Posted Jun 25, 2012, 7:17 am
U.S. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision announced Monday on Arizona’s immigration law, S.B. 1070:
While we still want to fully review the Supreme Court's decision, today's ruling appears to validate a key component of Arizona's immigration law, SB 1070. The Arizona law was born out of the state's frustration with the burdens that illegal immigration and continued drug smuggling impose on its schools, hospitals, criminal justice system and fragile desert environment, and an administration that chooses to set enforcement policies based on a political agenda, not the laws as written by Congress. We will continue our efforts on behalf of the citizens of Arizona to secure our southern border. We believe Arizonans are better served when state and federal officials work as partners to protect our citizens rather than as litigants in a courtroom.
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1 comment on this story
Great, we got US Senators drinking the kool-aid, mislabeling this as an “immigration law”. Wonderful… :(
Of course Arizonans are better served when we and the Feds work together, but cooperation is a two-way street, and the Feds haven’t been doing their part…hence this whole situation to begin with.