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(Politico) — A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked two more sections of a new Alabama law targeting illegal immigration.
The order issued Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit bars enforcement of a provision forbidding state and local governments from engaging in “business transactions” with illegal immigrants and another that instructs state courts not to enforce contracts involving those illegally in the U.S.
The three-judge panel handling lawsuits over the Alabama law offered no detailed rationale for the decision, but said that the federal government and private groups challenging the law had “met their burden” to expand a previously-ordered injunction against other parts of the law, including a requirement for schools to check the immigration status of children.