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Hume: 'Paradoxical outcome' for Arizona immigration law

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Senior political analyst Brit Hume has some thoughts on the Supreme Court ruling today to be -- do you -- The Supreme -- -- under immigration ruling today is a paradoxical.

Outcome.

The portion of the Arizona law requiring immigration checks on suspects stop by local and state authorities for the reasons.

Was upheld this of course is a part of the law that -- all the controversy and nearly all the talk and was thus.

The only part of the law that most Americans than ever -- era.

So Arizona governor -- is claiming victory but the ruling was otherwise a sweeping affirmation of the federal government's Old Dominion over the nation's immigration policy and the enforcement of its immigration laws.

Arizona and some other states had taken -- view that they could pass immigration laws of their own.

So long as they were quote mirror images of federal law.

Such laws would allow state authorities to enforce federal immigration laws even indeed especially where defense for whatever reason Jews chose not to.

That idea is now out the window all that's left is a limited authority to ask people about their immigration status if they have no papers and state laws requiring people to have such papers.

Are now also out the window there -- little local authorities can do.

They can -- the -- to step in but the Department of Homeland Security let it be known today it is suspending its program of letting Arizona cops help enforce the law.

Governor brewer would seem to need another word for this outcome because victory doesn't work --

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