Appeals court stops Ariz. immigration law  A federal appeals
court ruled Monday that Arizona overstepped its bounds with last
year’s immigration enforcement law, handing the Obama
administration another victory as it tries to squelch states’
efforts on immigration enforcement.  A three-judge panel of the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling 2-1, upheld a lower
court’s decision that Congress doesn’t want states meddling in
immigration. The appeals court said that nullifies Arizona’s
attempt to empower local police to detain and question those
they suspect are in the country illegally.  “Foreign policy is
not and cannot be determined by the several states,” Judge John
T. Noonan Jr. wrote in his concurring opinion. “Foreign policy
is determined by the nation as the nation interacts with other
nations. Whatever in any substantial degree attempts to express
a policy by a single state or by several states toward other
nations enters an exclusively federal field.”  Arizona’s attempt
last year to step up local e