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June 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Mexico has filed suit against the state of Arizona over the controversial immigration law which was signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and will take effect on June 29. Despite the fact that her own country’s government has also threatened to file, Governor Brewer is not backing down.

In a statement which Governor Brewer gave on Friday she stated that the decision by the Obama to sue one of the country’s own states was “outrageous” but “not surprising” and went on to say, “Our federal government should be using its legal resources to fight illegal immigration, not the law-abiding citizens of Arizona.”

In addition Brewer expressed, “I will ensure the immigration laws we passed are vigorously defended all the way to the United States Supreme Court if necessary, where this reasonable law will ultimately be found constitutional.”

Attorneys for the country of Mexico submitted a legal document today (Tuesday) which requested that a federal court declare the new immigration law in Arizona as unconstitutional, and was in support of getting the law changed.

Although Obama once stated that a family out for ice cream could be harassed by police because of this new law, the actual law itself states that the police can ask for proof of citizenship only after the person in question has already perpetrated another incident or crime, for instance if they are driving with no license, or robbing the ice cream store in Obama’s statement. In such instances, it is a misdemeanor to be in Arizona illegally, or to work there unless you are legally in the country.

The argument for Arizona is simple: The reason that the term for such person is already “illegal alien” is that the law in question has been a federal law for years, but was not being enforced, thus the reason for Arizona making it a state law. Therefore it was already “illegal” before the Arizona law.

But Mexico, in their suit, is saying that they wish to have “consistent relations” with the United States and should not be “frustrated” by one state. Mexico also says it has a “legitimate interest in defending it’s citizens’ rights” and this law would lead to racial profiling. Others argue that if these people are Mexican citizens, with no papers, then they are in Arizona illegally.