[rmnunez]

There is evidence of enhanced conflicts between state and federal powers in the US under Bush and there are federalist advocates in the US Congress and Senate who apply their arguments against federal encroachments. After the hurricanes governors decried their lack of means to address the emergency since their National Guardsmen, those helicopters, tents and trucks had all been sent to Iraq -this was a challenge to executive encroachments. In the immigration debate the same thing has happened as states clash with federal policy.