alabama simply doesn't have the authority to create its own immigration scheme. >> suarez: kris kobach, that's been the objection in a lot of states that have tried legislation of this kind. how do you answer that argument? >> well, the supreme court has answered it for me. the supreme court of the eyes has ruled on this issue of whether states can take steps to stop illegal immigration. let's be clear, it's about illegal immigration, not immigration generally. and the supreme court ruled once this past may, just a few months ago and said that arizona's twechk law to prevent employers from knowingly hiring unauthorized aliens, they upheld that law, ruled in favor of the state and prior to that it was 1976 the last time the supreme court ruled on this issue. there it was a california law and the supreme court in that case, too, said the states do have the authority to take these steps to discourage illegal immigration. the question in preelse, which is what this case is all about, to simplify it, does the state law conflict with any law that congress has passed? and the interesting ng t