Arizona immigration law unlikely to survive federal lawsuit
LA Times has a decent roundup of the legal issues, if someone wants a comprehensive post detailing them and the legal reasoning.
Arizona’s law giving local police immigration enforcement powers is likely to be struck down, most legal experts predict, now that the Obama administration has gone to court asserting that it conflicts with federal law.
They cite the longstanding principle that the federal government has exclusive control over immigration and that “no state can add or take away” from the policy set in Washington.
Much more at link. Gist is that second paragraph there: that there is a longstanding principle and precedent that the federal government has exclusive control over immigration.
It’s not a surprise that the mouthbreathers instant wingnut legal ‘experts’ popping up to discuss this don’t know what they’re talking about, as usual.