Judge upholds Arizona's 'show your papers' immigration law -- Reuters / US

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Judge upholds Arizona's 'show your papers' immigration law

Reuters / US
Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Marguerita Choy
9/6/2015

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A federal judge has upheld part of Arizona's contentious immigration law, rejecting claims that the so-called "show your papers" section of the law discriminated against Hispanics.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on Friday was on the last of seven challenges to the 2010 law. The section being upheld allows police in Arizona to check the immigration status of anyone they stop.

Bolton ruled that immigration rights activists failed to show that police would enforce the law differently for Hispanics than other people. The section is sometimes called the "show your papers" provision.

The judge also upheld a section that let police check to see if a detainee is in the United States illegally. Bolton voided any laws targeting day laborers.
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Bolton's ruling came two days after a federal judge approved a deal between the U.S. Department of Justice and Arizona's Maricopa County to resolve accusations of civil rights abuses and dismissed the department's lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his deputies.

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Judge OKs settlement resolving racial profiling lawsuit against Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio

Fox News Lation
9/5/2015

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PHOENIX (AP) – A judge has approved a nearly two-month-old settlement ending a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department that alleged several civil rights violations against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office.

U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver officially signed off this week on the agreement that resolves allegations Arpaio's office retaliated against its critics, discriminated against Latinos during the sheriff's now-defunct workplace raids and punished Latino jail inmates with limited English skills for speaking Spanish.

As part of the settlement, the sheriff's office agreed to establish policies barring retaliation and rules that would govern any future workplace raids if Arpaio were to resume them.

The Justice Department focused in part on allegations Arpaio's office retaliated against county officials and judges who were at odds with him in political and legal disputes from 2007 until 2010.

The agency arrested two county officials and a judge on corruption charges that quickly collapsed in court. The county agreed to pay $8.7 million to settle lawsuits by people who said they were investigated on trumped-up allegations. Arpaio contended he was trying to root out corruption in county government.

Arpaio raided dozens of businesses from 2008 through mid-2014 in busts that led to the arrests of more than 700 immigrants who were charged with using fake or stolen IDs to get jobs.

Nine months ago, Arpaio voluntarily stopped the raids, shortly before a judge barred county officials from enforcing two laws that were the legal underpinning of the raids, which were Arpaio's last major foothold in immigration enforcement.

Even with the settlement, the Justice Department is continuing its legal efforts against Arpaio. The federal agency recently joined a separate racial profiling lawsuit that was pressed against the sheriff's office by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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