The Arizona Attorney General’s Office says a Phoenix policy restricting ICE’s ability to use city property conforms with the infamous state law SB 1070, which was gutted by the courts. What remains requires cities to not limit immigration enforcement.
The Phoenix regulation at issue means that, without preapproval from the city manager, ICE is banned from using certain city property as an operation base, to stage units and to process people arrested.
A state lawmaker claimed that this conflicts with Arizona law against restricting federal immigration enforcement.
Now the attorney general says SB 1070 prohibits cities from limiting that enforcement, but it does not require cooperation beyond what federal law demands.
The attorney general also says cities can constitutionally restrict federal government access to property.
Read the report from AG's office
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