Supporters of the measure want to add more services to the list. The law will clearly hurt the immigrant population. The Judge was supposed to weigh the harms. He did a poor job. The law may also be unconstitutionally vague. Opponents say it is subject to interpretation as to which benefits are to be denied.

Elias Bermudez, executive director of downtown Phoenix's Centro de Ayuda (Center of Help), which prepares citizenship documents for immigrants, said immigrants won't know what benefits would be at stake. The main problem, he said, is that immigrants may not want to seek medical care for fear of being deported.

"It's a slap in the face to the Latino community," he said of the ruling. "We're very sad and feel sorry this is happening to our state."

Whatever happened to...

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

We are a nation of immigrants. This is shameful. How can we deny benefits to an undocumented pregnant woman when the fetus she is carrying will be a U.S. Citizen? How can the pro-lifers support this law? Probably the same way they justify the death penalty. Hypocrites, all of them.