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IPFS News Link • Immigration

Supreme Court Upholds Arizona’s Anti-Immigration “Business Death Penalty”

• Reason / Damon Root
The Supreme Court handed down a major immigration ruling today in the case of Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting. At issue was the Legal Arizona Workers Act, a controversial state law that requires all Arizona employers to confirm the legal status of their workers via E-Verify, the federal electronic verification system. Under the law, the state may impose draconian penalties, including the loss of business licenses, on those firms that hire unauthorized aliens.

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