Arizona fights the new immigration law

A federal judge from Arizona, one of seven seeking to have the new law abolished before even coming to effect, rejected the Obama administration’s new immigration law.

Jan Brewer, the governor of Arizona, says that Obama is trying to prevent Arizona government from protecting its citizens because illegal immigration has already caused a lot of problems for the Arizona state. Arizona is happy with the existing federal immigration laws that are considered to be constitutional compared to the Obama administration that is trying to impose immigration policies that are in conflict with the law that has been applied until now. The current law requires officers to check a person’s immigration status if they have any suspicion what so ever the person might live illegally in the United States.

If Susan Bolton, the United States District Judge, rules in Arizona’s favor, then states may start deciding on issues that have been the responsibility of the federal government until now. Bolton has already ruled in two cases unrelated to the immigration law in favor of the state law over federal law. In 2008 Bolton rejected a claim made by a woman saying that her employer broke a federal law regarding overtime pay. The woman took into consideration the federal law but the judge rejected it under state law. In 2005, a woman intended a lawsuit because she was harmed by taking a cold medicine ruled in favor of the producer, taking into consideration a state law immunizing medicine producers from most severe damages in product liability cases.