Administration seeks employer sanctions review

[babylonsister]

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Administration seeks employer sanctions review

By PETE YOST
Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration on Friday urged the Supreme Court to prevent Arizona from enforcing a law that punishes businesses that employ illegal immigrants, arguing that federal immigration law trumps state efforts.

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In asking the Supreme Court to take the employer sanctions case, the Obama administration said federal immigration law expressly pre-empts any state law imposing sanctions on employers hiring illegal immigrants. The administration added that if Arizona businesses knowingly use illegal immigrants, the businesses can have any of their state licenses suspended or revoked.

Lower courts have said that the Arizona law is not pre-empted by the federal law. That should be reversed, acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said in the Supreme Court filing.

The Arizona law disrupts "a careful balance that Congress struck nearly 25 years ago between two interests of the highest importance: ensuring that employers do not undermine enforcement of immigration laws by hiring unauthorized workers, while also ensuring that employers not discriminate against racial and ethnic minorities legally in the country," Katyal wrote.

Phoenix attorney Julie Pace, representing the trade associations that are challenging the Arizona law, called the Obama administration's position "good news that the federal government has gone on record supporting the legal challenge to the constitutionality" of the Arizona law.

[Cha]

1. Good..thank you, babylonsister.

[babylonsister]

2. You're welcome, Cha. Thanks for letting good news not sink, at

least for this one little moment in time. :D

[Cha]

3. It is very good news and it

would seem like more than a few businesses in Arizona would be happy with this request for a review from the SC on employer sanctions.

I can't imagine the SC 5 being much help though..but, the White House is getting it out there.

[harkadog]

4. So now DUers want employers to have the right to employ illegals?

What is next -- slave labor?