Do you really want the individual states to set their own unique immigration policies? Tell me, what do you think states like California would do with that green light? Sanctuary cities are bad enough. Sanctuary states?
By the way, it seems to me that this ruling pulls the rug out from under those sanctuary cities.
“Do you really want the individual states to set their own unique immigration policies?”
No stae or locality is setting up its own immigeration policy in the laws they have enacted. In every case, including Arizona, the states and localities are implementing local enactments of the existing federal laws which are not being enforced.
For example, the requiremnt that foreigners carry some proof of their staus and legality of being in the US. That IS existing federal law, that a foreigner in the US carry with him at all times his proper documentation - passport, visa, I-94, work permit, etc.
We have gotten ourselves into the bizarre and illogical position that only the feds can enforce immigration laws, not the states, but the feds refuse to enforce those same laws. What if we applied these same rationales to the overlapping federal and state laws concerning kidnapping, bank robbery, counterfeiting, drugs, mail fraud, etc.?
Every existing or proposed state /local law on immigration is a direct result of the federal government’s refusal to enforce federal law. The Rep[ublicans should be initiating impeachment bills for Obama’s failure to do his Constitutional duty to “. . . take care that the laws be faithfully executed”. But Republicans in power also want the illegals here to provide cheap labor for their Chamber of Commerce cronies.
Only the people are left out of the process. They suffer, everyone else profits.