Reappraising ‘Arizona’
The states trying to get control of their borders have the Constitution on their side, and may yet get another hearing before the Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia offers a guide.

The states are stepping up to fix President Biden’s migrant crisis — and the New York Times is none too pleased. State measures to protect their borders “could devastate their states’ economies, lead to racial and ethnic profiling,” and even “advance dangerous visions of undocumented immigrants as hostile invaders and aliens,” the Times frets, with no evidence. Yet the states have the Constitution on their side, and may yet get another hearing before the Nine on this question.
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