Groups want to block portions of immigration law

KOLD.com
January 8, 2011
PHOENIX, AZ

A federal judge who already blocked the most controversial portions of Arizona's new immigration law from taking effect is now being asked to put on hold two other elements of the law.

Civil rights groups asked U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on Friday to prevent authorities from enforcing the law's ban on blocking traffic when people seek or offer day-labor services on the streets.

The groups argue the ban is an unconstitutional restriction on free-speech rights of day laborers to express their need and availability to work in a public place.

Bolton let the ban take effect, but put on hold another day-labor provision in the law that prohibits illegal immigrants from seeking work in public.

Gov. Jan Brewer has appealed Bolton's ruling.

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