According to some Republicans in Congress, the Obama administration is being mean and picking on Arizona through it’s legal challenge to SB1070, set to go into effect on July 29th. Apparently having “more boots on the ground” on the border and programs like 287(g) and Secure Communties aren’t enforcement heavy enough so Arizona, according to the Republicans, is well within it’s right to enforce SB1070. Which is why, two Republican Senators, Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.) and David Vitter (La.), are planning on attaching a procedural amendment to small business legislation next week to try and block the Federal Justice Department’s lawsuit.

As far as I know, there are currently three lawsuits against SB1070, the Federal lawsuit, the LULAC/Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law suit, and the first suit filed by the ACLU and other orgs including Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) – a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, ACLU of Arizona, National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

The state has amassed a war chest of over a million dollars so far for the defense of the law, thanks in large part to donations.