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: AFL-CIO NOW BLOGCourt Strikes Down Parts of Arizona?s Anti-Immigrant Law, but Not Racial Profiling Provision
By AFL-CIO
In a strongly worded 5-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today rejected most of Arizona?s controversial anti-immigrant law known as S.B. 1070. But the justices upheld a key portion that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), say is:
The law?s most dangerous provision, which gave the green light to discrimination and racial profiling.
Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on June 25, 2012 (boomark / email).
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