The supreme court serves notice on Arizona's anti-immigrant law copycats

nec207 · 06-25-2012, 08:09 PM

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SB1070, the immigration law signed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer in 2010, has been as influential as it has been controversial. Due in large measure to the rise of the Tea Party movement, a number of other states have passed or are considering passing anti-illegal-immigration measures that are similar to the Arizona statute. As of Monday, however, the legal landscape affecting state laws has changed. The US supreme court struck down most of SB1070. In doing so, the supreme court reaffirmed a crucial and long-standing principle: immigration and policing the borders are policy areas in which the federal government is sovereign, and state governments cannot interfere in ways that obstruct federal policy objectives or endanger the rights of citizens.

Perhaps the most important section of SB1070 ruled unconstitutional by the court was section 3. This provision made it a state misdemeanor to engage in the "willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document" in violation of federal law. Based on longstanding precedents, section 3 intruded on a policy field – alien registration – that the federal government legitimately occupied, and hence is unconstitutional under the supremacy clause (which holds that in the case of a conflict between federal and state law, the former prevails). Arizona's case was so weak that the reliably conservative Justice Samuel Alito joined with the five-person majority (Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor) to hold that provision unconstitutional; had she not recused herself, Justice Elena Kagan surely would have ruled the section unconstitutional as well.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...-immigrant-law

frankbell · 06-25-2012, 08:55 PM

+1. Not the whole pie, but most of it.

jefro · 06-25-2012, 09:07 PM

The Supreme Court is stupid. Why on earth can't a law official determine if a person is breaking some or any law I will never know.

I am pretty sick of hearing about an illegal that wrecked someones life.
Example. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/25...gal-immigrant/

What other country gives their very best health care to non-citizens? What other country can't even let cops ask if they are criminals. What country gives illegals cheap college or driving licenses or the right to vote.

I'll tell you what it is. It is crooked people who hire the honest ones. They benefit from not paying what they should and not having to pay any benefits. They don't have to worry about a union asking for fair wages or working conditions. They simply threaten them with going back to Mexico.

The problem is that not all are good hard working folks. Some are the very worst part of the worlds drug trade. They are just as bad as any person is on this earth and they are wrecking Arizona and threatening the entire boarder between US and Mexico with terror, crime and murder. Wake up you clowns. The big cities are being taken over by some of the most violent criminals there is. Guess you don't care if they are not in your neighborhood.

You guys need to take a vacation in South Texas, New Mexico, Arizona or California. It is a machine gun armed, drug toting group that will and has killed and threatened entire towns. If you think the crime is only across the boarder then watch out. You might be the next victim.