Opinion: Controversial immigration law heads to court this week

Arguments will be heard for and against SB 1070 and the decision will come back this summer.   - - Donna Poisl

BY DANIEL C. VOCK, THE RECORD

THE U.S. Supreme Court case over Arizona’s latest anti-immigration law, scheduled for a hearing next week, hinges largely on the question of where states’ power over immigration ends and federal power begins. But in a sign of how contentious the case is, many states are supporting the federal government instead of Arizona.

Eleven states, all represented by Democratic attorneys general, warned the justices that Arizona’s law reached too far and undermined the immigration policy of the United States. However much Arizona may disagree with federal policies on immigration enforcement, they wrote in a friend-of-the-court brief, “It cannot operate its own unilateral removal policy outside of any federal oversight.”
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