Republican Governor Bruce Rauner signed the sanctuary state bill and Republicans have blanched ever since.
There was a court challenge that has finally reached the Appellate Court.
Concurrently the Federal government has sued Illinois for the sanctuary state status.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has filed a brief in the case.
“State measures that interfere with or stand as obstacles to the purposes of federal laws are preempted under the Supremacy Clause,” said Christopher J. Hajec, deputy general counsel of FAIR. “If it were otherwise, states would do everything they could think of to block federal purposes they disagreed with, and the supremacy of federal law would only exist on paper. We hope the court realizes the serious constitutional problems with this law, and strikes it down.”
I wonder how soon a decision will be rendered.
