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• Arizona preparing appeal of immigration ruling
  Jul 29, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  But the key sponsor of Arizona's law, Republican Rep. About 100 protesters in Mexico City who had gathered at the U.S. Embassy broke into applause when they learned of the ruling via a laptop computer.
• Can Arizona's immigration law be stopped?
  Jul 29, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  The Obama administration, for example, has decided that the government should target employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants and illegal immigrants who commit crimes. Employers have hired illegal immigrants with impunity for generations. And even as it has ignored illegal immigration, the government has also made it increasingly difficult to immigrate legally from some countries.
• EDITORIAL
  Jul 29, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  Its local law enforcement agencies already lead the nation in turning over illegal immigrants to federal authorities, and that will probably continue. But in the end, neither Arizona nor any other state will be able to arrest its way out of a problem that requires concerted, comprehensive congressional action. That's why the appropriate response to the injunction is for the frustrated public -- in and outside of Arizona -- to hold the federal government to its word.
• First blood in the immigration battle
  Jul 29, 2010 — Washington Post
  Those that pass will prompt more lawsuits, and an even messier patchwork of state-by-state immigration enforcement. Some Democrats, seeing a strategic chance to lock up Hispanic votes virtually forever, will fight back gleefully. The rationale for a federal resolution will only grow stronger.
• GOP says Ariz. ruling will hurt Dems
  Jul 29, 2010 — Politico
  She also blocked a section of the law that would make it a state crime to be in the U.S. without valid documents. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican who signed the legislation into law in April, pledged to take the case to the Supreme Court.
• Immigration demonstrations kick off in Arizona
  Jul 29, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  ...illegal immigrants. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was expected to demonstrate one of them later Thursday by launching one of his controversial "sweeps," in which his deputies fan out through immigrant neighborhoods, stopping people for sometimes minor infractions and checking their immigration status. In an unusual light drizzle Thursday, the marchers left the Capitol bearing images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, en route to a church service. Channtal Polanco, 19, is one of...
• Immigration ruling could send message to states
  Jul 29, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  The blueprint is constitutionally flawed." Gov. Jan Brewer called Wednesday's decision "a bump in the road" and vowed to appeal. The key sponsor of Arizona's law, Republican Rep.
• Injunction puts parts of Arizona's SB 1070 on hold
  Jul 29, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  But in the end, neither Arizona nor any other state will be able to arrest its way out of a problem that requires concerted, comprehensive congressional action. That's why the appropriate response to the injunction is for the frustrated public _ in and outside of Arizona _ to hold the federal government to its word.
• Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law
  Jul 29, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  The governor, the law's authors and anti-illegal immigration groups vowed to fight on. "It's a temporary bump in the road," Gov. Jan Brewer said. The key issue before U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton in the case is as old as the nation itself: Does federal law trump state law? Those jurisdictions are commonly known as "sanctuary cities." "Striking down these sanctuary city policies has always been the No. 1 priority," said Republican Sen.
• Lawmakers react to Arizona immigration ruling
  Jul 29, 2010 — USA Today
  John McCain, R-Ariz., told Fox News. "Rather than wasting their time on all this court stuff…give us the assets necessary to get our border secure." Rep. David Vitter, a Republican, vowed to "keep up efforts to protect rights to govern as a state." Rep. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other congressional leaders have discussed taking up immigration legislation, but it's not clear how much attention the issue will receive in Congress before the November midterm election.
• Ariz. sheriff: I'll jail immigration protesters
  Jul 28, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  ...immigration law takes effect. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that if protesters want to block his jail, he'll put them in it. The Arizona law, which takes effect Thursday, requires officers enforcing other laws to check a person's immigration status if they suspect the person is in the country illegally. Arpaio told ABC's "Good Morning America" he doesn't know "what the big hype is." He says it's "a crime to be here illegally and everyone should enforce" the...
• Arizona helped deport thousands without new law
  Jul 28, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  His office has continued to do immigration sweeps. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reimburses some of the local agencies for housing immigrants in their jails. The Sheriff's Office's agreement with the federal government allows it to check its jails for deportable immigrants, but not to enforce immigration laws during street patrols.