The other blocked provisions make it a state crime for immigrants not to have immigration registration papers and for undocumented immigrants to seek work or hold a job.
Nations on the new immigrant-registration list, many of them supposedly American allies, have protested their inclusion.More broadly, there are some 18m legally resident aliens in the United States, an estimated 7m illegal immigrants, and a further 10m foreign-born citizens.
The hacker group says that the Arizona Department of Public Safety was targeted specifically because of the controversial SB 1070 law, which is one of the strictest anti-illegal immigration measures in the US (the policies in Alabama, Arkansas and Kentucky are also contenders for this dubious distinction) and requires Arizona immigrants to carry registration documents at all times.
For a U.S. visa, fill out the Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration Application (form DS-260).
The court said the requirement to carry papers intruded on federal registration of immigrants.
He also ruled against a provision that requires immigrants to carry federal registration documents.
It also blocked a section making it a state crime for illegal immigrants not to carry registration documents.
The program has employed rolling deadlines for different nationalities, and Friday, the final day of registration for immigrants living in the United States, was also the deadline for Egyptians, Jordanians, Kuwaitis, Indonesians and Bangladeshis with work or student visas.
His shortfalls: all these notorious outdoor markets, and the huge numbers of immigrants staying here without registration, forming whole ethnic neighborhoods, and, of course, his wife's wealth, gotten from God knows where, or through the abuse of her husband's position".
Phiyega said police had plans to improve registration of immigrants without documents in order to trace those guilty of crimes.
