Please answer C & D In 2010 Arizona passed a law that sought to reduce the number of undocumented immigrants in the state. The law made it a crime to seek or obtain work in the state without proper documentation, and it also made hiring, sheltering, or transporting undocumented people illegal. It also gave local law enforcement the authority to require proof of residency in the course of a lawful arrest, and it gave them the authority to perform warrantless stops of people they suspected of being undocumented.

The United States Department of Justice challenged the state law as an interference with the national government’s enumerated powers to regulate and enforce immigration law. In Arizona v. United States (2012), the Supreme Court agreed with the United States in a 6-3 decision stating most provisions of the law did conflict with federal authority. The court said, “The Government of the United States has broad, undoubted power over the subject of immigration.

C. Identify one principle of the U. S. government other than federalism that can be seen in the scenario above and explain how that principle applies to this situation.

D. Identify the two branches of government that appear in this scenario and describe the powers of each of those branches.