Arizona's ICE-at-polls bill is dead for now, but backers can revive it
People packed into an Arizona Senate Committee room on Friday, waiting hours to protest a Republican plan to station federal immigration officers at Arizona polling places in November.
But those protestors were disappointed when the measure was suddenly spiked at the end of the six-hour meeting because its sponsor was ill, according to Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee Chairwoman Wendy Rogers.
The failure to hear the bill in the committee on Friday likely kills the specific piece of legislation, though the idea is likely to be resurrected. Friday was the deadline for legislative committees to consider legislation in its chamber of origin. But there are parliamentary moves that allow proposals that failed to be revived.
The news that Senate Bill1570 wouldn’t be heard came after numerous members of the protest group, organized by Living United for Change in Arizona, were denied entry to the Senate with little explanation in a move that LUCHA said was blatantly racist.
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