Arizona's approach is reasonable, constitutional

Washington, DC - Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-TX) issued the following statement in response to a lawsuit filed today by the ACLU, MALDEF, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and others challenging Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. 

Ranking Member Smith:  “The special interest groups who filed suit to stop enforcement of our immigration laws are on the wrong side of the American people.  When you peel back the inflammatory rhetoric and the baseless accusations made those who filed this lawsuit, you find that Arizona has taken a reasonable, constitutional approach to dealing with a problem that the federal government hasn’t.  The groups who filed this suit have no interest in reducing illegal immigration.”