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ACLU Sues to Block Indiana Immigration Law

By Elizabeth Llorente

Published May 25, 2011

The ACLU of Indiana has filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to block the state's new immigration law.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of a new law in Indiana that targets undocumented immigrants.

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, challenges the law’s expansion of local police powers to include arresting – without probable cause -- immigrants who have been ordered deported and its making illegal the use of identification issued by foreign consulates.

The ACLU says the arrest provisions violate constitutional protections against arrest without probable cause. It also says that Indiana is overextending its constitutional bounds by regulating international affairs with the ID measure.

“Indiana has created a law that not only tramples on the constitutional rights of Hoosiers, but also improperly involves Indiana in areas that are clearly of federal, not state, concerns,” said Ken Falk, legal director of the ACLU of Indiana, in a statement on the organization’s website.

Mr. Falk? Falk you! 

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Obama and his cronies decided that it made them look bad to file the suit , like they did in Arizona, so they had the DEM lapdogs do their bidding this time.