United States of America, Respondent
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General
Congress established a comprehensive Federal system for the regulation of immigration and naturalization in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (INA). The law gave power to government agencies to determine under what circumstances aliens can be authorized to work in the United States and the process by which they could become U.S. citizens. In 2010, the State of Arizona, in response to what it saw as a failure by the Federal Government to effectively enforce its immigration laws, passed S.B. 1070, which made it a State crime for an alien to be in Arizona without legal papers or to…
