Feds challenge Arizona immigration law…no, not the new one – the one from 2007
San Francisco Chronicle
Feds challenge Arizona immigration law
In a preview of the legal clash over Arizona’s broad new immigration law, the Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to rule that only the federal government can punish employers who knowingly hire illegal [aliens…. criminals]. — A separate Arizona law penalizing employers of undocumented workers would “disrupt a careful balance that Congress struck” in the 1986 federal immigration act…