“A federal judge Wednesday temporarily blocked key parts of Arizona’s new immigration law on the eve of implementation…
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton granted the Obama administration’s
request for a preliminary injunction on the grounds that immigration
enforcement is the responsibility of the federal government, not
states…
…[Judge Bolton] blocked a requirement that police check the
immigration status of people stopped for such routine infractions as
traffic violations, if police suspect they are in the U.S. illegally…
[and] a section that required law enforcement to detain individuals
until their legal status was clarified…
She also blocked a section that required foreigners to carry
documents proving they had permission to be in the U.S., and another
provision that banned illegal immigrants from seeking work in Arizona.”