By Jennifer Allen
Special to the Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.02.2009

A new Arizona law recently went into effect that requires state and local employees who provide federal public benefits to not only verify the identity and immigration status of applicants for services, but also to report "discovered" immigration law violations to federal immigration authorities.

If an employee doesn't file a report or a supervisor doesn't require employees to do so, they can be charged with a criminal offense. Furthermore, any individual can file a lawsuit against an employee, agency or even city or town that is suspected of not reporting to immigration authorities.

This law is ill-conceived and, most likely, unconstitutional.

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