Arizona Rewrites Immigration Law To Prevent Racial Profiling

Arizona Rewrites Immigration Law to Prevent Racial Profiling

Arizona lawmakers have approved several changes to the recently passed sweeping law targeting illegal immigration. One change to the bill strengthens restrictions against using race or ethnicity as the basis for questioning and inserts those same restrictions in other parts of the law.

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