Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich dropped the anti-human smuggling fight, according to the Arizona Republic. The law, SB1070, which allowed the state to charge illegal immigrants as conspirators in smuggling themselves into Arizona was struck down by a lower court, and Brnovich dropped the appeal of that ruling.
Brnovich told the Arizona Republic, that he is “defending Arizona’s illegal immigration enforcement statutes,” but has “an obligation to be responsible with taxpayer dollars and defend the state where we are most likely to prevail. That is why I filed for the dismissal of the state’s legal challenge to the human-smuggling portion of SB 1070 today.”