SCOTUS Upholds 2007 AZ Immigration Law

[falcon]

SCOTUS has upheld a 2007 AZ law that allows the state to punish employers who hire illegal aliens.

The Court majority on Thursday — 5-3 on the main points, 4-3 on less significant points — rejected claims by business and civil rights groups that Arizona’s four-year-old Legal Arizona Workers Act intrudes upon federal immigration policy on aliens’ employment. In legal terminology, the Court ruled that federal law did not expressly or by implication “preempt” the state statute

http://www.scotusblog.com/2011/05/op...n-aliens-jobs/

[The Rev]

Now if they just enforce the law everywhere, that’s where it has to start. If you cut off the jobs, the inflow will slow down.

[burniegoeasily]

The only reason they upheld it, is because they are a bunch of racists.

[falcon]

Now if they just enforce the law everywhere, that’s where it has to start. If you cut off the jobs, the inflow will slow down.

i'm not a lawyer and don't play lawyer on TV: After a good nights sleep, unusual for me, it appears that SCOTUS may be encouraging other states to pass laws like the AZ law.

[burniegoeasily]

Bush made them do it.

[The Rev]

Someone needs to start a group that publicly exposes companies that hire illegals. Falcon you’re retired maybe you should get the ball rolling. I’m sure people would jump on that bandwagon and volunteer information.

[falcon]

Falcon you’re retired maybe you should get the ball rolling. I’m sure people would jump on that bandwagon and volunteer information.

i'm going to do that. Nearly every meat packing plant in the US knowingly hires illegal aliens.