SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge Tuesday put Utah\'s new enforcement-only immigration law on ice. That means police throughout the state, for now, may not ask people arrested for felonies and class A misdemeanors and those booked into jail on class B and class C misdemeanors about their status in the country as outlined in HB497. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups made the temporary restraining order effective until he orders otherwise. The bill was to become law Tuesday.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A federal judge is hearing arguments Tuesday to decide whether to block a new Utah immigration law that lets police check the citizenship status of anyone they arrest. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups is set holding a hearing on the matter in Salt Lake City hours after the law goes into effect. Two civil rights groups sued to stop the law and want an injunction.

SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge Tuesday put Utah\'s new enforcement-only immigration law on ice. That means police throughout the state, for now, may not ask people arrested for felonies and class A misdemeanors and those booked into jail on class B and class C misdemeanors about their status in the country as outlined in HB497. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups made the temporary restraining order effective until he orders otherwise. The bill was to become law Tuesday.

Utah’s enforcement-only immigration law was on the books for less than 15 hours before a federal judge blocked it from being enforced Tuesday afternoon during a hearing that took less than an hour. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups issued the temporary restraining order after the lawyer for the state couldn’t argue that there wouldn’t be “irreparable harm” to people if the law remained in effect.

Utah’s enforcement-only immigration bill was law for less than 15 hours before a federal judge blocked it from being enforced Tuesday afternoon during a hearing that took less than an hour. U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups issued the temporary restraining order after the lawyer for the state couldn’t argue that there wouldn’t be \"irreparable harm\" to people if the law remained in effect. Lawyers for the state and the civil rights groups that brought the lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction will argue the case before the judge July 14.

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A federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday whether Utah’s enforcement-only immigration bill should be enforced or be set aside because civil rights groups believe it violates the U.S. Constitution. The law, HB497, is slated to take effect at midnight — meaning it will be enforceable for as long as there is no ruling on the case. Both the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center had attempted to reach an agreement with Attorney General Mark Shurtleff on Monday to delay the law’s start until after the court hearing, but those talks were unsuccessful.

NOGALES, Ariz. — A group of migrants was hustling north through the southern Arizona desert the other night when one of their cellphones vibrated with a text message. \"Watch out,\" it warned. \"Things are hot up ahead. Take cover in the bushes.\" The message, signaling the presence of the Border Patrol, was sent by a smuggler watching the group\'s progress through binoculars from a hillside on the Mexican side of the border, members of the group said later. It was part of what border officials and immigrant activists say is an emerging trend in illegal border crossing — the use of what is being called the cybercoyote.

As the angst continues to swirl within Utah Republican circles over the LDS Church’s increasingly apparent support of the Legislature’s package of immigration bills that includes a guest-worker provision, there is an elephant-in-the-room component that everyone seems to be missing. The LDS Church has as big a stake in this debate as any institution or association. Therefore, despite those who cry foul over the church’s support of more humanitarian solutions than an Arizona-style enforcement-only law, church officials and lobbyists not only had a right to get involved at the legislative level, it had an obligation to do so.

Mesa, Ariz • Fernando Hernandez feels weary on a Sunday morning as he sits alone in his office in this suburb connected to Phoenix by car-clogged freeways and seemingly endless rows of empty strip malls. Last year, about 600 clients paid for his tax preparation services and he employed four people to help with the onslaught. The day before the filing deadline, he and his staff worked until nearly midnight.

SALT LAKE CITY — As promised, the ACLU and National Immigration Law Center have asked for an injunction to halt implementation of new illegal immigration legislation set to go into effect Tuesday. Both groups filed a complaint in federal court this week. On Friday, they filed a memorandum asking that a federal magistrate judge issue a preliminary injunction to keep HB497 from being implemented.

A leading opponent of illegal immigration cautioned on his Facebook page Friday that Utah’s freshly minted guest-worker law creates a loophole that would have allowed 9/11 hijackers to live legally in the state by paying a simple fine. Ron Mortensen, co-founder of the Utah Coalition on Illegal Immigration, made the post just days after U.S. Navy SEALs killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. But Mortensen said his catalyst for the post was a recent General Accountability Office report that addressed the terrorist attacks and expired visas, adding that he has warned for months of the loophole for terrorists.

A program that is central to President Obama’s strategy to toughen enforcement of immigration laws is facing growing resistance from state governments and police officials across the country. Late Wednesday, Gov. Pat Quinn of Illinois said he was pulling his state out of the program, known as Secure Communities, the first time a state has sought to withdraw entirely. In California, where the program is already under way throughout the state, the Legislature is considering a bill that would allow counties or police agencies to choose whether to participate.

Milton Ivan Salazar-Gomez has lived in Utah since his parents brought him here when he was 10 months old. His two children are U.S. citizens. And he’s afraid he’ll be busted by a police officer who won’t know the feds have cleared him, not to be a citizen, but to be here legally. For now. Salazar-Gomez is one of five individual plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed this week to stop a new law from forcing police officers to take on a job that rightly belongs to federal agents — spotting and busting people in the country illegally.

South Salt Lake • Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and an adviser to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked mayors Wednesday to help refocus the debate and show how fixing immigration could boost the economy and create jobs. “The immigration issue really is an economic issue,” Shurtleff told a Utah League of Cities and Towns forum attended mostly by area mayors. That’s partly because the economy still depends heavily on labor by undocumented workers, he said, and ways must be found to fill that need within the rule of law.