The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Alabama’s new immigration law from taking effect next month. The measure will require police to arrest anyone they suspect of being in the country without legal status and force public schools to determine the immigration status of enrolled students. The law also makes it a crime to knowingly harbor or transport an undocumented immigrant. The Justice Department is seeking an injunction similar to the one that stopped several similar provisions of Arizona’s anti-immigrant law. In a statement, federal prosecutors said: “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.”