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WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court, in a mixed opinion with several dissents, affirmed the section of an Arizona immigration law that requires state law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of detainees who they suspect are in the country illegally.
>>>With Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration, I express gratitude and hope now that the justices of the United States Supreme Court have struck down the provisions of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 that would have allowed "warrantless arrests of people suspected of an offense that is deportable, that would have made it a crime to seek work in the state and that would have made undocumented presence a state crime."
>>>Expreso mi gratitud y esperanzas, junto al Arzobispo José Gómez de Los Ángeles, quien funge como presidente del comité migratorio de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos, de que ahora la justicia de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos ha detenido la propuesta del Senado de Arizona 1070 que permitiría que "se emitieran arrestos de personas por ofensas y que serían deportadas, lo que hubiera hecho que el buscar trabajo en el estado fuera un crimen y que hubiera hecho que la presencia de indocumentados fuera un crimen estatal".
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