If the federal government wants to block SB 1070 on the grounds that it “is preempted by federal law and therefore violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution,” then they should also examine and throw out the thousands of other laws on all the states’ books which reiterate and interpret federal law.
For example, we have federal laws relating to energy, health care, environmental protection, transportation, drug use, food production, gun use, child care, elder protection and virtually every other aspect of our lives. In turn, states adopt these laws on their books and, in some instances, make them more restrictive than the federal law. This has been going on for years. It would only seem fair that the district courts take into consideration all of these other laws which are on states’ books and abolish them.
Interesting that this isn’t an issue.
Greg LeCheminant, Gilbert
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Masterrogue666 posted at 6:42 am on Fri, Jul 16, 2010.
Dem's want the vote, Rep's want the cheap labor.
US Citizens are tire of paying for it. Time for the government to listen to their boss....
allamer posted at 11:34 am on Fri, Jul 16, 2010.
Greg, it's not INTERPRETATION of federal laws that the states do. It's ENFORCEMENT of the law. All sworn law enforcement officers have the duty to enforce the laws. The problem comes from all of the special interests who want our immigration laws ignored. And 20 million illegals later, we can see that they HAVE been ignored.