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On Tuesday in Arizona, the City Councils of Tuscon and Flagstaff voted to file suit against the statewide anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, set to take effect this July. The actions follow a statement by Phil Gordon, the mayor of Phoenix who publicly opposes the law. Nationwide momentum is building up against the law, even as new polls suggest that a slight majority of Americans support it. A Rocky mountain poll released on Tuesday found that in Arizona 52% support the bill while 39% oppose it. That mirrors a nationwide Gallup poll which found that of the 78 percent of Americans who have heard about SB 1070, 51 percent approve of it and 39 percent disapprove. However, the media watchdog group Media Matters for America take issue with the conduct of the poll asserting that the extent of knowledge of Arizona’s law was not made clear to those being surveyed. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of American cities on Saturday May 1st to protest SB 1070 and demand full rights for immigrants. Pressure on the federal government to take action on comprehensive immigration reform is building fast even as legislators in 10 different states are considering their own state laws mirroring Arizona’s SB 1070.

GUEST: Marcelo Ballve, contributing editor at New America Media, former AP reporter, Andrea Nill, Immigration Researcher and Blogger for ThinkProgress.org and The Progress Report at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Laura Vasquez, Legislative Analyst, Immigration Policy Project at the National Council of La Raza

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Read Andrea Nill’s blog at http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/author/anill/

Read Marcelo Ballve’s article at New America Media: http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=d8f9be46a8b86c61a61ce5f00acde741