than deemen idesing because arizona was selected by the federal government. it was no accident. this is not occurring because the federal government has not acted. it s the opposite. it s because they funneled everybody through arizona to elect the likes of mr. pierce. oh my. in order to become a laboratory for everything that s anti-immigrant. state nor pierce, let me give you the last word here. he s gone? dog gone it! isabelle, thank you for being here. yes, thank you very much. thank you to state senator pierce, the author of arizona s tough new immigration law that is being challenged by the obama administration s justice department. while we re bringing you news from around the world, we are waufing the web. ines ferre is surfing for us. he s keeping everyone in suspense, lebron james. he s going to say where he goes tomorrow. also, the king of basketball is on twitter now. you are watching cnn newsroom.
meineke. we have the coolest customers. arizona has been served. the justice department has filed a lawsuit challenging the state s new immigration law. arguing that only the federal government has the power to regulate immigration. the conversation i had with the author of the law and an opponent was so good it was. it was heated, it was informed, i wanted to bring more of it to you. once again, here is state senator russell pierce and isabelle garcia, deputy public defender in pima county, arizona. we continue to point the finger at the feds, and should. they have been absolutely absent on this issue while america is being destroyed. and your other guest on here talks about immigrants. you know, and mixes the two issues. how insulting. you know, legal immigration is something we raise. this is about illegal aliens and the damage. 26-year high in unemployment and yet we think it s okay to break
up the appeals chain. i think this is going to go to the district court in arizona first but then likely to the circuit court of appeals and. reporter: likely to the supreme court. i would like to stake issue with what the sheriff said. just because the federal government has been fully successful in immigration, that s not necessarily a legal justification for overruling the supremacy clause. if, for example, mexico was really crossing the border and doing terrible things to people in arizona, that wouldn t be arizona s right to declare war on mexico. the law says there are certain areas that are just reserved for the federal government even if the federal government isn t doing the best job at it. okay, emotions as you know, running really high on both sides of this showdown on illegal immigration. we will talk with the author of the arizona law, state senator russell pierce. man, that s going to be good, and public defender isabelle garcia, who opposes the law. that discussion i
law but nobody cares about that or sue over that but we sue arizona for enforcing the law and protecting our citizens. the cost is huge. i mentioned the new study, 2.7 billion to arizona. in this business, that they re s contributing, that s not true. they are taking jobs from americans and costing americans mills and mills of dollars in social costs and the crime again. statistics, facts. before we lose you, state nor pierce, isabelle, democratic leadership, we have a list of 11 republican senators who voted for immigration reform in 2006 who aren t doing much in the way of leadership on this issue at all right now. right. i can read the names but we won t because we re running out of the time, but democratic leadership on this issue isn t moving it forward as well. do you have any anger right now for speaker pelosi, senate
welcome back to the cnn newsroom. welcome back to the conversation we re having here. let s introduce the guests. fir of all, state nor russell pierce, author of arizona s tough new immigration law, and isabelle garcia, deputy public defender in people ma county, arizona. it s clear from the last three minutes we re just fighting one another over this issue here and let me just ask this question. you acknowledge that it at some point becomes a federal issue, and we re here because the government hasn t done enough in this area. and i m curious, are you as angry at congress, all of congress, for not enacting new immigration legislation, and that is republicans, democrats and independents?