Follow on Bill to AZ 1070...Clarification

Here is the link to the updated version of 1070, also known as 2162.

http://www.azleg.gov/alispdfs/council/SB1070-HB2162.PDF

The bold and italicized text is the added text. Here are some of the changes for those who do not want to read the entire bill:

"FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT (Contact was crossed out for...) STOP, DETENTION OR ARREST MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OF A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF ANY OTHER LAW OR ORDINANCE OF A COUNTY, CITY OR TOWN OR THIS STATE (This was added) WHERE REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN WHO AND IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES, A REASONABLE ATTEMPT SHALL BE MADE, WHEN PRACTICABLE, TO DETERMINE THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF THE PERSON, EXCEPT IF THE DETERMINATION MAY HINDER OR OBSTRUCT AN INVESTIGATION."

The other "controversial" part of the bill where everyone said racial profiling was inevitable looks like this:

"A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE MAY NOT SOLELY (This was crossed out) CONSIDER RACE, COLOR OR NATIONAL ORIGIN IN IMPLEMENTING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBSECTION EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ARIZONA CONSTITUTION."

So there is a brief look at 1070 and the follow on 2162. Soon we will look at AZ 2281, the bill said to be direct assault on ethnic studies, but is it really that cut and dry? Here is the link so you can read it before we discuss it again.

http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/hb2281h.pdf

To question intolerably is to question righteously.

-FFvsPub