By Scott Harvey
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Commerce – Arizona's controversial immigration law was the topic of discussion during the latest Diversity in Dialogue event held Wednesday on the A&M-Commerce campus.
The program's Guest speaker, Victoria Neave, is an attorney with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) National Civil Rights Commission.
Neave provided information on the Arizona law, plus other immigration guidelines and similar cases to the Arizona law from years past.
Participants expressed annoyance over the law's requirement that legal citizens carry their registration documents at all times plus questioned what happens to legally born children whose parents get deported.
You can hear Neave's full presentation above.
Arizona is appealing a ruling that arose out of a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department that put parts of that State's new immigration law on hold. Gov. Jan Brewer has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reverse the ruling.
Her lawyers say a judge erred by accepting speculation that the law might burden legal immigrants and by concluding that the federal government would likely prevail.
Justice Department attorneys argue that the law that was designed to draw local police into the fight against illegal immigration is disrupting the United States' relations with Mexico and other countries and that the state law is trumped by federal law.