Happy Cinco de Mayo, Utah! NILC and ACLU File Lawsuit Challenging Utah Immigration Law

The National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Utah, and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olsen filed a class action lawsuit on Tuesday charging that Utah’s recently passed law, HB 497, like Arizona’s notorious SB 1070, authorizes police to demand “papers” demonstrating citizenship or immigration status during traffic stops, invites racial profiling of Latinos and others who appear “foreign” to an officer, and interferes with federal law.  Here is Julia Preston’s report on the lawsuit.  See the Complaint here.  Download UCLR-v-Herbert-complaint-2011-05-03