badgenome on 29 July 2010
| venepe said: Congress can grant the state police the power to check immigration status if it wants to. But the state cannot do it on its own. |
They already have. For instance, federal law permits states to arrest illegal aliens without even obtaining a warrant if said alien has been previously convicted of a felony and deported. How could they possibly know the person's immigration status if they can't check it?
