SCOTUS on Ariz Immigration Law by MSW. MGB: Actually, the requirement to have and show documentation was not upheld. All that was upheld was the responsibility of law enforcement to call the federal facility in Vermont that is charged with doing these verifications. If local sheriffs don't start pulling over Latinos or others as a pretext to check their status and limit their checks to people actually in custody or who would have been stopped anyway in border areas, this portion of the law will likely stand. Because the Feds have a center to take these calls, they can't oppose them with a straight face.
Everything else was handily rejected by the Courts, as it should be and as it will be in every other state that tries such nonsense. Romney's claim that they had to act because Obama would not is silly on its face, since it was the GOP who was blocking a compromise that was one vote in the Senate away from law. As I remember it, Lindsey Graham was about to sign on to a compromise before someone started talking about birth right citizenship being an issue. I suspect it was big food, which thrives on labor in the shadows to freely abuse its workers who paid for this issue to suddenly come up. If meat processing employees no longer live in fear of deportation, they will call USDA on conditions and DOL to unionize as soon as the ink is dry on the law. That is the real reason that compromise was averted.
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