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The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (introduced as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and commonly referred to as Arizona SB 1070) is a 2010 legislative Act in the U.S. state of Arizona that was the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration law in the United States when passed. [2]
On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law SB 1070, which supporters dubbed the "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act". [1] It made it a state misdemeanor for an illegal immigrant to be in Arizona without carrying registration documents required by federal law; authorized state and local law enforcement of federal immigration laws; and penalized those ...
Under Arizona SB 1070, passed in 2010, it is a state misdemeanor for immigrants not to carry their immigration documents on their person while in Arizona, and people who are stopped or arrested by state police for any reason may be subject to verification of their immigration status.
Citing Congress' failure to enforce U.S. immigration laws, the state of Arizona confronted reform and on April 23, 2010, Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (Arizona SB 1070)-- the broadest and strictest immigration reform imposed in the United States. [30]
In April 2010, Arizona passed SB 1070, at the time the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration bill in the United States. [142] and was challenged by the Department of Justice as encroaching on powers reserved by the United States Constitution to the Federal Government. [142]
Enacted in 2010, SB 1070 was described as the toughest illegal immigration law in the U.S. [80] Portions of SB 1070 were held by the Supreme Court to be preempted by federal law in 2012. [81] Bills similar to SB 1070 were passed in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, and Utah, and have been introduced in 17 other states. [15]
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SB 1070 mandated that police check the residency status of anyone they suspect to be an undocumented immigrant, and it made it a crime for non-citizens to be in Arizona without carrying residency paperwork. [33] SB 1070 received national media attention and was the subject of major protests as it went to Brewer for her to sign.