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Interesting. Really, I don't think that there's anything in the Constitution preventing States from passing an identical law to the Federal law and enforcing it. I think that this decision merely says that state executive branches can enforce federal laws and that it's unnecessary for the state legislatures to write an identical state law.
A more interesting question might be: Why does the executive branch of the federal government fail to enforce the laws passed by Congress? Isn't that their job?