Comment by pjc50
> Enacted at the state level, sure. But it was against the will of the national electorate and they knew it.
This is the most extreme version of the anti-states rights argument and effectively claims the California legislature shouldn't exist.
There are plenty of things that are rightly decided at state level. That doesn't mean it's OK for states to undermine the rules the populace (via their duly elected federal representatives) have chosen to make law at federal level. (And in any case it would be practically impossible to set immigration policy at state level, given that we don't have any intranational border control).