• Requiring police officers to make a reasonable attempt to check the immigration status of those they have stopped for other reasons.
• Forbidding police to release anyone they have arrested until that person's immigration status is determined.
• Making it a violation of Arizona law for anyone who is not a citizen to fail to carry documentation.
• Creating a new state crime of trying to secure work while not a legal resident.
• Allowing police to make warrantless arrests if there is a belief that people have committed offenses that allow them to be removed from the United States.
Sections that took effect on July 29
• Creating a separate state crime making it illegal to transport or harbor an illegal immigrant.
• Altering laws dealing with impoundment of vehicles that are used to transport illegal immigrants.
• Making it a crime to stop a vehicle in traffic to hire a day laborer, or for someone looking for work to get into a stopped vehicle.
• Requiring state officials to work with the federal government regarding illegal immigrants.
• Allowing Arizona residents to file suit against any agency, official, city or county for adopting policies that restrict the ability of workers to enforce federal immigration law "to less than the full extent permitted by federal law."
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