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 The court's decision not to hear the state's appeal leaves intact
an October 2013 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
San Francisco that found in part that the provision was trumped by
federal immigration law.
The harboring provision, part of Arizona's controversial 2010
immigration law, made it a criminal offense to encourage illegal
immigrants to enter the state or to harbor or transport them within
Arizona. Various groups that work with immigrants, including the
Border Action Network, challenged the provision.
In a 2012 case, the Supreme Court partially upheld other provisions
of the 2010 law.
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In March, the high court rejected similar cases in which towns in
Texas and Pennsylvania attempted to revive local laws that, among
other things, required tenants to provide identification that could
later be verified with immigration authorities and penalized
landlords for renting to illegal immigrants.
The case is Arizona v. Valle Del Sol, U.S. Supreme Court, 13-806
(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; editing by Will Dunham)
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