Police arrested tens of protestors Thursday who marched through the streets of Arizona's capital Phoenix to protest against the state's controversial immigration law. The protests came a day after a federal judge placed a temporary injunction on the most controversial parts of the law, which would have required immigrants to carry their documents with them at all time, according to dpa. The law would also have required police to check the immigration status of anyone they arrested whom they suspected of being in the country illegally. Other clauses of the law went into effect Thursday and Arizona planned to appeal the injunction later in the day. The arrests occurred after hundreds of protestors marched from the state capitol to the office of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who for years has orchestrated a harsh crackdown on illegal immigrations. Some protestors were arrested when they approached a police line, while others sat in the middle of the road and refused to leave before being arrested by police. "Arpaio represents all those people who are trying to deny rights to the oppressed people, " protestor Chris DeBonis told the German Press Agency dpa. Local media reported that hundreds of protestors had also gathered outside the jail in the city where their arrested comrade were being held. "No justice, no peace, no racist police," they chanted.
