The Hill News

The Department of Justice asked an appeals court Friday to block the enforcement of a controversial Alabama immigration law, which is considered to be among the toughest in the nation. 

The law would allow authorities to question those suspected of being illegal immigrants and hold them in jail without bond. It also allows school officials to check the immigration status of students.

The Department of Justice said in a release that these provisions "conflict with federal immigration law and undermine the federal government’s careful balance of immigration enforcement priorities and objectives." 

"Alabama’s law is designed to affect virtually every aspect of an unauthorized immigrant’s daily life, from employment to housing to transportation to entering into and enforcing contracts to going to school," the statement said.

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