FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   April 27, 2025 Contact: press@luchaaz.org PHOENIX —  Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) strongly...

A Republican effort to boost President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign in Arizona and force schools to open their doors to ICE agents was shut down by Gov. Katie Hobbs, who wielded her veto pen to reject the plan on Friday.  “Arizonans, not Washington, DC politicians, must decide what’s best for Arizona,” the Democrat wrote in her veto letter of the Arizona ICE Act. Senate Bill 1164, named the Arizona Immigration Cooperation and Enforcement Act, would have mandated that every police

Danielle Lang, senior director of voting rights for Campaign Legal Center, which is representing many of the groups that sued, including Living United for Change in Arizona and the League of United Latin American Citizens, said that while DOJ’s withdrawal has no practical impact, it demonstrates the new administration’s “complete abandonment of even the most basic voting rights protections.”