Alabama Ruling

     Published today via the Los Angeles times is the announcement that the Supreme Court has chosen to not hear the case from Alabama seeking to the right to enforce immigration laws. Specifically, Alabama passed a law allowing law enforcement to arrest and jail anyone that hides or transports illegal immigrants. 

     The law allowed law enforcement officials this right and clearly made the enforcement of immigration issues a state-executed law. The law had been shot down on state levels and was then appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court sided with lower courts, definitively stating that enforcement of immigration laws is strictly the right of the federal government. 

     If you will recall, a similar issue took place after Arizona passed it's controversial SB-1070 law which greatly increased Arizona's strictness compared to other states. That law was also similarly picked apart by the courts. Notable is the victory that this poses for the Obama Administration. The ruling from the Supreme Court was 8-1 with Antonin Scalia dissenting. 

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-supreme-court-alabama-immigration-law-20130429,0,359722.story