Amy Goodman
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Obama Admin Challenges AZ Anti-Immigrant Law While Pushing Unprecedented Mass Deportations
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April 26, 2012
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14:18Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - We get an update from Colorlines.com reporter Seth Freed Wessler about hearings Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona's notorious anti-immigrant law known as S.B. 1070. The case could have implications for a half-dozen other states that passed similar measures which are now on hold pending its outcome. "The question on the table in the Court yesterday was what the states are allowed to do, but the question that lots of people have on the ground is, what's Obama going to do?" says Wessler. "The administration has deported more people than ever before — 400,000 people." Based on their line of questioning, justices across the ideological spectrum appeared reluctant to strike down the provision. Should the court uphold any part of the law, civil rights groups plan to challenge it on grounds that it discriminates on the basis of race and ethnic background. "The bottom line: They don't really understand the extent to which this law goes deeper and really impacts the lives of people who are living here, not just those who are undocumented, but those who have been here for three or four generations who are of Latino background who are being stopped and harassed and detained," says activist Randy Parraz of Citizens for a Better Arizona.
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