Alabama immigration law upheld

Key parts of Alabama immigration law upheld

“ A federal judge on Wednesday said Alabama law enforcement officers can try to check the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally...  the toughest in the country. U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn (President George H.W. Bush) said Alabama is allowed to tread anywhere that federal law doesn’t explicitly prohibit states from acting, which means the state can enact its own penalties for immigrants who fail to carry their registration papers, and can enable its state and local police to check immigration status. ” Finally, a judge who appears to have read and understood the 9th and 10th Amendments.  Almost.  This is what I find oddly at odds with her thinking. "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." So what happened here? “ But the judge did block four parts of Alabama’s law that she said go beyond what federal law allows: One provision created a civil action against employers who hired illegal immigrants over legal workers; another banned illegal immigrants from applying for a job; one made it a crime to harbor an illegal immigrant; and the other prohibited businesses from claiming tax deductions on wages paid to illegal immigrants. ” How could Judge Lovelace Blackburn apply the 10th Amendment so haphazardly?  I'm not a federal judge, and that's unfortunate.  I will then direct you the the Federalist Blog's treatment of this very issue (The US Constitution Only Delegates the Power Over Immigration or Asylum to the States)  “ Unlike the Federal Government, State governments claim broad general powers, and therefore, the question is never whether a power is granted for a State to exercise, but whether the power has been explicitly withheld from the State. The Federal Government was given specific national sovereignty over such things as war, peace, treaties (within the sphere of powers delegated), print money, define and punish piracies and felonies on the high Seas, make uniform rules of naturalization for foreigners who migrated to some State per State law, etc. Judge, the ball is in your court.  Explain yourself, please.