ba1614
Silver Member
Have you read the law? It doesn't institute ANY policies, it simply allows local LEO to detain illegals and turn them over to ICE.
Funny that not a single attorney not employed by the Justice Department thinks this lawsuit has a chance.....
Yes, I've read it. Arizona is trying to institute new arrest and detention policies which do not exist in federal law. They're saying that their state and local cops will make busts based on state policy. They're then saying they expect federal prosecutors to enforce state-created law enforcement policies. That's not going to happen. If there is one thing that is absolutely certain here it's that federal cases will not be bound by the dictates of a state law. That's what Arizona is trying to do.
I still do not see how this interferes with federal statutes. The arrests may be made according to state policy but the prosecution is totally under federal statutes. The policy of checking the immigration status of individuals in the states does not change the fact that they are still breaking federal law and it is under that law they will be deported. Where is the difference in the state law and the federal law? Just because the feds are making it policy to not enforce the law does not mean that the law is not there and it seems that it is within a states right to actually enforce the law as written. If the fed does not want Arizona to enforce the law as it stands then they need to CHANGE that law, not sue Arizona for helping to enforce it.
The federalies don't want the extra work that would result from the states arresting the criminals and handing them over.