A group sits in front of the Tucson, Arizona, section of the US-Mexico border.Matt York/AP

Arizona voters passed Proposition 314 is a measure that would allow state and local police to detain people crossing the border outside ports of entry and give state judges the authority to issue deportation orders. The ballot measure received just over 62 percent of the vote. Advocates, including the ACLU of Arizona and the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, strongly condemned the measure and warned it would open the door to immigrants. racial profiling and harassment of black people living in Arizona.

Because immigration enforcement is a federal power, the law would likely face challenges. and similar state laws has been shot in the past.

Arizona is no stranger to constitutionally questionable immigration laws. In 2012, the Supreme Court rejected most of Senate Bill 1070, which made it illegal to do so in the state. this states I have no strength Punishing people who are in the country without documents.

In Texas, a similar bill that would have allowed Texas police to detain people crossing the Mexican border outside ports of entry into the state has been repeatedly blocked by legal challenges from the Justice Department and immigration advocacy groups defending the legislation. It violates the federal government’s sole authority over immigration.

The measures taken in Arizona and Texas are part of a growing number of anti-immigrant proposals from Republican state lawmakers across the country. The League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the largest Hispanic civil rights organizations in the country, found that state lawmakers have already made the proposal. 233 anti-immigrant A month before Election Day, bills are more than four times the total in 2020.