AZ Immigration Hearing: Court Asked To Block ‘Harboring’ Ban

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco

The Associated Press reports that the State of Arizona is at it again.

This time the State’s legal arm, along with Gov. Jan Brewer, is defending itself against the federal government that seeks to block a part Arizona’s 2010 immigration law that  outlaws the “harboring” of undocumented immigrants. The feds say that part of the law should be blocked; the state, and Brewer, argue that the “harboring” section doesn’t conflict with federal policies and that there’s no evidence that it has hurt the people who have challenged the law in court.

In July of 2010 a federal judge barred local enforcement of that portion of the law. That’s when this appeal got underway.

At stake is the risk of criminalizing the act of giving aid or shelter to an undocumented person in Arizona.

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