{"id":400,"date":"2010-07-28T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T17:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=400"},"modified":"2010-07-28T13:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T17:52:58","slug":"you-cant-do-that-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Do THAT, Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swooping in at the very last moment, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100728\/ap_on_re_us\/us_arizona_immigration\" target=\"_blank\">federal judge Susan Boltan blocked portions of Arizona&#8217;s controversial immigration law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The overall law will still take effect Thursday, but without the  provisions that angered opponents \u2014 including sections that required  officers to check a person&#8217;s immigration status while enforcing other laws.<\/p>\n<p>The judge also put on hold parts of the law that  required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it  illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what prompted the Feds to step in and pull the stops on Arizona from implementing it&#8217;s new law at Midnight, tonight?\u00a0 According to the federal judge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;By enforcing this statute, Arizona would impose a &#8216;distinct, unusual  and extraordinary&#8217; burden on legal resident aliens that only the federal  government has the authority to impose.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, Arizona&#8230; only our FEDERAL government can impose &#8220;distinct, unusual, and extraordinary&#8221; burdens on us!\u00a0 So just back off!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swooping in at the very last moment, federal judge Susan Boltan blocked portions of Arizona&#8217;s controversial immigration law. The overall law will still take effect Thursday, but without the provisions that angered opponents \u2014 including sections that required officers to check a person&#8217;s immigration status while enforcing other laws. The judge also put on hold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[172,135],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandon-all-hope","tag-arizona","tag-laws"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}