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Originally Posted by Berkley
Maybe the AZ law will have the same fate as 187. I remember the mexican kids at school marched in protest, waving the Mexican Flag. Outrageous. They believed that the INS was going to tear their doors down and drag them out by force, and bus 'em to Tijuana.
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CA's Prop. 187 died because a Dem. Governor took office and dropped the appeals process. Since Arizona is also in the infamous Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, it may fare similarly unless someone can get it to the US Supreme Court.
I imagine that the AZ law was written with Prop. 187 in mind and doesn't carry all of the multi-bullet point baggage of the former. The language of AZ's SB:1070 makes constant appeal to the enforcement of Federal codes and places no burden upon local or statewide "benefits" plans.
Illegal aliens in AZ can still apply for government benefits, student loans and all of that. This new law doesn't even address that stuff. The CA Prop. was inspired in part by the "costs" that illegal aliens represented to state services, if I remember it correctly.