This article refers to the Legal Arizona Workers Act of 2007. Not SB-1070.
(December 8 )
WASHINGTON — The justices of the nation’s high court took a shot today at contentions by the Obama administration and the business community that Arizona cannot punish companies for violating a state immigration law.
Justice Antonin Scalia pointed out that a 1986 federal law taking total control of immigration matters and punishment of errant employers has a specific exemption to allow states to have their own “licensing and similar laws.”
He said the sole penalty that can be imposed by Legal Arizona Workers Act, adopted in 2007, is for a judge to suspend or revoke any and all state licenses of firms found guilty of knowingly hiring undocumented workers. Scalia said that would appear to fit within what Congress intended.
But Carter Phillips, representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said that misinterprets the federal law.
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