Year Arizona: Law and Mexican-American Course

year arizona: Students in the Tucson Unified School District, which offered the Mexican-American course, launched protests and then sued, saying the law was too broad and infringed on their First Amendment rights, according to Metro News. The courts have upheld most of the law but are determining whether it was enacted with the intent to be discriminatory. Lawmakers dismantled the programs in a measure that passed in 2010, the same year Arizona approved its landmark immigration law known as SB1070. Tom Horne, a Republican and former state attorney general, testified at trial Tuesday that his battle against the program began in part after he visited a Tucson high school to watch an aide rebut prior statements by guest speaker Dolores Huerta, a well-known national labour and civil rights activist, that Republicans hate Latinos. The plaintiffs' attorney, Jim Quinn, questioned Horne about how he could come to conclusions about the program if he never visited a classroom. Some students taped their mouths and turned their back to Horne's aide, later walking out of the event with their fists in the air, which is a pretty extremist thing to do, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.