WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday struck down significant portions of the controversial Arizona immigration law, but allowed to stand a hot-button provision that requires police officers to review the immigration status of any detainees they suspect of being in the United States illegally.
The high court, reviewing four portions of the law, struck down three, saying that the state had overstepped its authority by making it a state crime for immigrants not to register with the federal government, or for illegal immigrants to seek work or hold a job. It also threw out a provision that would allow police to arrest suspected illegal immigrants without a warrant.
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So, what you're saying is "Don't arrest me, I'm white?" L - O - L!! L - O - L!!
To be clear: that was sarcasm.
Where is looney tunes LeHigh on this one? Obama's immigration policy is "go for the votes". If we had two million Lithuanians in this country, he would grant them citizenship if they promised to vote for him. We are supposed to be heartless if we hope the President does his sworn duty to uphold the laws of the U.S. Hey, if he doesn't agree with Congress or the Supreme Court he just wings it. The globe estimated the take for this tax payer spnsored fund raiser when the sponsors didn't release the figures. That figures. If you can't report facts, make something up. Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. Bostonians may wake up in time to get off this train headed nowhere with Obama pulling the whistle as it topples off the tracks.
Not sure if I would recommend my Latino friends to vacation in beautiful Arizona.
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A person with nothing to hide should have no problem demonstrating he is a citizen when asked. Can someone explain what the difficulty is?
The King has moved: Next, the administration announced measures designed to undermine the portion of the Arizona law that was upheld, unanimously, by the Supreme Court. The Department of Homeland Security said it would exclude Arizona from a program known as 287(g), which allows the feds to deputize local officials to make immigration-based arrests. A Homeland Security official explained that the administration finds such agreements "not useful" in states that have Arizona-style laws. I guess the program is "useful" only in states that aren't taking meaningful measures to identify illegal aliens. Accordingly, local police in Arizona will have to rely on federal officials to arrest illegal aliens. But federal officials have made it clear that the feds will not respond to calls from Arizona law enforcement unless the person detained meets certain criteria, such as being wanted for a felony. Being an illegal alien is not enough. As Obama showed with his unilateral mini-DREAM act, this administration is no longer interested in enforcing the immigration laws except perhaps against illegal aliens who are shown to have engaged in felonious conduct. In addition, the Justice Department set up a hotline through which people can complain about having their immigration status checked by Arizona law enforcement officials. Obama thus hopes to drum up complaints against Arizona law enforcement agents. He wants to make the federal government a party to the harassment of those trying to do what Obama won't – enforce the law. Obama hopes to intimidate them into not using their authority to address the severe problem of illegal immigration — authority granted by the state legislature and upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court.
Here's the first sentence from today's Globe parent NY times editorial.-------------"The Supreme Court rejected the foundation of Arizona's cold-blooded immigration law and the indefensible notion the state can have its own foreign policy" ....This utterly FALSE statement by the Times is all you need to know about the thinking of the owners of the Globe, and of the Globe's editors and writers.------First we all know that Arizona, to avoid being OVERRUN with illegals only did the job of enforcing the federal immigration law, which our Soviet leader, Barack Obama, has now revealed that he will NEVER enforce.-------------------------------------------------------- And now let's talk about the Times remark that "the state can have its own foreign policy". This suggests that our Leader has been quite successful in administering America's foreign policy.--------------So let's discuss some of Obama's foreign policy achievements...First: the "Arab Spring" operation. This has led to the Muslim Brotherhood taking over Egypt's government. The Brotherhood has pledged to END Egypt's 30 year peace agreement with Israel. So Obama is actually ANTI-ISRAEL.---- Next: Our foreign policy LEADER does nothing about Syria. Nothing about Hamas and Hezbolla. He lets North Korea test nukes. And he has NO INTENTION of confronting Iran's nuclear program. And Iran's leaders KNOW that they are dealing with a WEAKLING and a COWARD...In fact he HELPS Iran by LEAKING Classified Military Secrets about US and Israel's intelligence operations against Iran........ Any state's "Foreign policy", if any, would be better than Barack Obama's, which isn't worth the paper it is printed on.