LOS ANGELES (YBH) – A 28 page friend of the court brief was filed in Federal court today on behalf of the Mexican government. Arizona attorney Albert M. Flores was joined by powerfully-connected Washington law firm Dewey and LeBouef requesting standing in the case, and seeking to join the United States Department of Justice lawsuit against the State of Arizona over their new immigration enforcement measure.
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Co-authored by former U.S. Attorney for Colorado Henry Solano, the brief’s argument rests on several points, in part, ” Mexico seeks to ensure that its bilateral diplomatic relations with the United States of America are transparent, consistent and reliable, and not frustrated by individual U.S. states’ actions, in particular the Arizona Defendants herein. SB 1070 substantially impacts Mexico, its officials and citizens, by inappropriately burdening the uniform and predictable sovereign-to-sovereign relations, opening the door to divergent requirements among the different states, and with respect to the national government.”
The brief also lays out concerns about racial profiling in the application of the law, language which has since been adjusted by Arizona lawmakers.
According to the Dewey and LeBouef website, as much as they broker complex international and domestic business deals, they also have an active pro bono arm which focuses on issues of poverty and homelessness. In particular, their website promises, “All DC office summer associates have the opportunity to work at a DC-based public interest organization or to do client development in a developing country”. A look at their “Client Alerts” notes their additional specialty in climate change energy policy domestically and abroad.
Arizona’s law empowering police in their dealings with potential illegal immigrants within their borders has raised a firestorm in D.C. and flyover country. Though the state law is actually less harsh than the Federal equivalent, enforcement of immigration laws has been lax for decades due to a complex set of economic and social forces.
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