AUSTIN (KXAN) — Nearly a decade after Austin leaders restricted city employee travel to Arizona over its controversial 2010 “Show Me Your Papers” Law, City Manager Spencer Cronk is changing course.

The city manager is lifting the ban on business-related travel to Arizona, because he says that state’s controversial immigration law is no longer a threat to city employees.

Critics of the 2010 law say it effectively legalized racial profiling, by allowing officers to ask someone for their citizenship papers if there were reasonable suspicions they weren’t in the United States legally.

The city sent the following statement Tuesday afternoon about its travel ban reversal to Arizona: