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[kalvin71]

Federal judges have blocked strict new immigration laws adopted by conservative legislatures in half a dozen states, including a ruling last week that said South Carolina may not set up a “street-level dragnet” to stop and arrest illegal immigrants.

But immigrant rights advocates who have cheered those rulings may soon find their luck has run out as those rulings head for the Supreme Court. Legal experts believe the high court’s conservative majority will take a sharply different approach.

In May, the Supreme Court signaled skepticism about a similar argument.

The justices upheld another Arizona law that punished employers who hire illegal workers. In his opinion, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. sounded a states’ rights theme and set a “high threshold” for striking down a state law on the grounds that it conflicted with the aims of the federal government.

Roberts’ ruling was part of a trend on the high court that sweeps more broadly in addressing immigration disputes. In the last decade, the court increasingly has been reluctant to strike down state laws as being “pre-empted” by federal law unless Congress has clearly said that states have no role to play. Arizona lawyers played on that theme in their appeal.

Moreover, “the states have an inherent police power” within their borders, said former U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, who represents Arizona.

John Eastman, a law professor at Chapman University in Orange, said the Supreme Court was likely to look at immigration disputes differently from the lower courts. It is “a peculiar idea,” he said, for the federal government to assert that states may not enforce immigration laws within their borders.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/newsworldnation/945011-227/high-court-to-eye-immigration.html

[kenway]

Well you might as well call Phoenix ,Arizona the Nazi capital of the U.S.A.

[kendon19]

You're question is about a federal law; yet, you article is about state laws.

Don't worry you don't sound like an anti-American racist who is too stupid to even understand his own belief systems.