Politico and CNN have reported that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a legal challenge in a federal court in Phoenix today challenging Arizona’s controversial immigration-enforcement law that is scheduled to go into effect July 28. The law requires police officers to ask about the immigration status of suspected undocumented immigrants involved in a “lawful stop, detention, or arrest.”
I wrote last month for Education Week about how this law might affect undocumented students in schools depending on how school police officers would carry it out.