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April 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Arizona’s controversial immigration law heads to the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow. NBC’s Pete Williams offers a preview. Tamar Jacoby, ImmigrationWorks USA, and Alan Wilson, South Carolina Attorney General, weigh in.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments today over the controversial “show me your papers” law introduced in Arizona in a bid to catch illegal immigrants.
The legislation, which was signed into law by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in April 2010, includes a requirement that local police check the immigration status of a criminal suspect if they have “reasonable suspicion” that person is in the country illegally.
The law has been put on hold by lower courts pending action by the Supreme Court.
MSNBC’s Alex Wagner talks with Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli about the impact of Arizona’s controversial immigration law ahead and the debate over racial profiling under the law. The National Journal’s Rehan Salam joins the NOW panel to debate whether or not the immigration law will affect the Latino vote come November.
The Obama administration argues the law should be struck down because immigration policy is rightfully set by the federal government, not states.
Arizona contends immigration is not exclusively a federal matter and the state has the right to act because federal authorities have not done their job.
The Supreme Court’s website says the question the court will consider is “whether the federal immigration laws preclude Arizona’s efforts at cooperative law enforcement and impliedly preempt” the provisions of the law.
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The case has become 2012 campaign fodder for the Obama administration and Republicans.
But it is an issue that also has the potential to split the Republicans.
The most prominent Latino Republican, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio — a potential running mate for Mitt Romney — said last week that he did not “believe that laws like Arizona’s should be a model for the country,” although he added he understood why Arizona had passed the law.
But, crucially, he added, “I would much rather the federal government deal with the illegal immigration issue and modernize our legal immigration system … .”
Those remarks put him at odds with Romney, who in February called the Arizona’s immigration law “a model.” Romney also has said he hoped the law “will be implemented with care and caution not to single out individuals based upon their ethnicity.”
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