Arizona, USA, launches more tolerant immigration law guidelines

Arizona, USA, launches more tolerant immigration law guidelines The Arizona Attorney's Office last Thursday (September 15, 2016) reached a settlement with immigrant rights groups on the state's...

The Arizona Attorney's Office last Thursday (September 15, 2016) reached a settlement with immigrant rights groups on some controversial provisions of the state's immigration law, requiring law enforcement officers not to extend the questioning time or detain the other person simply because they suspect someone is an illegal immigrant.

According to the "Christian Science Monitor", Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced this informal opinion on Thursday, placing restrictions on the state's law enforcement officers' approach to suspected illegal immigrants, requiring law enforcement officers not to conclude that someone does not have legal immigration status or even detain the person because they suspect that he or she may be an illegal resident.

Brnovich said the purpose of reaching this agreement with immigrant rights groups is to find a reasonable solution and protect the rights of taxpayers in the state, while moving Arizona forward.

According to the state's SB 1070 bill passed in 2010, if local law enforcement officers have reasonable grounds to suspect that a person may be an illegal immigrant, he must check the person's immigration status.

At that time, Arizona passed SB 1070 amid fears among state residents that illegal immigration could lead to an increase in drug trafficking and take away jobs from locals.

As part of Thursday's settlement, prosecutors Brnovich released a guideline that has not yet become legally binding: Law enforcement officers cannot extend the detention or detention of a person or arrest him solely for the purpose of verifying a person's immigration status. At the same time, law enforcement officers cannot use the other party's ethnicity and nationality as the basis for suspecting the other party, unless these are characteristics of a certain criminal suspect. When necessary, law enforcement officers can still ask the other party to produce his or her ID, but this is no longer a legal requirement.

>SB 1070 passed the Arizona House of Representatives by 35:21 in 2010 and the Senate by 17:11. Most people believe that the provisions of this bill are reasonable, but there are also criticisms that the bill involves federal law enforcement authority and may bring about racial discrimination.

> Editor: Ye Ziwei