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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST ARIZONA'S RACIAL PROFILING LAW

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST ARIZONA'S RACIAL PROFILING LAW National Immigration Law Center and Other Groups Also Challenging Law Laud Obama Administration's Action WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit today challenging Arizona's recently enacted racial profiling law, known as SB-1070. In taking this extraordinary action, the federal government has sent a clear message that it will not tolerate state laws that invite racial stereotyping and profiling and interfere with federal immigration priorities and policies. National Immigration Law Center, along with a coalition of leading rights groups, filed a lawsuit in May challenging the constitutionality of the law. The civil rights coalition includes the ACLU, MALDEF; the National Immigration Law Center (NILC); the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) - a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice; the ACLU of Arizona; the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON); and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).