
But he said he remained "seriously concerned" by "the potential impact" of the court's decision to let a key provision of Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 stand -- the part that instructs police to check the immigration status of those detained for "reasonable suspicion" that they are the United States unlawfully.
"Let me assure you -- the Justice Department will monitor the impact of this and other measures to make certain that they do not conflict with federal civil rights or immigration laws," Holder told a luncheon audience of nearly 2,000 people on the opening day of the group's four-day conference in Las Vegas.
"We'll work to ensure, as the court affirmed, that such laws cannot be seen as a license to engage in racial profiling," he said to applause.
"And we'll continue to enforce federal prohibitions against racial and ethnic discrimination, in order -- as President [Barack] Obama has promised -- to 'uphold our tradition as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.'"
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