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Being basically part of the administrative apparatus dealing with immigration. that's problem one. problem to two is the law itself tries to reduce the states and localities into administrative cogs in the machinery of the federal government and the supreme court said in the 1997 case dealing with the brady handgun violence prevention act that you can't -- the federal government cannot commandeer the resources and the bureaucracies of state and local governments. >> in fact, this is an abiding belief -- >> that one i think will be out the window. >> it's an abiding belief of conservative justi...

Either you do what we say or we're going to cut off all federal funding to your state. the first problem with that is that the supreme court has been very clear that where there's a quid pro quo like that it has to be explicit and unambiguous in the original statute so if a state were to be collecting money from the department of education, for example, or the department of state it would have to say right there this money is conditioned on your cooperating with us in terms of being basically part of the administrative apparatus dealing with immigration. that's problem one. problem to two is t...