"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Shame on Arizona and the United States
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Is it not the states right to decide what is necessary for it to enforce within it's own boundaries?
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/05/03/immigration-foreign-affai...
And, if not, which I assume resides ultimately with the people of Arizona, doesn't the majority of it's citizens support the measure?
Article 6.2 This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. [Emphasis added]
Appreciated.
You're welcome and notice too that according to the strict legal wording of their "supremacy clause" there is a restriction on the laws, i.e. they are supposed to be made "in pursuance" of the Constitution, but the "treaties made or which shall be made" have not that same restriction, inferred or otherwise. It is important to note that only about five percent of the international agreement entered into by the US Government requires Senate advice and consent (Art. II, Sec. 2).
“April 12, 1952 -- John Foster Dulles, later to become Secretary of State, says in a speech to the American Bar Association in Louisville, Kentucky that ‘treaty laws can override the Constitution.’ He says treaties can take power away from Congress and give them to the President. They can take powers from the States and give them to the Federal Government or to some international body and they can cut across the rights given to the people by their constitutional Bill of Rights.” [Emphasis added]
July 18, 1993 -- CFR member and Trilateralist Henry Kissinger writes in the Los Angeles Times concerning NAFTA: "What Congress will have before it, is not a conventional trade agreement but the architecture of a new international system...a first step toward a new world order."