Rather than this question: “Why can’t Arizona be as inhospitable as they wish to people who have entered or remained in the United States?”
I would have asked: “Why can’t Arizona be as inhospitable as they wish to people who have ILLEGALLY entered or remained in the United States?”
Just me......
Then again, were I the sitting judge, I would have thrown the Feds out of my courtroom for bringing a frivolous suit to begin with.
She’s being very careful in her words so as not to discriminate. You treat anyone stopped under the law all the same. You check’em all.
Actually, the judge did use the word “illegally” at the end of her sentence, but when the Washington Post reported the exchange they left out that word. The exchange was reported correctly in our local papers (Tucson) but that doesn’t fit the agenda of the Main Stream Media so they edited out the words that didn’t suit their purpose.