Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas each filed separate dissents arguing that SB 1070 should be upheld in its entirety.
Federal courts have blocked four key parts of the state's Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, known as SB 1070.
Latin pop star Shakira arrived in town Thursday to discuss SB 1070 with Mayor Phil Gordon, who has vowed to fight the law.
Second, the Supreme Court's decision to reverse most of Arizona's SB 1070 but keep its most controversial provision has further helped position Obama.
The combined effects of LAWA and SB 1070 forced about 200, 000 people out of Arizona, most of them from the Phoenix area.
Arizona had just passed SB 1070 requiring police to question people about their immigration status and Utah seemed destined to follow the same course.
Baires is one of many student activists in Arizona and across the country leading the charge to kill SB 1070 before it takes effect this summer.
Two and a half years after LAWA was passed, Arizona created a more controversial law called SB 1070 to enforce immigration laws outside of the workplace.
Dupnik said he opposed SB 1070 because if the entire law had been upheld by the federal courts, it would have resulted in overcrowded jails and overburdened state courts.
Justice Samuel Alito agreed with the majority that Arizona's alien-registration requirement was void, but voted to uphold SB 1070 provisions making it a crime for illegal immigrants to seek work and authorizing warrantless arrests of certain aliens.
Sporting a white baseball cap that that reads, "100% American Citizen, " Schwartz says she believes that SB 1070 came about because law enforcement in Phoenix was fed up over not being able to ask suspects about their immigration status.
While a federal judge in 2010 stopped enforcement of the most controversial provisions, other parts of SB 1070 were given the go-ahead, including a ban on "sanctuary cities, " or municipalities with laws or policies that render them relatively safe for undocumented immigrants.
The idea behind SB 1070 is to round up as many illegal immigrants as possible by requiring that police check the immigration status of people with whom they come in contact if officers have "reasonable suspicion" to believe that the person is the country illegally -- whether police want to or not.
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