Lawmaker Who Wrote Arizona Immigration Law Intervenes in Obama Administration Lawsuit

Friday, July 23, 2010
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – The author of the Arizona immigration law filed a court motion to stop the federal government’s effort to prevent the law from going into effect on July 29.

In April, Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill to codify federal immigration law into state law. However, the Obama administration filed a lawsuit on July 6 calling the law unconstitutional, contending that only the federal government can enforce immigration rules.

That’s not the case, said Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, author of the law and chairman of the appropriations committee.

“As I’ve said all along, SB 1070 makes no new immigration law, it simply enforces the laws already on the books,â€