Arizona Immigration Law Controversy

An article recently published in The New York Times addresses an Arizona law recently passed that "requires police officers to check the papers of people they stop or arrest if suspicious of their immigration status." The Obama administration has filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona to preemptively protect legal citizens from being swept up in Arizona's enforcement. Arizona's argument suggests that the Government has no grounds for issuing this lawsuit because there are no examples prosecutors can point to of legal citizens whose lives were disrupted by this law. However, this law has not been placed into effect yet which is why it is a matter of preemptive action.

This article is important because it involves US citizens right to freedom from discrimination.