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Appeals court upholds ‘Secure the Border Act’ that jails border crossers
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The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld Proposition 314, the 2024 voter-approved law making it a misdemeanor to cross the state's border outside an official port of entry, rejecting a challenge that argued the measure illegally omitted a funding source. The three-judge panel reasoned that because local agencies or the federal government might absorb the costs of housing, transporting and vetting immigrants, the state itself isn't technically required to spend anything.
LUCHA, the immigrant rights group behind the suit, called the ruling out of touch and is weighing an appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court. The court also brushed aside concerns that the law's vague 'other constitutionally sufficient indicia of probable cause' standard invites racial profiling, saying no one had shown it happening yet.
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Telling a state the law doesn't cost it money because somebody else, a county, a federal database, gets to eat the bill instead is the kind of arithmetic that only works if you never have to sit in the room where the invoice arrives. It's like insisting the fence repair is free because you're pretty sure the neighbor will pay for the lumber. The court found no proof of profiling yet, which is a curious standard to apply before the law's even had a full year to try.
