The Arizona immigration law was questioned Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department. The federal government is trying to stop the law from taking effect. The Arizona immigration lawsuit claims that Arizona’s new law is unconstitutional because it overrides federal immigration law. Supporters of the Arizona immigration law say that a state overwhelmed with illegal immigration can’t wait for the federal government to deal with immigration reform.
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Feds – Arizona immigration law is unconstitutional
The Arizona immigration law needs state and local police to question all illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws. Immigrants have to carry alien registration documents all the time. As outlined by the Washington Post, the Arizona immigration lawsuit says the law illegally intrudes on federal prerogatives, invoking as its main argument the legal doctrine of “preemption,” which says federal law trumps state statutes. Enforcing immigration laws is a federal responsibility according to the Justice Department.
As outlined by Feds, immigration law violates civil rights
The preemption doctrine is being used in the Arizona immigration lawsuit because it has been established in Supreme Court as one of their decisions. According to the Post, some legal experts have said this is a good strategy to persuade a judge to declare the Arizona immigration law unconstitutional. But the Arizona immigration lawsuit asserts that the Arizona law would violate some civil rights and lead to police harassment of both U.S. citizens and legal immigrants.
The epicenter of the immigration crisis – Arizona
AZ passed the immigration law after numerous years of public outcry over social troubles credited to illegal immigration, including unemployment, drug trafficking and violent kidnappings. The Associated Press reports that the state is the biggest gateway into the U.S. for illegal immigration and is home to an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants. Arizona’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, accused the Obama administration of failing to secure the border with Mexico, forcing her state to act on its own. Brewer’s spokesman told AP the governor would have preferred that the federal government focus its resources on the immigration crisis instead of the Arizona immigration lawsuit.
Border security trumps immigration reform according to a poll
Despite the outcry for immigration reform legislation, it was reported by CNN that a number of senior Democratic sources said they see virtually no chance of Congress stepping up to deal with it before November’s midterm elections. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. national poll conducted in late May says that nine out of 10 Americans want to increase U.S. law enforcement along the border with all of Mexico. Eight in 10 also supported a program that would allow illegal immigrants already in the United States to stay here and apply for legal residency if they have a job and pay taxes. But just about 38 percent say that immigration reform should be a higher priority than border security.
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Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/06/AR2010070601928.html?hpid=topnews
Associated Press
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CNN
cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/06/arizona.immigration.lawsuit/index.html?npt=NP1
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