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Excerpted from “Arizona lawmakers modify immigration law; Legislators ban race from being used by police as a factor to identify illegal immigrants. The initial law allowed the use of race to form the suspicion but said it could not be the sole factor.” By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2010 | 10:27 a.m.
[SIZE="+2"]A[/SIZE]rizona lawmakers late Thursday narrowed a controversial immigration law signed last week by the governor in hopes of quelling a national firestorm over suggestions it will force police to racially profile Latinos while looking for illegal immigrants.
… The initial law forbade race from being used "solely" to form the suspicion but not from being a factor. Civil rights lawyers contended that it essentially legalized racial profiling.
In the final hours of their legislative session, after three federal lawsuits were filed contending the law is unconstitutional, lawmakers removed the word "solely," explicitly banning race from being used at all by police. …
My emphasis.
Seems like an improvement; but, is it enough?