Overview
- Arizona Senate leaders, who filed a 1487 complaint Monday, set a 30-day clock for AG Kris Mayes to review Pima County’s policy.
- Arizona’s 1487 process lets lawmakers force an attorney general probe of local rules, and a violation finding can bring lawsuits or a cut of state-shared revenue.
- The Pima County resolution, approved 4–1 in February, blocks ICE from using county buildings, parking lots, or resources for civil immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant and tells staff not to grant access.
- Republican leaders argue the county’s limits conflict with the state constitution and a law that bars curbing cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, and they question Mayes’s neutrality.
- County officials say the rule protects access to services after what they call abusive DHS and ICE tactics and stress that agents with judicial warrants can still enter, as a similar fight now targets a Phoenix policy restricting ICE use of city property.