Professor Eastman Published Op-Ed on Arizona Immigration
May 20, 2012
Professor Eastman published an op-ed in Bloomberg, entitled “Arizona Leads U.S. in Real Immigration Reform.” In it, Professor Eastman commented on the Supreme Court hearing dealing with Arizona’s S.B. 1070 immigration law, saying that the Supreme Court justices appeared to be leaning toward accepting the federal government’s argument that when it imposed sanctions only on illegal immigrants’ employers rather than the employees themselves, Congress implicitly intended to leave the illegal-immigrant employees alone, which prevented the states from creating their own sanctions under “field pre-emption.” Professor Eastman concludes, “This will be a good experiment in an ‘enforcement first’ strategy, while the administration and Congress continue to debate, ad nauseam, a comprehensive immigration reform.” Read his full op-ed here.