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Obama Opposes Penalizing Hiring Illegal Immigrants

From the Washington Post:

The Obama administration on Friday urged the Supreme Court to review and set aside an Arizona law that sanctions employers who hire illegal immigrants, saying it would disrupt the "careful balance" that Congress struck in federal immigration law

The law being challenged, the Legal Arizona Workers Act, imposes tougher sanctions than federal law for hiring illegal workers. If the court chooses to hear the case, its ruling could show how receptive the justices would be to arguments that enforcing immigration laws is a federal responsibility that cannot be usurped by the states…

The administration, in a brief submitted by Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, said federal law should preempt state efforts.

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The Arizona law would "disrupt a careful balance that Congress struck nearly 25 years ago between two interests of the highest importance: ensuring that employers do not undermine enforcement of immigration laws by hiring unauthorized workers, while also ensuring that employers not discriminate against racial and ethnic minorities legally in the country," Katyal wrote…

Soooo how could it hurt to have a state enforcing the law? Other than putting a roadblock in Obama's plan to disregard laws making illegal immigration illegal...

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