Why I think the Arizona law should be overturned..

[Sqrl]

TheRealMafoo said:

Sqrl said:
Reading up a bit more it seems the law is specifically crafted to do nothing more than recreate the federal law that is already on the books and not being enforced. So since they couldn't use or rely on the feds or the federal version of the law, they just passed their own state version.

If this is accurate, I'd have to say the sudden indignation at this law is would be pretty laughable.

If there is already a federal law, why would they need this one? Just start enforcing the federal one.

I don't know the specifics but it sounds like they were either being blocked from using it or they didn't have authority to enforce the federal version in the first place.  That combined with the feds refusal to enforce it created the circumstances that got the bill passed.