Susan Bolton: Immigration Status

Bolton Dept: The ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton clears the way for police to carry out the 2010 law s requirement that officers, while enforcing other laws, question the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally, according to The Chronicle Herald. Opponents then asked Bolton to block the requirement, arguing that it would lead to systematic racial profiling and unreasonably long detentions of Latinos if it s enforced and pHOENIX A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Arizona authorities can enforce the most contentious section of the state s immigration law, which critics have dubbed the show me your papers provision. The requirement has been at the centre of a two-year legal battle that culminated in a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June upholding the requirement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.