Reuters: Arizona appeals immigrant law ruling amid protests
By Carolina Madrid and Tim Gaynor
PHOENIX | Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:09pm EDT
(Reuters) - Arizona on Thursday appealed a judge's decision to block key parts of the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants and police in Phoenix arrested scores of activists protesting the remaining measures in the law.
ARRESTED AT PROTEST
Police arrested at least 48 protesters after they blocked streets near a sheriff's office in the city center and the entrance to a jail.
A Reuters witness saw police dressed in riot gear arrest demonstrators, including an elderly female church minister. The protesters offered no resistance and police led them away in plastic handcuffs.
"We welcome the fact that the judge blocked some of the provisions in SB 1070 but ... we are continuing action to overturn the rest of the law, " said Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.