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Arizona Legislature passes a law requiring proof of legal citizenship in order to receive a valid driver's license.
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Voters insist on a requirement for English immersion programs in schools, in turn banning bilingual education. It then passes 63%/37%.
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Voters approve of Proposition 200;denying public benefits to people who are not in the country legally. Passes 56%/44%.
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Civilians of Cochise County join together to form the "Minutemen Project" to help the U.S. border patrol in search for undocumented immigrants.
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Govenor Janet Napolitano declares a state of emergency for the border of AZ and Mexico. She was able to use $1.5 million of the "disaster funds" to support the U.S. border patrol to stop illegal immigration.
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About 20,000 hispanics marched down 24th street in Phoenix to protest the federal legislation that criminalized illegal immigrants. This march led to temporary business shut downs, traffic, and Arizona civilizan fights.
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Voters endorse a ballot containing a few immigration issues; the requirement of out-of-state college tuition for students who were unable to prove citisenship, the denial of bail to illegal immigrants, and for the official state language to be noted as English.
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Govenor Janet Napolitano signs a sweeping bill that fines employers who have hired illegal immigrants to work for their company. During this same time Napolitano criticizes Washington for taking too long to act on these matters.
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A changed version of Senate Bill 1070 is passed in AZ. The bill then goes to Govenor Jan Brewer's desk. During this time there arae protests at the AZ capitol building every day.
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Jan Brewer signs Senate Bill 1070 into law.
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Four lawsuits are filied against SB 1070 accussing the bill of being unconstitutional. Later these are dismissed.
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Jan Brewer passes SB 2162 which makes changes to SB 1070. This clarifies certain aspects of the previous bill and addresses that racial profiling is illegal.
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The U.S. Department of Justics files a lawsuit again SB 1070 and the outcome of this case is still not yet determined.
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Govenor Jan Brewer files a countersuit against the U.S. Department of Justice accusing the federal government of not securing the border.
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Govenor Jan Brewer hires Washington D.C. attorney, Paul Clement to argue SB 1070 for AZ in front of the Supreme Court.
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In the fall of 2012 the Supreme Court Justices are expected to rule on SB 1070.
