By Jerry Markon and Anne E. KornblutWashington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 29, 2010
Officials in the Obama administration are urging the extraordinary step of suing Arizona over its new immigration law, and the Justice Department is considering such an action to block the legislation from taking effect, government officials said Wednesday.
The Arizona law criminalizes illegal immigration by defining it as trespassing and empowers police to question anyone they have a "reasonable suspicion" is an illegal immigrant. President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. have blasted the legislation, with Obama saying that it "threatened to undermine basic notions of fairness."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/28/AR2010042805838.html
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