Argue as you may about states' rights regarding things like taxes, education, regulation of business, etc., immigration seems like a no-brainer to be within the federal purview (once someone sneaks across the border, they don't necessarily stay in one state). Sure, it's going to be politically challenging- what isn't these days? But the more Congress stalls on important issues like this, the more states are going to take them on themselves. Once that happens, the states see it as their own issue and by the time the federal government comes around to enacting legislation (which automatically overrides state legislation via the Supremacy Clause) teapartiers have another rallying cry against the federal government as being overly expansive. What's worse: getting into another tough political fight about policy or getting into another tough ideological fight about the size of government?
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