PHOENIX – The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and the state over the nation's toughest immigration crackdown.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix argues that Arizona's law requiring state and local police to question and possibly arrest illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic violations usurps federal authority.
"In our constitutional system, the federal government has pre-eminent authority to regulate immigration matters," the lawsuit says. "This authority derives from the United States Constitution and numerous acts of Congress. The nation's immigration laws reflect a careful and considered balance of national law enforcement, foreign relations, and humanitarian interests."
The government is seeking an injunction to delay the July 29 implementation of the law until the case is resolved. It ultimately wants the law declared invalid.
The government contends that the Arizona law violates the supremacy clause of the Constitution, a legal theory that says federal laws override state laws. It is already illegal under federal law to be in the country illegally, but Arizona is the first state to make it a state crime and add its own punishment and enforcement
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Do you agree or disagre with Obama Administration's challegne to Arizona immigration law????
If you are American who understands the form of goverment you live in, you would be agreed to the fact that challege is to be made. President or federal government's challenge to the state law issue would make the solid and strong 'federal law.'
i feel like its important for the federal governement to challenge this law beyond individuals clamoring for change because this sets a bad precedent for state and federal relations. think civil war
ReplyDeleteChallenge of Obama is acutally beneficial for Arizona. Because I beleive.. sometimes losing is winning cuz law can be rewrote.
ReplyDeletethe Immigration and Naturalization Act was principally concerned "with the terms and conditions of admission of the INA and the subsequent treatment of aliens lawfully in the country" and that it therefore did not necessarily prohibit restrictions on the hiring of illegal aliens....
ReplyDeleteThe Court remanded for a determination of whether the statute was being enforced consistently with federal law....
The social and economic problems generated by explosive growth also provide Arizona with a compelling interest in promoting social stability. I am from Arizona and I used to think that this is a place where I could so-called it a heaven... but now I doubt if its still the same as before or it is changing....
ReplyDeleteThat parish today has Hispanic members, and Governor Brewer's Lutheran congregation conducts one of its Sunday services in Spanish. The tremendous outcry against the statute, however, indicates that such progress against prejudice and discrimination may not have been as pervasive as one would have hoped....
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