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(Arizona Republic) — Local Latino community leaders and activists called for the resignation of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Monday and asked that his officers change their tactics and stop what they call racial profiling.

Antonio Bustamante, a civil-rights attorney and director of Los Abogados, Arizona’s Hispanic Bar Association, said federal Judge Murray Snow’s ruling Friday is “monumentally important” because it confirms that officers are not authorized to pull anyone over if they think they are in the country illegally.

Snow’s ruling will curtail the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s ability to target illegal immigrants. It also gives thousands of Hispanics standing in a civil lawsuit that seeks to alter Arpaio’s immigration-enforcement efforts.

Arpaio’s attorney said last week that he plans to appeal the injunction and that deputies will comply with the ruling while continuing to enforce immigration-related laws.

Daniel Ortega, a Phoenix attorney who is board chair of the National Council of La Raza, said the ruling is about the protection of constitutional rights.

“It’s the right to be free,” said Ortega, who spoke in front of a painting of Martin Luther King Jr.