Arizona’s immigration law went into effect Thursday but without many of its key components.

Wednesday Federal judge Susan Bolton ruled parts of the law unconstitutional.

Among those components is a section requiring officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws if there's a reasonable suspicion the person is in the United States illegally.

Spokesperson for the Democratic Party of Texas, Daniela Santoni, says a sigh of relief was felt Wednesday before the clock struck midnight.  She says the blocked portions of the law are a temporary fix to a greater problem immigration reform.

“Five states were already calling for a law like the Arizona bill but 20 other states had already said that they were interested or at least they wanted resolution in support of the Arizona law,” she says.

But Bryan Preston with the Republican Party of Texas says it all goes back to border security and whether or not states can take federal power into their own hands.

“When states step up to perform their responsibilities and their authority to protect citizens the Democrats of Texas are saying, ‘With our blessing, Washington will attack you,’”

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is already appealing the federal ruling.  Meanwhile these two parties agree this issue is headed to the Supreme Court.