The new Arizona law mirrors federal law, which already requires aliens (non-citizens) to register and carry their documents with them (8 USC 1304(e) and 8 USC 1306(a)). The new Arizona law simply states that violating federal immigration law is now a state crime as well. Because illegal immigrants are by definition in violation of federal immigration laws, they can now be arrested by local law enforcement in Arizona.
Read the story in its entirety, but basically all the Arizona law does is to make illegal immigration enforceable at the state level.
Then why the teeth gnashing coming from the usual suspects?
That's an easy one. The Feds can't be everywhere, and often claim that a serious lack in manpower curtails their ability to respond to the plethora of felonies committed by illegal immigrants. Virtually EVERY liberal politician knows that the laws ARE unenforceable and that's why they wrote them to begin with.
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