A federal appeals court backed up an Arizona law to punish employers that hire illegal immigrants.

Ninth Circuit upholds Arizona employer sanctions law

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stor ... ily34.html

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed lower court rulings that kept the Legal Arizona Workers Act in place. Business groups and Hispanic activists had challenged the law in court saying it lacks due process provisions and puts the state and county prosecutors in the federal role of enforcing immigration laws.

The sanctions law allows county prosecutors to go after businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants and employers caught doing that can have their business licenses suspended or revoked.

The San Francisco-based appeals court backed up a U.S. District Court ruling that said federal immigration laws allow states to take action against the business licenses of employers caught hiring illegals.

Link to the Court Ruling pdf.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

http://mcaodocuments.com/general_pdf/wa ... 080207.pdf