[CharlesWayneCT]

I doubt that is what Cain was referring to. But if it was, that is a stupid answer. Arizona had to pass that law because the feds are not doing their job.

But assuming the feds WERE doing their job, we shouldn’t have every state having their own idea of how to handle illegal immigrants, especially like Cain said giving the states the right to decide what if anything to do.

We have enough trouble with sanctuary cities, and now we are going to create sanctuary states? Because you know if you let each state be in charge of deciding whether or not to deport illegals, that’s what is going to happen.

We need the feds deporting illegals. States cannot do it (notwithstanding the rediculous claims made here). States can under current law detain illegals, but they can’t send them home, that’s why states keep begging the feds to take the illegals out of their jails and send them home.

States DO have to handle illegals right now, because they aren’t being deported. So you have individual states setting rules up to try to get the illegals to move on to other states. But that is hardly the CORRECT approach, and it’s rediculous to argue that this is what Cain meant, because it makes him look stupid.

[VinL]

The President has the authority, through the attorney general, to allow states to deport illegals- It appears that Mr. cain is saying he would exercise that authority.

When it articulates the proviso that the state must comply with federal law in administering any enforcement- he is merely expressing the necessary predicate that undergirds that delegation of authority.

[butterdezillion]

It sounds to me like Cain is saying that if the feds won’t obey federal policy then the states should be empowered to do it. IOW, if the feds refuse to deport those that the current law says are to be deported, then the states can do it.

Sounds like he’s saying that the feds should obey the law and just in case they don’t the states should be able to make sure the federal law is obeyed. The states can hold the feds to the rule of law, in other words - so that if the feds won’t do it the states will, just so the law ends up being enforced.

Given the lawless state of the government at all levels right now, we definitely need SOMEBODY to be empowered to hold the government to obeying the laws in existence.

[American Constitutionalist]

" especially like Cain said giving the states the right to decide what if anything to do. "



10th Amendment:

“ The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. ”