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   Obama administration poised to challenge Arizona immigration law   
      
   The White House is expected to file a lawsuit next week. Arizona has    
   raised more than $120,000 in private donations to defend the    
   legislation.   
      
   By Peter Nicholas, Tribune Washington Bureau   
       
   June 26, 2010   
      
   Reporting from Washington — A White House showdown with the state of    
   Arizona over its tough new immigration law is likely to unfold next    
   week, when the Obama administration is expected to file a lawsuit aimed    
   at blocking the state's bid to curb illegal immigration on its own,    
   according to people familiar with the administration's plans.   
      
   Arizona officials are girding for the legal challenge. The state has    
   raised $123,000 in private donations to defend the law, according to    
   Gov. Jan Brewer's office. Money has come in from all 50 states, in    
   donations as little as $1.   
      
   Obama administration officials declined to reveal the basis for the    
   suit. But legal experts say the challenge is likely to include the    
   argument that in passing the law, Arizona violated the Constitution by    
   intruding on the federal government's authority to regulate immigration.   
      
   To date, the state has been hit with five lawsuits. The law, SB 1070,    
   was signed in April and is scheduled to go into effect July 29.   
      
   By confronting Arizona, the Obama administration would be making a    
   political statement as much as a legal one. Obama has already criticized   
   the Arizona law as "misdirected." Criminal action against illegal    
   immigrants is not, by itself, a satisfactory solution to the nation's    
   dysfunctional immigration system, the White House says.   
      
   Obama has said that part of the remedy must include a path to legal    
   status for the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally.   
   But with mid-term elections approaching, the president has not made the    
   politically explosive issue a legislative priority for 2010.   
      
   Brewer and other Republican officials have recoiled at the prospect of a   
   federal suit.   
      
   "Perhaps the administration should focus on getting the assets they    
   promised to the border region rather than wasting time and taxpayer    
   dollars on suing the state of Arizona," said Brooke Buchanan, a    
   spokeswoman for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).   
      
   The Obama administration tipped its hand on its plans earlier this month   
   when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an Ecuadoran    
   television interview that a lawsuit was coming. Outraged, Brewer said    
   the administration should "inform us before it informs the citizens of    
   another nation."   
      
   The Arizona law empowers police, after making a lawful stop, to verify    
   the immigration status of people they reasonably suspect are in the    
   country illegally.   
      
   Opponents warn that the law could be easily abused — enforced in a    
   fashion that unfairly targets Latinos.   
      
   Lucas Guttentag, director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project and an    
   attorney who is part of a group of civil rights organizations contesting   
   the law, said: "A legal challenge by the Justice Department would help    
   ensure that Arizona's renegade state law, which will cause racial    
   profiling and undermine effective law enforcement, does not actually go    
   into effect."   
      
   peter.nicholas@latimes.com    
      
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