jc456
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or not,Federal law overides state law you can’t legally declare yourself a sanctuary city or state and refuse to obey federal immigration law.What’s sad is that you have to do this to try and get a state to obey federal law.
There is a federal law that states must enforce federal law? Perhaps you can cite said statute.
Strangely enough, that is a totally false post. I say, "strangely", because we are dealing with 8th grade Civics here. No state is legally required to enforce federal law, period. They may cooperate with the feds, if they wish, but the feds have no authority to make my state, for example, arrest people who the state has licensed to grow marijuana. You have been listening to way too much AM radio. But, please, if you disagree, just cite the federal statute that requires me (I work for the county sheriff's office) to round up, or even report illegal immigrants to the feds. In fact, since I occasionally drop off water, food, clothing and medicine to points in the Southern AZ desert, with the full knowledge and cooperation of the Border Patrol, one would think that I would have been arrested, by now:
Tucson Samaritans: humanitarian aid in the Arizona desert
Federal vs. State Immigration Laws - FindLaw
"The federal government's jurisdiction over immigration law has consistently been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has overruled attempts by state legislatures to single out immigrants. Additionally, the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution is generally interpreted to mean that federal laws trump state laws, except for certain matters constitutionally left to the states."