The intent of the law — to get illegal immigrants to leave Arizona on their own — is still intact. Chin says he believes that’s the real message lawmakers were trying to send. In fact, he thinks the law was too vague to do anything else. “The law was drafted diffusely,” he said. “It was drafted broadly as a test — to see what parts of it would stand up and what parts of it wouldn’t.” The law’s supporters deny that. One of the bill’s sponsors, state Rep. John Kavanaugh, says the state will take it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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