Judge blocks Arizona immigration law's day labor rules (Reuters)
Cites First Amendment issue, an interesting and astute take, imo ~ pinto
Judge blocks Arizona immigration law's day labor rules
By Tim Gaynor
PHOENIX | Thu Mar 1, 2012 8:40am EST
(Reuters) - A federal judge blocked Arizona on Wednesday from enforcing a part of the state's immigration law that prohibits vehicle occupants from stopping traffic to pick up day laborers waiting for work.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, in issuing a preliminary injunction, ruled that plaintiffs seeking to overturn the law were "likely to succeed on the merits of their claim" that the rules violate the First Amendment.
Arizona's Republican Governor Jan Brewer passed the state's tough immigration law in April 2010, seeking to clamp down on illegal immigrants in the Mexico border state.
The section of the controversial law Bolton blocked on Wednesday sought to target people who employ migrant workers in the country illegally, many of whom gather in store parking lots and on curbsides in Phoenix to tout for work.
The non-profit National Day Laborer Organizing Network, which was a plaintiff in the suit, hailed the ruling.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/01/us-immigration-arizona-judge-idUSTRE82006F20120301?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews