Arizona v. United States
| Arizona v. United States | |
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| Argued April 25, 2012 Decided June 25, 2012 |
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| Full case name | Arizona, et al., Petitioners v. United States |
| Docket nos. | 11-182 |
| Citations | 567 U.S. ___ (more) |
| Argument | Oral argument |
| Opinion announcement | Opinion announcement |
| Prior history | Injunction against Arizona, 703 F.Supp.2d 980 (D. Ariz., 2010); affirmed and remanded, 641 F.3d 339 (9th Cir., 2011); certiorari granted ___ U.S. ___ |
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| An Arizona law providing authority for local law enforcement to enforce immigration law violated the enumerated powers of Congress and is pre-empted by federal statute. Arizona law enforcement may inquire about a resident's legal status during lawful encounters, but may not implement its own immigration rules. Ninth Circuit affirmed and reversed in part. | |
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| Majority | Kennedy, joined by Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor |
| Concur/dissent | Scalia |
| Concur/dissent | Thomas |
| Concur/dissent | Alito |
| Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 4, U.S. Const. art. VI, cl. 2 | |
Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. ___ (2012), was a United States Supreme Court case involving Arizona's S.B. 1070, a state law intended to increase the powers of local law enforcement who wished to enforce federal immigration laws. At issue is whether the law usurps the federal government's authority to regulate immigration laws and enforcement. The Court ruled that sections 3, 5(C), and 6 of S. B. 1070 were preempted by federal law, but left other parts of the law intact, including a provision that allowed law enforcement to investigate a person's immigration status.
On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law SB 1070, which supporters dubbed the "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act". The act made it a state misdemeanor crime for an illegal immigrant to be in Arizona without carrying registration documents required by federal law, authorizes state and local law enforcement of federal immigration laws, and penalized those found to be knowingly sheltering, hiring and transporting illegal immigrants.
The bill's passage immediately sparked constitutional concerns over potential civil rights violations and have accused it of encouraging racial profiling. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the law in over 70 U.S. cities on May 1, 2010 (International Workers' Day). A rally in Los Angeles, attended by Cardinal Mahony of the Roman Catholic Church, attracted between 50,000 and 60,000 people, with protesters waving Mexican flags and chanting "Sí se puede". The city had become the national epicenter of protests against the Arizona law. Around 25,000 people were at a protest in Dallas and more than 5,000 were in Chicago and Milwaukee, while rallies in other cities generally attracted around a thousand people or so. There and in some other locations, demonstrators expressed frustration with what they saw as the administration's lack of action on immigration reform, with signs holding messages such as "Hey Obama! Don't deport my mama."
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