Supreme Court Takes Up Arizona's Strict Immigration Law

individual states having their own immigration policies is a violation of federal authority and threatens to become a patchwork of 50 different immigration laws. people don't immigrate to Arizona or Texas or North Dakota, they immigrate to the USA; immigrating to a state is called "moving" or "relocating."

this would be like Florida adopting it's own immigration policy and chose to ignore the federal government's 'dry-foot' policy with regard to Cuban immigrants. by all accounts, immigrating from Cuba to the US is illegal -- on each country's account -- but if a Cuban makes it to shore, puts just a single foot on dry land, he or she has the right to apply for and be granted citizenship (barring any particular disqualifying attribute; e.g., criminal record.)

and speaking of that special policy for Cubans, not that i disagree with it, but why is it or should it be different for Mexicans, or any other nationality? it seems as tho having a policy which makes it illegal to discriminate based on national origin really doesn't mean much when you can keep certain nationalities from becoming citizens from the outset.