PHOENIX MAYOR WILL SUE TO PREVENT THE LAW FROM GOING INTO EFFECT !!

PHOENIX -- Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon will convene the Phoenix City Council today and ask for their support in stopping Arizona's new immigration law (SB1070). Gordon will ask council members to direct the city attorney to seek an injunction that will prevent the law from going into effect.

Gordon calls the controversial new law “unconstitutional” and says, "the majority of Arizonans don't support a law that will trample civil rights."

In an interview with 3TV’s Tara Hitchcock, Gordon said, "the law is so vague that whenever our police officers...enforce the law as potentially intended...then we can be sued and will be sued in civil rights Federal Courts for violations, which holds officers personally liable and the city liable."

Gordon says he supports Federal legislation that will secure the border and create work permits that would allow some immigrants to come here legally for work purposes. The two-term mayor has testified before Congress in support of immigration reform and says he is in favor of assigning additional resources to the border, including National Guard troops.

In a fiery op-ed piece that appeared in The Washington Post over the weekend, Gordon called the law’s author, Arizona Senator Russell Pearce and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, “hateful political opportunists” who “care less about capturing human smugglers and drug cartel gunmen than they do about capturing headlines.”

Gordon will put his proposal before the city council members at 2:00pm today.