Ruling Against Arizona Is a Warning for Other States

Although Judge Bolton’s ruling is not final, it seems likely to halt, at least temporarily, an expanding movement by states to combat illegal immigration by making it a state crime to be an immigrant without legal documents and by imposing new requirements on state and local police officers to enforce immigration law. Full Story »

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Kristin Gorski
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by Kristin Gorski - Jul. 29, 2010

The article's tone is part editorial, part news, and this creates a lack of clarity. It would have been much stronger if it focused solely on analyzing Judge Bolton's ruling, through the decision's wording and outside legal scholars like immigration law professor Peter Schuck at Yale, who is mentioned once briefly but whose comment alludes to a larger, more significant picture.

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