The U.S. Justice Department has officially filed suit against the state of Arizona. Arizona’s new immigration law, officially titled the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act and more commonly known as SB 1070, is under heavy fire for being unconstitutional. Weighing in is Lydia Camarillo, Vice President of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project.

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Maria also spoke with Evan Perez, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

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Read more about the Justice Department’s suit here.

From California, we hear two tales from Story Corps Historias, a cross-country project documenting and archiving the stories of everyday people.

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