Arizona immigration bill

The new arizona immigration bill had portions of it overturned, for now, today. Regardless of which way you feel about it, it does bring up an interesting point about international relations.

In regards to any law that deals with international issues, would it not be wise to have our main portion of government deal with it? If a patchwork of differing laws between different states takes place on any issue, how then should the government respond to the international community? The only logical solution would be for each individual state(with the different laws) to deal with the international community by itself.

This would effectively take us back to the articles of confederation, no? Ok, maybe not all at once, and maybe not with all issues, but the fact is that we've already tried that. We've already had that argument in the 1770's. Federalism won.

Granted, something needs to be done about immigration. However, that is also why we have state representatives.

You have a right to elect a representative to voice your opinions. You have the right to send that representative to Washington to voice your ideas and concerns. You have the freedom to band together, elect more representatives of like mind, and start the ball of change rolling. We also all have the right and the responsibility in this very large group called the United States of America to respect the majority and even all other minorities trying to get their voice heard, and abide by the decisions made by the majorities.

Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me