Amicus Curiae Brief — James Uthmeier, Attorney General of Florida, et al., Applicants v. Florida Immigrant Coalition, et al.
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No. 24A1269
In the Supreme Court of the United States
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JAMES UTHMEIER, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF FLORIDA,
ET AL.,
Applicants,
v.
FLORIDA IMMIGRANT COALITION, ET AL.,
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Respondents.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL FROM THE
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
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BRIEF FOR AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION
AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF APPLICANTS
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DANIEL Z. EPSTEIN
America First Legal Foundation
611 Pennsylvania Avenue SE #231
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 964-3721
daniel.epstein@aflegal.org
CHRISTOPHER E. MILLS
Counsel of Record
Spero Law LLC
557 East Bay Street #22251
Charleston, SC 29413
(843) 606-0640
cmills@spero.law
Counsel for Amicus Curiae
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Authorities ....................................................................................................... ii
Interest of Amicus Curiae.............................................................................................. 1
Summary of the Argument ............................................................................................ 1
Argument ....................................................................................................................... 3
I. Preemption requires a federal–state conflict; overlap is not enough. ................ 3
II. Federal law does not preempt Florida’s law. ....................................................... 6
Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 13
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
CASES
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 570 U.S. 1 (2013)............................. 7
Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. 387 (2012) ..................................................... 10, 12
Bd. of Governors of Fed. Rsrv. Sys. v. Dimension Fin. Corp., 474 U.S. 361 (1986)... 10
California v. ARC Am. Corp., 490 U.S. 93 (1989) ...................................................... 12
California v. Zook, 336 U.S. 725 (1949) .................................................................... 5, 8
Chamber of Com. of U.S. v. Whiting, 563 U.S. 582 (2011) ....................................... 5, 8
Crosby v. Nat’l Foreign Trade Council, 530 U.S. 363 (2000) ....................................... 3
CSX Transp., Inc. v. Easterwood, 507 U.S. 658 (1993) ................................................ 7
DeCanas v. Bica, 424 U.S. 351 (1976) ................................................................... 10, 12
English v. Gen. Elec. Co., 496 U.S. 72 (1990) ....................................................... 3, 6, 9
Gregory v. Ashcroft, 501 U.S. 452 (1991) ...................................................................... 3
Hillsborough Cnty. v. Automated Med. Lab’ys, Inc., 471 U.S. 707 (1985) ............... 4, 6
Kansas v. Garcia, 589 U.S. 191 (2020) ......................................................... 4, 6, 10, 11
Keller v. City of Fremont, 719 F.3d 931 (CA8 2013) ..................................................... 9
Kurns v. R.R. Friction Prods. Corp., 565 U.S. 625 (2012) ............................................ 3
Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369 (2024) .............................................. 4
Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr, 518 U.S. 470 (1996) ........................................................ 5, 7, 8
PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing, 564 U.S. 604 (2011) ............................................................... 3
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982) ............................................................................... 12
Puerto Rico Dep’t of Consumer Affs. v. Isla Petroleum Corp.,
485 U.S. 495 (1988) .......................................................................................... 6, 9, 10
United States v. Texas, 97 F.4th 268 (CA5 2024) ....................................................... 10
Villas at Parkside Partners v. City of Farmers Branch, 726 F.3d 524 (CA5 2013) ... 12
Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, 587 U.S. 761 (2019) .............................................. 9
Wyeth v. Levine, 555 U.S. 555 (2009) ............................................................................ 3
Zyla Life Scis., LLC v. Wells Pharma of Houston, LLC,
134 F.4th 326 (CA5 2025) ............................................................................ 5, 6, 8, 11
CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS
U.S. Const. art. I, § 10 ................................................................................................... 3
U.S. Const. art. VI, cl. 2 ................................................................................................. 3
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U.S. Const. amend. X ..................................................................................................... 3
STATUTES
8 U.S.C. § 1324a ............................................................................................................. 9
8 U.S.C. § 1325 ..................................................................................................... 7, 9, 11
8 U.S.C. § 1326 ......................................................................................................... 7, 11
Fla. Stat. § 811.101 ........................................................................................................ 2
Fla. Stat. § 811.102 .................................................................................................... 2, 7
Fla. Stat. § 811.103 .................................................................................................... 2, 7
Fla. Stat. § 908.111 ........................................................................................................ 2
OTHER AUTHORITIES
Exec. Order No. 14159, 90 Fed. Reg. 8443 (Jan. 20, 2025) ...................................... 1, 2
Note, Preemption As Purposivism’s Last Refuge,
126 Harv. L. Rev. 1056 (2013) ............................................................................. 4, 10
Off. Legal Couns., Non-Preemption of the Authority of State and Local Law
Enforcement Officials to Arrest Aliens for Immigration Violations (2002),
https://perma.cc/TS4N-J4D5.................................................................................... 11
S. Gardbaum, The Nature of Preemption, 79 Corn. L. Rev. 767 (1994) ................... 4, 5
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INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE
America First Legal Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to
promoting the rule of law in the United States by ensuring due process and equal
protection for every American citizen and encouraging understanding of the law and
individual rights guaranteed under the Constitution and laws of the United States.
AFL has a substantial interest in this case. Ensuring compliance with the Nation’s
immigration laws, protecting national sovereignty, and promoting the rule of law are
core institutional interests at the heart of its mission. *
SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT
Facing States in this country is “an unprecedented flood of illegal immigration.”
Exec. Order No. 14159 § 1, 90 Fed. Reg. 8443 (Jan. 20, 2025). These illegal immigrants can “present significant threats to national security and public safety,
committing vile and heinous acts against innocent Americans.” Ibid. Some are
“engaged in hostile activities, including espionage, economic espionage, and
preparations for terror-related activities.” Ibid. And “[m]any have abused the
generosity of the American people, and their presence in the United States has cost
taxpayers billions of dollars at the Federal, State, and local levels.” Ibid. Thus, the
United States recently reiterated its “obligation to prioritize the safety, security, and
financial and economic well-being of Americans,” including by working with “State
and local law enforcement agencies.” Id. §§ 1, 11.
* In accordance with Rule 37.6, no counsel for a party authored this brief in whole or in part, and no
person or entity, other than amicus curiae, its members, or its counsel, made a monetary contribution
to its preparation or submission.
The State of Florida especially suffered from the influx of illegal immigrants
“[o]ver the last 4 years.” Id. § 1. Not only did its citizens face safety and employment
challenges from illegal immigration, but its public health and welfare systems—
funded by taxpaying citizens—were drained. To address these severe burdens,
Florida recently prohibited entry into and presence within Florida by illegal
immigrants. Fla. Stat. §§ 811.102, 811.103. Florida’s definition of “unauthorized
alien” tracks the definition in “the federal Immigration and Nationality Act” and
“shall be interpreted consistently with any applicable federal statutes, rules, or
regulations.” Id. § 908.111(1)(d); see id. § 811.101(2). After making an arrest under
this law, Florida law enforcement must notify the federal Department of Homeland
Security with details about the unauthorized alien. This statute promotes the federal
interest in using “all available law enforcement tools to faithfully execute the
immigration laws of the United States.” Exec. Order. No. 14159 § 6(c).
Yet the courts below held that challengers to the law were likely to succeed in
showing that Florida law is preempted by the federal law that it mirrors. That holding
was in error. Preemption requires some conflict between federal and state law; mere
overlap is not enough. But there is no conflict here: Florida law prohibits entry into
and presence in Florida by individuals not lawfully authorized to be anywhere in the
United States. Federal law does not guarantee the ability of unauthorized aliens to
enter Florida or any other State. Thus, the lower courts erred in holding that the
challengers were likely to succeed on their preemption claim, and the Court should
grant a stay.
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ARGUMENT
I. Preemption requires a federal–state conflict; overlap is not enough.
“The Supremacy Clause establishes that federal law ‘shall be the supreme Law of
the Land . . . any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary
notwithstanding.’” PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing, 564 U.S. 604, 617 (2011) (quoting U.S.
Const. art. VI, cl. 2). Under this Clause, “state law is naturally preempted to the
extent of any conflict with” federal law. Crosby v. Nat’l Foreign Trade Council, 530
U.S. 363, 372 (2000). But it cannot be preempted absent a conflict. The States have
general police power to legislate unless prohibited by the Constitution. See U.S.
Const. amend. X; id. art. I, § 10; Gregory v. Ashcroft, 501 U.S. 452, 457–58 (1991). So
only if federal law requires preemption of state law—either expressly or impliedly,
because the laws are in contradiction—must state law yield. See Kurns v. R.R.
Friction Prods. Corp., 565 U.S. 625, 630 (2012). Otherwise, state law cannot be
superseded. See Wyeth v. Levine, 555 U.S. 555, 565 (2009).
The courts below relied on field preemption, a type of implied preemption. Under
this doctrine, “state law is pre-empted where it regulates conduct in a field that
Congress intended the Federal Government to occupy exclusively.” English v. Gen.
Elec. Co., 496 U.S. 72, 79 (1990). Field preemption is properly “understood as a species
of conflict pre-emption: A state law that falls within a pre-empted field conflicts with
Congress’ intent (either express or plainly implied) to exclude state regulation.” Id.
at 79 n.5. Of course, if Congress’s intent is express, then express preemption can be
found. So field preemption becomes relevant only when Congress declined to
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expressly preempt state law, it is possible to comply with both sets of laws, and there
is no direct conflict otherwise between the laws.
Field preemption is—and should be—“rare.” Kansas v. Garcia, 589 U.S. 191, 208
(2020); see id. at 214 n.* (Thomas, J., concurring). Indeed, the doctrine sits uneasily
with modern principles of statutory interpretation and federalism. “[A]t the outset of
th[e] [field preemption] analysis courts must confront a puzzler: how could Congress
have ‘left no room for supplementary state regulation’ when the [federal] statute
le[aves] open the precise type of state regulation at issue?” Note, Preemption As
Purposivism’s Last Refuge, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 1056, 1068 (2013). “[M]erely because
the federal provisions [a]re sufficiently comprehensive to meet the need identified by
Congress d[oes] not mean that States and localities [a]re barred from identifying
additional needs or imposing further requirements in the field.” Hillsborough Cnty.
v. Automated Med. Lab’ys, Inc., 471 U.S. 707, 717 (1985).
“Presumptions have their place in statutory interpretation, but only to the extent
that they approximate reality.” Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369, 399
(2024). And “the doctrine that comprehensive regulation automatically provides
evidence of congressional intent to preempt ignores alternative interpretations of that
intent in a way that potentially distorts the result that would be reached upon a fair
reading of the statute.” S. Gardbaum, The Nature of Preemption, 79 Corn. L. Rev.
767, 812 (1994). After all, “Congress may perfectly plausibly intend or not intend to
preempt the states regardless of the pervasiveness of its scheme of regulation.” Ibid.
For instance, “Congress may intend that states be allowed to supplement federal
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regulation,” it “may not have considered whether or not to preempt,” or it “may have
considered preemption without reaching any conclusion.” Ibid. “[O]rdinary statutory
interpretation” thus “provides little support for any analysis suggesting that
extensive occupation of a field automatically creates a presumption of intent to
preempt.” Ibid. If anything, field preemption seems to be “artificially imposed on the
interpretive process as a holdover from the period before the radical expansion in the
scope of Congress’s interstate commerce power.” Ibid. By making unfounded
assumptions about congressional intent, field preemption may “undercut the
principle that it is Congress rather than the courts that pre-empts state law.”
Chamber of Com. of U.S. v. Whiting, 563 U.S. 582, 607 (2011) (plurality opinion).
Field preemption is also often “inconsistent with modern federalism and its
presumption that states retain concurrent powers.” Gardbaum, supra, at 812.
“[B]ecause the States are independent sovereigns in our federal system, [courts] have
long presumed that Congress does not cavalierly pre-empt state-law causes of action.”
Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr, 518 U.S. 470, 485 (1996). “States may have a legitimate
interest in punishing or providing redress for wrongs even if federal law already does
so.” Zyla Life Scis., LLC v. Wells Pharma of Houston, LLC, 134 F.4th 326, 333 (CA5
2025). For instance, “[t]he Federal Government is not the only one with an interest
in criminalizing murder or rape.” Ibid.; see California v. Zook, 336 U.S. 725, 738
(1949) (“[T]he State may punish . . . for the safety and welfare of its inhabitants; the
nation may punish for the safety and welfare of interstate commerce. There is no
conflict.”). And “the Federal Government often has an interest in allowing parallel
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state regulation.” Zyla, 134 F.4th at 333. It has “limited resources” so “often welcomes
state aid in enforcing shared legal norms.” Id. at 334.
For all these reasons, courts must carefully “look for special features warranting
pre-emption” based on supposed federal occupation of a regulatory field.
Hillsborough, 471 U.S. at 719. “[O]therwise, deliberate federal inaction could always
imply pre-emption, which cannot be.” Puerto Rico Dep’t of Consumer Affs. v. Isla
Petroleum Corp., 485 U.S. 495, 503 (1988). Mere “overlap” is not enough. Garcia, 589
U.S. at 211. As shown next, the courts below failed here to identify any special
features warranting preemption of Florida’s regulation of entry into and presence
within the State.
II. Federal law does not preempt Florida’s law.
As this Court has explained, “[t]he question whether the regulation of an entire
field has been reserved by the Federal Government is, essentially, a question of
ascertaining the intent underlying the federal scheme.” Hillsborough, 471 U.S. at
714. Generally, “[s]uch an intent may be inferred from a scheme of federal regulation
so pervasive as to make reasonable the inference that Congress left no room for the
States to supplement it, or where an Act of Congress touches a field in which the
federal interest is so dominant that the federal system will be assumed to preclude
enforcement of state laws on the same subject.” English, 496 U.S. at 79 (cleaned up).
Critically, however, “‘[t]here is no federal preemption in vacuo,’ without a
constitutional text, federal statute, or treaty made under the authority of the United
States.” Garcia, 589 U.S. at 202 (quoting Puerto Rico, 485 U.S. at 503). While the
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Court has “frequently said that pre-emption analysis requires ascertaining
congressional intent,” it has “never meant that to signify congressional intent in a
vacuum, unrelated to the giving of meaning to an enacted statutory text.” Puerto Rico,
485 U.S. at 501. Rather, “[e]vidence of pre-emptive purpose is sought in the text and
structure of the statute at issue.” CSX Transp., Inc. v. Easterwood, 507 U.S. 658, 664
(1993); see Garcia, 589 U.S. at 202 (“‘Invoking some brooding federal interest or
appealing to a judicial policy preference’ does not show preemption.”); see also
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 570 U.S. 1, 14 (2013) (“[T]he statutory
text accurately communicates the scope of Congress’s pre-emptive intent.”).
Preemption analysis begins with “a careful comparison between the allegedly preempting federal requirement and the allegedly pre-empted state requirement.”
Medtronic, 518 U.S. at 500. Here, federal law prohibits entry into and presence in the
United States by certain unauthorized aliens. 8 U.S.C. §§ 1325, 1326. Florida law, in
turn, prohibits entry into and presence in Florida by the same set of unauthorized
aliens. Fla. Stat. §§ 811.102, 811.103. It also requires that “the arresting law
enforcement agency” notify the federal government of the alien’s arrest. Id.
§§ 811.102(7), 811.103(6).
There is no conflict between these provisions. Specifically, there is no conflict
between the United States excluding unauthorized aliens and Florida excluding the
same unauthorized aliens. The courts below did not explain a plausible reading of the
federal statutes that would suggest Congress disapproved of state efforts to limit
entry by persons whose entry it was also prohibiting. Florida is not regulating the
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entry or reentry of anyone into the United States. It is only regulating the entry or
reentry of a group of people with respect to Florida—and echoing the federal
regulation. By “us[ing] the Federal Government’s own definition of ‘unauthorized
alien,’” Florida “has taken the route least likely to cause tension with federal law.”
Whiting, 563 U.S. at 611 (emphasis added); cf. Medtronic, 518 U.S. at 495 (no
preemption where state “duties parallel federal requirements”); Zook, 336 U.S. at 735
(explaining that “there is no conflict in terms, and no possibility of such conflict,
[when] the state statute makes federal law its own”); Zyla, 134 F.4th at 334–35
(collecting “many state statutes [that] incorporate federal criminal requirements”).
Indeed, there would not be a conflict even if Florida law swept beyond the federal
law about alien entry, for nothing in the federal statutes cited by the challengers
gives unauthorized aliens or anyone else the right to enter Florida. By analogy,
suppose that Florida banned the entry or presence of persons convicted of any federal
crime. The statutory preemption question would be whether any federal statute
required Florida to allow convicted criminals to enter or remain in the state. Absent
such a statute, that Congress had criminalized the underlying conduct—or imposed
its own limitations on criminals’ interstate movements—does not suggest an intent
to guarantee individuals the right to enter particular states.
So too here. The federal statutes set a regulatory floor for entry and reentry into
the United States. Nothing in the text of the relevant provisions suggests that
Congress wanted that floor to be a ceiling for individual States, too. Congress knows
how to preempt state laws pertaining to immigration when it wants to. See, e.g., 8
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U.S.C. § 1324a(h)(2) (preempting certain state laws “imposing civil or criminal
sanctions” “upon those who employ, or recruit or refer for a fee for employment,
unauthorized aliens”). But it did not do so here. And “[l]aws designed to deter, or even
prohibit, unlawfully present aliens from residing within a particular locality are not
tantamount to immigration laws establishing who may enter or remain in the
country.” Keller v. City of Fremont, 719 F.3d 931, 941 (CA8 2013).
Courts may not “seek[] out conflicts between state and federal regulation where
none clearly exists.” English, 496 U.S. at 90. Yet the courts below “draw exaggerated
inferences from” generic descriptions of federal immigration law as “comprehensive.”
Puerto Rico, 485 U.S. at 503; see App. 8a, 264a. One might wonder whether the short
statutes in §§ 1325 and 1326 can fairly be characterized as “comprehensive,” at least
in a way that would not apply to the whole federal code. At any rate, “[a] sound
preemption analysis cannot be as simplistic as that.” Virginia Uranium, Inc. v.
Warren, 587 U.S. 761, 778 (2019) (opinion of Gorsuch, J.). Supposed “comprehensiveness” only matters to preemption if “a comprehensive federal scheme intentionally
leaves a portion of the regulated field without controls.” Puerto Rico, 485 U.S. at 503.
Only in that circumstance—when there is federal “inaction joined with action”—can
a “pre-emptive inference can be drawn.” Ibid.
But there is nothing like that here, for there is no relevant “inaction” prescribed
by these federal statutes. They prohibit the same thing as Florida law does: entry and
presence by unauthorized aliens. The federal statutes do not suggest any intent to
prohibit overlapping state regulation. And “[w]ithout a text that can . . . plausibly be
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interpreted as prescribing federal pre-emption[,] it is impossible to find that” entry
into Florida without state consequence is “mandated by federal law.” Puerto Rico, 485
U.S. at 501. Invocation of broad-brush descriptions “of legislation at the expense of
the terms of the statute itself . . . prevents the effectuation of congressional intent.”
Bd. of Governors of Fed. Rsrv. Sys. v. Dimension Fin. Corp., 474 U.S. 361, 374 (1986).
The courts below also extrapolated from field preemption of alien registration
statutes in Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. 387, 401 (2012) (“field of alien
registration”), to field preemption of “control[ling] immigration” broadly. App. 267a;
see App. 8a–9a. But this Court “has never extended field preemption to any part of
the immigration laws beyond alien registration.” United States v. Texas, 97 F.4th 268,
298 (CA5 2024) (Oldham, J., dissenting). That federal law might “create a
comprehensive and unified system” for alien registration does not mean that federal
law comprehensively regulates immigration generally or entry into each State
specifically. Garcia, 589 U.S. at 210.
What’s more, this invocation of a broader field underscores the danger that field
preemption may “give[] the courts power to affect the federal-state balance by
choosing the level of generality at which to define the relevant field.” Note, supra, at
1067. Because of that danger, this Court has repeatedly warned that courts must
carefully identify “the boundaries of th[e] field before [saying] that it has precluded a
state from the exercise of any power reserved to it by the Constitution.” DeCanas v.
Bica, 424 U.S. 351, 360 n.8 (1976); see Garcia, 589 U.S. at 208 (rejecting an effort to
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“define the supposedly preempted field more broadly”). Nothing in §§ 1325 or 1326
reflects a preemptive intent with respect to alien entry or presence.
The district court discerned purported conflicts between Florida and federal law
because an alien might be penalized under state law but escape or suffer less penalty
under federal law, for instance, when “federal actors may choose not to” prosecute
illegal immigrants. App. 266a. But that is true of every regime with overlapping
federal and state regulation. A murderer might face heightened state law
consequences—for instance, in periods when the federal government refuses to seek
the death penalty—but no one could suggest that the federal prohibitions on murder
conflict with state prohibitions. “[I]n the vast majority of cases where federal and
state laws overlap, allowing the States to prosecute is entirely consistent with federal
interests.” Garcia, 589 U.S. at 212. So it is here, given that Florida’s prosecution of
its law mimics and is directly tied to enforcement of federal law. Cf. Off. Legal Couns.,
Non-Preemption of the Authority of State and Local Law Enforcement Officials to
Arrest Aliens for Immigration Violations (2002), https://perma.cc/TS4N-J4D5
(explaining that States may make arrests for federal immigration law violations).
The implications of the district court’s contrary theory “are staggering,”
particularly “[g]iven the extraordinary reach of federal law” in the modern era. Zyla,
134 F.4th at 335. “Practically any conduct the State wants to regulate is already
regulated by the Federal Government.” Ibid. So if the federal system is to be
preserved, States cannot be prevented “from regulating [any]thing federal law
touches.” Ibid. As this Court said in Garcia, “[o]ur federal system would be turned
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upside down if [courts] were to hold that federal . . . law preempts state law whenever
they overlap.” 589 U.S. at 212; see California v. ARC Am. Corp., 490 U.S. 93, 105
(1989) (“[S]tate causes of action are not pre-empted solely because they impose
liability over and above that authorized by federal law.”); see also Villas at Parkside
Partners v. City of Farmers Branch, 726 F.3d 524, 577–78 (CA5 2013) (Jones, J.,
dissenting) (“[C]ourts do not normally call this phenomenon ‘conflict preemption.’
Instead, we call it ‘federalism.’”).
Last, the Eleventh Circuit emphasized “the federal government’s longstanding
and distinct interest in the exclusion and admission of aliens.” App. 9a. But as this
Court has recognized, States have their own interest in “immigration policy,” for they
“bear[ ] many of the consequences of unlawful immigration.” Arizona, 567 U.S. at 397.
“The problems posed to the State by illegal immigration must not be underestimated.”
Id. at 398; see Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, 228 n.23 (1982) (recognizing that
“unchecked unlawful migration might impair the State’s economy generally, or the
State’s ability to provide some important service[s]”). So it is unremarkable that
Florida would choose to implement its own regulations to address the many burdens
of illegal immigration into the State. And there is no predominant “federal interest
in a situation in which the state law is fashioned to remedy local problems,” especially
when it operates “only with respect to individuals whom the Federal Government has
already declared cannot” be in the United States. DeCanas, 424 U.S. at 363. The
challengers here failed to show “evidence that Congress has unmistakably ordained
exclusivity of federal regulation in this field.” Id. at 361 (cleaned up).
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CONCLUSION
For these reasons, the Court should grant a stay.
Respectfully submitted,
DANIEL Z. EPSTEIN
America First Legal Foundation
611 Pennsylvania Avenue SE #231
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 964-3721
daniel.epstein@aflegal.org
CHRISTOPHER E. MILLS
Counsel of Record
Spero Law LLC
557 East Bay Street #22251
Charleston, SC 29413
(843) 606-0640
cmills@spero.law
Counsel for Amicus Curiae
JULY 2, 2025
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