What would Martin Niemoller think about Arizona?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Redux

Possession of illegal drugs has never been solely a federal crime nor does federal law identify it as such.

What the AZ laws does is make illegal immigration a state crime when federal law (and the Constitution?) deems it to be solely a federal crime....that the states can help enforce, but NOT make more restrictive than the federal law.

State Troopers seem to be the ultimate law enforcement agency at all state levels. It seems to me that they have great leeway to enforce all law, both state and federal. You keep saying the AZ law is more restrictive, when it is not. We have already agreed that Federal police agencies (ICE and Border Patrol) have the same authority that they are giving to local and state police agencies in AZ.