US government sues Arizona over anti-immigration law

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  1. MARIS61

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    Can someone tell me why the Federal Government can have a law on the books and choose not to enforce it, and if a state decides to enforce that law, they are prohibited from doing so?

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/usc_sec_08_00001304----000-.html

     
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    Do you really think they enforce every law on the books? They physically can't - too many of them, not enough man hours to look for every infraction. So the issue becomes WHICH laws to enforce (see promulgation).

    The feds (and many states) aren't exactly enforcing laws against marijuana these days. Selective enforcement of those laws have been problematic for a number of reasons (like look at all the black men arrested and jailed over it while whites skate).

    Should these laws be enforced? http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070918092945AARxLfo

    And yeah, I put the immigration law in that class of law.

    On top of the blatant unconstitutionality of the Arizona law on at least a half-dozen grounds, check out the law of the land:

    http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi...$$busc8.wais&start=2069296&SIZE=2281&TYPE=PDF

    I'm having a tough time seeing how the Arizona law can amend federal law which permits a very narrow activity by local law enforcement officials. See if you read it the same way that I do:
    A state may only arrest and detain an illegal alien IF and only IF he (or she) is here illegally AND has been convicted of a felony AND was deported because of that conviction.
     
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