i did some research about the arizona law and the language is a bit complicated for me...
can someone help me understand each one of the numbers?
As explained in more detail below, SB 1070, as amended by HB 2162:
1. prohibits state and local law enforcement from restricting the enforcement of federal immigration laws;
2. requires law enforcement, in making a lawful stop, detention, or arrest for another law, to make a reasonable attempt to determine the person's immigration status where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is not lawfully present in the country;
3. creates a new misdemeanor offense for the willful failure to complete or carry an immigrant registration document under certain circumstances;
4. authorizes a peace officer involved in enforcement related to human smuggling to lawfully stop anyone in a motor vehicle on reasonable suspicion that the person is violating a civil traffic law;
5. creates misdemeanor offenses, in certain circumstances, for (a) stopping to hire and pick up passengers for work while blocking traffic, (b) getting hired in such a fashion, and (c) applying for or soliciting work while unlawfully present in the country;
6. creates misdemeanor offenses (or felonies if 10 or more illegal immigrants are involved) for unlawfully transporting or concealing an illegal immigrant or encouraging one to enter or remain in the country illegally;
7. authorizes a peace officer to arrest a person without a warrant on probable cause that the person has committed a public offense that makes the person removable from the country;
8. requires employers to keep employee eligibility records for three years or the duration of employment, whichever is longer;
9. allows employers to raise an affirmative defense of entrapment to a charge of knowingly or intentionally employing unauthorized immigrants;
10. adds to the list of reasons a peace officer must remove and either immobilize or impound a vehicle; and
11. makes other changes.

