With the Rev. Jed Rardin looking on, Father Joe Gurdack of St. Augustin Parish speaks about the difficulties facing local immigrant families.
Immigrant leaders, clergy, and other concerned people gathered at the State House June 25 to express alarm at aspects of the US Supreme Court’s ruling upholding part of Arizona’s anti-immigrant law.
The decision affirmed that the federal government maintains sole control over immigration policies. However, it also sustained the egregious “show me your papers” clause which in its implementation implicitly endorses racial profiling.
