With our Supreme Court about to rule on Arizona’s HB 2745 law, providing sanctions for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, and also requires employers doing business with the state of Arizona to use the federal government’s E-Verify database to confirm the legal status of workers, I thought it would be interesting to review the following observations concerning Arizona’s related law, S.B. 1070, as both cases involve a State’s retained policing powers under our Constitution’s Tenth Amendment.


In Eric Holder’s COMPLAINT against Arizona’s law S.B. 1070, he alleges that:

[b][i]“In our constitutional system, the federal government has preeminent authority to regulate immigration matters. This authority derives from the United States Constitution and numerous acts of Congress.â€