Have changes added new problems to SB 1070?

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by David Safier

Last night I wrote that the changes to SB 1070 created by a new bill defanged the legislation making it less vile than it was. But I admitted my lack of knowledge about the changes and said the jury is still out.

According to Think Progress, one change puts some of the teeth back into SB 1070 which the new bill was supposed to remove.

The new bill gets rid of the "lawful contact" language and substitutes "stop, detention or arrest." But according to the Think Progress piece, the new bill includes "language that will allow police to use city ordinance violations such as 'cars on blocks in the yard' as an excuse to 'initiate quieries' in light of the 'lawful contact' deletion."

And the changes came straight from Kris Korbach of the Immigration Reform Law Institute.

Here's an email from Korbach to Pearce reproduced in the Think Progress piece.


Kobachemail

The legalisms and the wording of the bill are way above my pay grade. I'm passing this information along so others can look at it more carefully.

(hat tip to BruceJ for passing along the link)

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3 thoughts on “Have changes added new problems to SB 1070?”

  1. I love SB1070, which is in fact the same as the current federal law except for specific wording against racial profiling! Every state should have such a law, until the federal government enfources the existing federal laws.

  2. “America needs tough and fair national immigration reform,” says Rep. Patterson but “not SB1070.” Why the heck not? What exactly is unfair about asking someone who doesn’t speak English, can’t produce a driver license or a social security card to prove their residency status. A portion of SB1070 is paraphrased here: For any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien unlawfully present in the United States a reasonable attempt shall be made when practicable to determine the persons immigration status. Tell me how that falls short of fair. Let me tell you what is not fair. Hard working, tax paying Americans are stuck paying for elected officials refusing to implement a sound, sensible, and secure immigration policy for fear of alienating themselves from the Hispanic vote.

  3. The changes in the trailer bill make SB1070 worse.

    AZ House Dems talked about this in committee and on the floor before Rs passed it. I voted no.

    America needs tough and fair national immigration reform, not SB1070.

    Rep. Daniel Patterson
    Tucson

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