• Heritage Action   • More Lecture #1173 on Immigration
December 3, 2010  The Arizona Immigration Law: What It Actually
Does, and Why It Is Constitutional   Abstract: America has
arrived at a dangerous, unprece­dented moment: an Administration
is attacking a state that is simply trying to help the federal
government restore the rule of law. In addition to partisan
mischarac­terizations of S.B. 1070, observes Professor Kris
Kobach, the Eric Holder Justice Department launched an
unprece­dented and unwarranted lawsuit that has shattered the
balance between the federal government and the states, as well
as the balance between executive and congressional power,
through its distortion of preemption doctrine. A federal
district judge has already embraced the Justice Department’s
argument without any evident awareness of how the argument
breaches constitutional boundaries. Consequently, concludes
Kobach, America’s only hope is that the appellate courts will
realize just what is at stake, and uphold S.B. 1070 on cons