http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/29/arizona-appeals-ruling-immigration-law/
PHOENIX -- Arizona asked an appeals court Thursday to lift a judge's order blocking most of the state's immigration law as the city of Phoenix filled with protesters, including about 50 who were arrested for confronting officers in riot gear....

...Outside the state Capitol, hundreds of protesters began marching at dawn, gathering in front of the federal courthouse where Bolton issued her ruling on Wednesday. They marched on to the office of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has made a crackdown on illegal immigration one of his signature issues....

...Marchers chanted "Sheriff Joe, we are here, we will not live in fear," and in the crowd was a drummer wearing a papier-mache Sheriff Joe head and dressed in prison garb.

It's amazing to me just how batshit crazy insane this is making some folks. 

Arpaio vowed to go ahead with a crime sweep targeting illegal immigrants. Phoenix police made most the early arrests, before protesters moved to the jail.

"My deputies will arrest them and put them in pink underwear," Arpaio said, referring to one of his odd methods of punishment for prisoners. "Count on it."

 Arizona is the nation's epicenter of illegal immigration, with more than 400,000 undocumented residents (JIM W calls these ILLEGAL ALIENS). The state's border with Mexico is awash with smugglers and drugs that funnel narcotics and immigrants throughout the U.S., and supporters of the new law say the influx of illegal migrants drains vast sums of money from hospitals, education and other services.

In Tucson, between 50 and 100 people gathered at a downtown street corner to both protest and defend the new law on Thursday morning. Tucson police spokeswoman Linda Galindo said one man was arrested for threatening people in the other group.

Does anyone else find it ironic that in one city, protestors said they wouldn't live in fear, while in another, a man was arrested for threatening people in another group, thus creating fear?

Bottom line for me on this issue, the fed should be enforcing the very same FEDERAL laws that are on the books, but aren't.  It's an over reach by the Fed to go after AZ on this issue.  If Arizona's laws are unconstitutional, then doesn't that make the fed's laws also unconstitutional?  Where do you stand on this issue??