By Jason Buch | mysanantonio.com
Three Texas cities have signed a brief supporting the Obama administration’s challenge of Arizona’s immigration law, set for argument before the Supreme Court next month, although San Antonio is absent from the list.
Laredo, Austin and Dallas joined nearly 50 cities, four of them from Arizona, and counties, as well as the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, in supporting a lawsuit that challenges sections of the controversial Senate Bill 1070.
An appeals court last year upheld a preliminary injunction blocking some sections of the law — those requiring police to check the immigration status of people they stop, detain or arrest; allowing police to arrest without a warrant someone suspected of being in the country illegally; and creating state crimes that punish those living and working in the country illegally — on the grounds that they trample on the federal government’s authority to enforce immigration laws.
