[OldDeckHand]

"I believe such an action would place the governor in the position of making foreign policy, and thereby trespassing on the Constitutional authority and jurisdiction of the president to do so."

Yes, I agree. I corrected myself just above - probably typing as you were posting.

[r9etb]

The hell of it is, the federal government really has failed to do its duty here, and that needs to be addressed.

But stuff like this..... Arizona's desire to do something about the problem is understandable, but this law is just amateurish. As the opinion points out, Arizona's arguments in court were essentially an attempt to explain why what the law meant was different from the actual letter of the law.