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Staying put in Arizona after the immigration

law: Not all undocumented immigrants

joined the exodus

By Liz Goodwin

National Affairs Reporter

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Hundreds of immigrants protesters on the one-year anniversary of SB1070. (P Photo!"oss #.$ran%lin&

Eri%a ndiola still remem'ers the day riona)s tough anti-illegal immigration 'ill* %no+n as

SB1070* passed. She had 'een protesting outside the state ,apitol for days* sleeping on the

ground and fasting* +hen the +ord spread through the ,ro+d. She got a ,all from her mother*+ho* li%e ndiola* is undo,umented. She told her daughter not to move 'e,ause she +as afraid

she +ould get ta%en a+ay 'y the poli,e and deported.

here +as a moment of pani, +here people heard on the ne+s that it /passed 'ut didn)t %no++hat +as going to happen* ndiola says. y family didn)t go to +or% the net t+o days

'e,ause they thought there +ere going to 'e poli,e outside the door.

he la+* +hi,h +as 'lo,%ed 'y a federal 3udge and +hi,h the Supreme 4ourt +ill revie+ in oral

arguments 5ednesday morning* re6uired lo,al poli,e to as% a'out immigration status during

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stops in some ,ases. ver the net fe+ months* a'out 10 of the 80 or so young undo,umented

a,tivists +ith +hom ndiola protested moved to other states. 5hole apartment ,omplees

emptied out. here +ere neigh'orhoods that +ere literally gone* she says.

nd that +as ea,tly the point* at least from the perspe,tive of those supporting the la+9

undo,umented immigrants +ere en,ouraged to leave. ,,ording to government figures* theillegal immigrant population in riona shran% to :;0*000 last year* +hi,h means 200*000 have

left sin,e 200


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federal ,ourt 'lo,%ed the la+ and rpaio +as already ,lamping do+n on a lot of the things the

la+ sought to enfor,e any+ay.

Cat "odrigue* +ho leads the 4oali,iDn de #ere,hos Humanos advo,a,y group in u,son* saysshe hasn)t seen the same improvement sin,e the la+ passed. SB1070 has fostered a ,limate of

fear in the 'order to+n* even though it never +ent into effe,t* she says. here)s 'een so mu,hem'oldened ,olla'oration 'et+een 'order ,ontrol and poli,e* she says. 5hat +e hear from

undo,umented people is that other than going to +or%* getting our %ids to s,hool* gettinggro,eries and may'e ,hur,h* +e don)t leave our houses. heir lives have ,hanged dramati,ally.

Supreme Court takes up Arizona

immigration law

By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press – 16 mins ago

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