The Constitution gives the federal government the exclusive power to make foreign policy and decide immigration policy. The federal courts have so far been consistent in that interpretation of the Constitution. On this point I don't see the current Supreme Court tossing out decades of precedent. The conservatives on the Court are not looking to hobble the federal government.  You don't have to like that its the job of the feds to do it, but until the Supreme Court changes its precedent that is the current state of the law. If you want to change it to give the states control over immigration feel free to lobby your state's Congressional representatives to start the process to amend the Constitution to make the law more to your liking. My bet is that a proposed amendment to do that would not clear Congress, much less get the approval of 75% of the states to ratify it.

I've said it on these boards before: immigration reform is long overdue and both parties have known that since before this century began. But neither seems willing to work with the other to reach a solution that both can support. There are lot of options between the two extremes on immigration that get the most notice on the internet. One or more of those approaches might achieve real results in stemming the tide of illegal migrants and adjusting our immigration laws to make it easier to attract talented and educated foreign persons to come and live and work in the U.S. Without immigrants, this country will start the slow decline that has already taken root in Japan and is just beginning to be felt in China and South Korea. Russia is speeding up the process of depopulating its country by sacrificing an entire generation of young men on a pointless war. Europe is starting to being the population decline too, slowed only by immigration, much like the situation in this country. Currently U.S. citizens have birth rate well below the 2.1 needed for a stable population, and if we wanted to actually grow our population without immigration the replacement rate would be higher than that. I don't see Americans going back to big families any time soon. So we do need immigrants.

But we need a policy that controls who is coming in and encourages the immigrants most likely to be a net benefit to the country. The only way that's going to happen is if the parties stop playing the game of blaming each other for the immigration situation because it gets them votes and instead come together to do the job they were elected to do: enact legislation to fix the problem.

If I could, I'd fire most members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, for dereliction of duty. They spend more time raising money, grandstanding, and attacking the othe party than they do working to solve the problems of this country. That's not what they were elected to do and that's not what we are paying them a salary to do.