Supreme Court restricts impact of Ga. immigration law
NOTE: This post contains some material previously published on this blog. It is posted here as the electronic version of today’s AJC column.
Publicly, Gov. Nathan Deal embraced Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on illegal immigration, claiming that “it appears the court has upheld the major thrust of our state’s statute: That states have the right to assist in enforcing federal immigration law.”
However, there’s a noticeable undertone of caution in Deal’s statement, and in similar statements by Attorney General Sam Olens. Both men seem to realize that when read in its entirety, the court’s 5-3 opinion to overturn much of Arizona’s controversial immigration law also spells trouble for Georgia’s law.
As Deal notes, the court did recognize that “states have the right to assist” in enforcing federal immigration law. However, the key word in that phrase is “assist.” The five-justice majority was quite clear that the federal government has total authority over immigration law, and that states can assist only to the degree that the federal government allows that assistance.
The court based its ruling in part on the federal government’s clear, longstanding authority on matters of foreign policy.
“It is fundamental that foreign countries concerned about the status, safety, and security of their nationals in the United States must be able to confer and communicate on this subject with one national sovereign, not the 50 separate states,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority.
The court also ruled that federal officials have the exclusive discretion to decide how and even whether to deport those who are here illegally. Contrary to the philosophy behind the Arizona law and Georgia’s HB 87, a policy of “toss-em-all-out” is not required by federal law and cannot be dictated by state legislatures.
“Unauthorized workers trying to support their families, for example, likely pose less danger than alien smugglers or aliens who commit a serious crime,” Kennedy wrote. “The equities of an individual case may turn on many factors, including whether the alien has children born in the United States, long ties to the community or a record of distinguished military service.”
(Among other things, that language suggests that President Obama acted within his constitutional authority when he announced that his administration would not deport illegal immigrants who had been brought here as children and raised and educated as American.)
The court did uphold, at least temporarily, one provision of the Arizona law that is also echoed in Georgia law. In both states, local and state law enforcement are empowered to run immigration checks on anybody whom they arrest or detain, even for minor traffic offenses.
In theory, the justices noted, that authority can be constitutional. But if people end up being detained for long periods of time for no reason other than to let state authorities conduct an immigration check, the law will be reviewed and thrown out.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the case was the broad, even radical dissent filed by Justice Antonin Scalia. He began by arguing that states are sovereign entities, then complained that the majority opinion “deprives states of what most would consider the defining characteristic of sovereignty: the power to exclude from the sovereign’s territory people who have no right to be there.” In effect, Scalia was advancing the novel notion that states have an inherent right to control who crosses their borders.
“Even in its international relations, the federal government must live with the inconvenient fact that it is a union of independent states, who have their own sovereign powers,” Scalia wrote.
Just as remarkably, Scalia used his dissent to launch a political attack on Obama’s recent decision not to deport an estimated 1.4 million illegal immigrants who were brought here as children. Referring slyly to “the executive’s unwise targeting” of resources to combat illegal immigration, Scalia wrote:
“The husbanding of scarce enforcement resources can hardly be the justification for this, since the considerable administrative cost of conducting as many as 1.4 million background checks, and ruling on the biennial requests for dispensation that the non-enforcement program envisions, will necessarily be deducted from immigration enforcement.”
At a time when the court is already under suspicion of indulging in partisan politics. Scalia plays a dangerous and irresponsible game with judicial credibility.
– Jay Bookman
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HOT AIR
June 26th, 2012
10:54 am
Philosophy of socialists (progressives) – redistribution of the wealth. Stealing from those that have and giving to those that didn’t work for it.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
June 26th, 2012
10:55 am
“Very few socialists have the guts to admit publicly they are socialists”
considering none of us advocate for the government to take over business/property, it’s funny how that works …
larry
June 26th, 2012
10:56 am
Fresh, clean , sheeeetssssssssssss
They BOTH suck
June 26th, 2012
10:59 am
Tom
Thanks for the reply, however I’m just stating the reality. We have young men and women, who are in that demographic you seem to diss, who have their @$$ on the line at this very moment
Once again, I do appreciate your service (my father is retired military), but what I said it true
Tom(Independent-Viet Vet USAF)
June 26th, 2012
10:59 am
CJ@10:36 – You have got to have some common sense just to get on the internet? All stations (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, talk shows, etc stated that FACT about 50% of Americans paying no federal/state taxes. Get your head out of the sand and wake up dude.Yes I watch Fox and CNN, some shows are BS, on both sides.Got a question for you, do you believe in earning what you achieve or do you want the govt to just provide for you?? No BS, give me a real answer?
JKL2
June 26th, 2012
11:01 am
steve- …”Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”,
That’s the problem, many illegal aliens have no intention of ever becoming American’s. We used to be the “great melting pot”. Thanks to liberals, we are now the “unmelting ‘celebrate diversity and watch out for your own best interest’ pot”
kayaker 71
June 26th, 2012
11:03 am
USinUK, 10:47,
Give me your tired, your weak…. give me free health care in an overcrowded emergency room. Give me free rein to have anchor babies in your country so I can maintain some sort of residency. Give me food stamps, subsidized education benefits for my illegal children that were not born here. Let me break the bank of the state of CA, the illegal immigrant capital of the world, with a 20B dollar deficit that will ultimately be paid by the US taxpayer. Then when American taxpayers complain about the unfairness, accuse them of not caring and “profiling” and “discrimination”. Let me invade cities with latino gangs to perpetrate crimes like the M-13 gang. Let me represent an astounding 3 in every 4 male prisoners in the state of CA at a cost to the CA taxpayer and to the Federal government that boggles the mind.
But those who oppose this insanity are accused of unheard of ridicule and protest. Wake up. Ellis Island is closed and the new Ellis Island is the Southern Border of the United States of America.
Tundra Dude
June 26th, 2012
11:03 am
Agree that the border can’t be sealed completly. But crossings have been greatly reduced.
That Great Wall of Bush intended only to cover about 1/3 of the border. They exempted Texas, except for a small section down near Brownsville. Even there, their hearts weren’t in it. Huge gaps in the wall at the Hunt (Oil Billionaire) plantation and at the River Bend Resort and golf course, and probably more.
josef
June 26th, 2012
11:03 am
USinUK
Lazarus plagiarized that from Penina Moise’s 1820 “To Persecuted Foreigners”
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5KgOAAAAIAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA177&dq=penina+moise+to+persecuted+foreigners+text&ots=f6qx-hppQi&sig=beSDpabNxYtU6omG5eGBqfxiO20#v=onepage&q&f=false
HOT AIR
June 26th, 2012
11:03 am
JamVet – So Obama is continuing Bush’s philosophy of ignoring the law? Bush is gone. Obama’s next.
A dad
June 26th, 2012
11:05 am
Let’s get back tot he decisionw ithout any spin. Bottom line, AZ cops can inquire into the status of anyone they arrest. Makes sense as part of a regular background check doesn’t it. Fact that it involves mostly people of hispanic ethnicity, well, as most of the illegal immigrants in AZ are hispanic, oh well. Too bad, too sad. As for the parts which were struck down, requiring anyone to carry “papers” is a bit too reminiscent of tatooing those place i nconcentration camps. I disagree about striking down the no right to work for illegals. By illogical extension (that good old “slippery slope” from law school), if illegals, who ar3e breakig the law, can’t be denied employment ont hat basis, how can a child molester or rapist be denied employment in a day care or school? Both are denied emplyment on the basis of a criminal act, so if that can be a basis for denying emplyment, how can not being here illegally?
USinUK, I take it you’ve never had the opportunity to hear Justice Scalia speak or speak with. You may disagree with his views of the law, but the man’s IQ is definitely way up there.
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
11:06 am
If you advocate (like Obama) the Fed government redistributing “private owned” property (wealth) you are a socialist. Guess you didn’t know it?
They BOTH suck
June 26th, 2012
11:08 am
Oblama
Go look up how Bush and his business partners obtained the land to build the stadium that the Rangers currently play in then come back and tell us all about “socialism”………
Thanks
HOT AIR
June 26th, 2012
11:08 am
Got to go call Orkin ……… fleas are multiplying – birth control for fleas.
JKL2
June 26th, 2012
11:10 am
larry- I mean, does Minnesota have a paper’s please law in regard to Canadians?
Canadian’s have alot of problems with illegal aliens bleeding their country dry. Their problem is with Americans. I’m sure we get some Canadian crossing the border, but they don’t seem to be intent on commiting violent crimes like those to the south. Once that starts to happen, I’m sure we’ll address the problem.
Larry, it’s because of people like you we get grandma’s and little kids searched at airports. We wouldn’t want to hurt the feelings of suspicious characters and have them think they are being singled out…
JamVet
June 26th, 2012
11:13 am
Thanks to neocons, and their adoration for unscrupulous American businessmen who blatantly disregard the law of the land and profit handsomely from using illegals, we are now the “unmelting ‘celebrate diversity and watch out for your own best interest’ pot”
All so JKL2 can watch and laugh as his neighbor’s and family’s incomes are driven down even further…
JKL2
June 26th, 2012
11:16 am
Brosephus- If Congress did what they were supposed to do, then all else should fall into place.
Like control the border? That is their job you know…
I think Congress is so far off the reservation of “what they are supposed to do”, the average congressman couldn’t give you an accurate job description.
JamVet
June 26th, 2012
11:18 am
JamVet – So Obama is continuing Bush’s philosophy of ignoring the law? Bush is gone. Obama’s next.
Hallelujah. The very first crack in your The GOP is Perfect armor!
The difference between you and me is one of intellectual honesty.
You lack it.
I’ve written over and over again how BHO is in many ways just another GWB. I’ve flamed him repeatedly for a wide variety of policy decisions. I have given him a grade as low as a D+. (Now at a C-).
You?
You would no more find ANY fault with George W. Bush than Oblama would. And it would be a cold day in the Christian’s hell when you EVER expounded on any of it.
Why?
You loved him and would vote for him again, if you could…
JKL2
June 26th, 2012
11:18 am
USinUK- considering none of us advocate for the government to take over business/property
Tell that to the automotive/banking/insurance/healthcare agencies…
Brosephus™
June 26th, 2012
11:20 am
Like control the border? That is their job you know…
Nope. That’s not their job. Congress is responsible for legislating the laws in relation to immigration. If you want it to be a criminal offense for people to be here illegally, then Congress has to legislate it as that is not how the law is written at this time. Also, if you want more enforcement along the southern border, then it is the responsibility of Congress to budget and allocate the necessary funding to implement the increased enforcement.
As long as Congress is turning a deaf ear to those two primary immigration functions they control, then nothing else can be done above and beyond what is already being done now. I’ll agree with you that the average congressman couldn’t tell you what they’re supposed to do, and that’s because we’ve let them off the hook for doing what they are supposed to do when they go to DC.
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
11:21 am
TBS – You should know by now that Both “W” and Obama expanded the role of the Fed government through massive spending and socialist programs. I am a fiscal conservative. I believe in reducing the size of the government and it’s run away spending. Bush got public sector money to pay for his stadium. I am opposed to the government getting involved such things and I am opposed to the government bailing out private failed business of any kind. Do you disagree?
Brosephus™
June 26th, 2012
11:21 am
for *not* doing…..
JKL2
June 26th, 2012
11:30 am
jamvet- Thanks to neocons, and their adoration for unscrupulous American businessmen who blatantly disregard the law of the land and profit handsomely from using illegals
Why do you hate illegal aliens and want to deny them their right to work?
It’s a shame only Republican’s are allowed to own businesses. The government should start a program to change that…
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
11:30 am
JV – I have already told you numerous times that I did not vote for “W” and you should know that by now. I have NEVER praised “W”……. show me evidence. I am not a Repub. I am a fiscal conservative. BOTH parties have “evolved” to big government spending programs they can’t pay for. I am opposed to the expansion of spending by the Fed government – whoever is doing it. If you don’t realize that I am not a Repub by now you are in denial. I have never seen any comment from you disagreeing with Obama. Of course, I can’t read every comment ever blogged on here as I still have a real life. “W” is past history……. I prefer to stay in the present and future – which we can still do something about. I see no need to keep bringing up “W”. He’s gone. Just like Obama will soon be gone and I will be talking about the next President.
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
11:33 am
The Repubs are the only ones allowed to own businesses? Maybe you should go back to Sponge Bob where reality doesn’t exist.
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
11:35 am
HOT AIR – Your fleas are still multiplying…… try an independent contractor – Orkin has turned non profit.
JKL2
June 26th, 2012
11:37 am
brosephus- Nope.That’s not their job
So “provide for the common defense” doesn’t include protecting American citizens from being attacked by citizens of another country?
If they haven’t broken a law, why are they called “illegal aliens”?
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
11:39 am
I’m an independent contractor – we eradicate big government fleas – on the left and on the right. Any sign of fleas should be addressed immediately as they multiply rapidly out of control.
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
11:40 am
Got to go spray the “White House” for fleas…….. later.
Joe Hussein Mama
June 26th, 2012
11:44 am
K71 — “We could close our Southern borders in a week. I’m not talking about ICE. I am talking about boots on the ground spread out over our entire Southern border turning Mexicans around and heading them South once again.”
Bulldada.
And, I might add, you’re pretty clearly asking for the expansion of government (e.g. more troops in uniform) to accomplish your objective.
I don’t begrudge you your opinion, but if y’all are going to scream about President Obama wanting to expand government (when he’s actually SHRUNK it), then don’t yammer on about wanting to expand it YOURSELVES.
ICE is nothing but an arm of the Dept of Justice who has sued the very people who are trying to enforce immigration law. Think that ICE will do anything but what Holder and his cronies want them to do? Not on your life.
JKL2
June 26th, 2012
11:44 am
oblama- The Repubs are the only ones allowed to own businesses? Maybe you should go back to Sponge Bob where reality doesn’t exist.
So you agree with jamvet that all conservative businessmen strive to be unscrupulous and purposesly break laws to increase their profitablility? I’d say you’re the one stuck in Bikini Bottom.
Joe Hussein Mama
June 26th, 2012
11:45 am
Apologies; that last graf was from K71 and I didn’t enclose it in quotation marks or reply to it, as I meant to do.
Morgan
June 26th, 2012
11:46 am
Where can I find a truly “independent” contractor to get this pesky big government spending under control? We need an independent contractor………. not a Democrat or a Republican.
JKL2
June 26th, 2012
11:48 am
joe mama- And, I might add, you’re pretty clearly asking for the expansion of government (e.g. more troops in uniform) to accomplish your objective.
No expansion necesary. We have the troops, we would just have to reallocate them along the border. It would be very easy to make it a National Guard function.
Brosephus™
June 26th, 2012
11:50 am
So “provide for the common defense” doesn’t include protecting American citizens from being attacked by citizens of another country?
You’re misunderstanding what I said. The job of Congress is to legislate not enforce. If they are protecting American citizens by legislating, then they are doing their job. It is not their job, however, to physically protect American citizens unless they are also members of the reserves or National Guard.
Joe Hussein Mama
June 26th, 2012
11:51 am
K71 @ 10:10 — “I don’t know”
Well, you’re right about that, at least.
Brosephus™
June 26th, 2012
11:52 am
If they haven’t broken a law, why are they called “illegal aliens”?
Because that’s the popular term for them in the eye of the public. If you read the Immigration and Nationality Act, you will not find the term “illegal alien” anywhere within the law. Immigration officers don’t even refer to them by that name as there are different ways that one can be in this country without authorization.
Morgan
June 26th, 2012
11:53 am
JKL2 – JamVet spends some of his time criticizing me so I don’t think we agree on much. No I don’t agree with Repub business men all being crooks. Where did you get that? There are plenty of crooks on the left. You don’t have to be a Repub or a Dem to be a crook. It was stated by someone on this blog that only Repubs were legally allowed to be business people. I’m not sure if they were stupid or just being silly? Just responding to that bit of ridiculousness. I happen to enjoy Sponge Bob- go to every time Obama comes on T V.
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
11:55 am
JKL2 – My name is Morgan but go by Oblama some times. Especially when I have a comment on Obama and his handlers.
Joe Hussein Mama
June 26th, 2012
11:58 am
C. Sense — “Here’s the problem with liberals….Was Arizona asking to invade Mexico? No. They are tryiing to secure their own state from people who have no legal right to be there.”
Which is not a right or power granted to individual states per the Constitution.
The immigrants may have no legal right to be here, but the State of Arizona didn’t have the legal right to assert some of the authority it tried to assume.
QED.
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
11:58 am
JV – I responded to your criticism of me and your reply is?
Joe Hussein Mama
June 26th, 2012
12:03 pm
JKL — “No expansion necesary. We have the troops, we would just have to reallocate them along the border. It would be very easy to make it a National Guard function.”
I disagree.
Firstly, you’d have to *activate* many units of the Guard for an extended period of time. That’s very costly.
Secondly, most Guard units (hell, most units of the Army and Marine Corps) aren’t trained in law enforcement.
Thirdly, it still won’t work. Sealing the border is NOT the way. Securing the job market, the right to vote and the right to public assistance is they way to go.
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/06/15/obama-offers-temporary-reprieve-to-young-illegal-immigrants/?cp=10#comment-984295
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
12:04 pm
Mama – If someone invades your home and 911 (Fed) doesn’t respond do you wait in the dark to be robbed, beaten or murdered or do you take care of business yourself? When the Fed refuses to defend Arizona – they have no choice but to defend themselves. I am not opposed to legal immigration – just illegal immigration.
Jim163
June 26th, 2012
12:15 pm
“Unauthorized workers trying to support their families, for example, likely pose less danger than alien smugglers or aliens who commit a serious crime,” Kennedy wrote.
And Jay said that Scalia made a political statement. This is the biggest political statement I have seen yet. What does that have to do with the law, Illegal is Illegal.
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
12:18 pm
Mamma – U.S. citizens that are of legal age and are not felons have the right to vote – even if they are insane. Voter I.D. is necessary to avoid fraud. Since dead people vote Dem I understand the opposition to only breathing U.S. citizens having the right to vote. Neither the Dems or the Repubs are going to go after big business that hires illegals……….. money talks and the politicians never turn it down. Both sides are turning a blind eye for CASH.
rastus
June 26th, 2012
12:24 pm
Right to public assistance? Is that in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights? Show me.
Joe Hussein Mama
June 26th, 2012
12:29 pm
Oblama — “Mama – If someone invades your home and 911 (Fed) doesn’t respond do you wait in the dark to be robbed, beaten or murdered or do you take care of business yourself?”
Irrelevant, since the Constitution EXPLICITLY makes immigration a Federal matter. States CANNOT assume that authority for themselves.
“When the Fed refuses to defend Arizona – they have no choice but to defend themselves.”
And that choice is unconstitutional.
“I am not opposed to legal immigration – just illegal immigration.”
I don’t believe you.
“Mamma – U.S. citizens that are of legal age and are not felons have the right to vote – even if they are insane.”
Not necessarily.
“Voter I.D. is necessary to avoid fraud. Since dead people vote Dem I understand the opposition to only breathing U.S. citizens having the right to vote.”
Read this before you even bother to talk to me any more. I’m sick of having to correct you primates on what I think and believe on this topic.
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/06/15/obama-offers-temporary-reprieve-to-young-illegal-immigrants/?cp=10#comment-984295
“Neither the Dems or the Repubs are going to go after big business that hires illegals……….. money talks and the politicians never turn it down. Both sides are turning a blind eye for CASH.”
Agree.
Joe Hussein Mama
June 26th, 2012
12:30 pm
rastus — “Right to public assistance? Is that in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights? Show me.”
Perhaps you weren’t aware of it, but the disbursement of public assistance is a *state* matter, not a Federal one.
Go smarten yourself up. Then you can come back, and maybe I’ll talk to you some more.
Nanny Pelosi
June 26th, 2012
12:42 pm
Sometimes we confuse “rights” with laws. They are not the same thing.
Oblama
June 26th, 2012
12:55 pm
Mama – and it is unconstitutional for The Fed government to not defend our borders. You avoided my question. Would you defend yourself if law enforcement refused to defend you? YES you would and that is exactly the position that the Fed government has put Arizona in. I am for legal immigration – have no reason to be against it. Legal immigration is life blood to this country and always has been. You want me to be some radical right winger but I am not. Just because you don’t agree with me doesn’t make you right Tactics of the left……….. shout down dissenters until they go away. I’m not going.
mister monopoly
June 26th, 2012
12:55 pm
if the rich men cant find them here to pay them 4$ an hour they will pack and follow these illegals to their countries where they will pay them $9 a day cause there is no way they will pay an American 30$ an hour to do jobs that these peoples do and we will pay $25 for a hamburger is that what we want becaue the rich country is the world and their flag is their money how many country you know is succesful without the rich work with the government to create jobs the rich dont care if you born here or not as long as they making money if peoples think they care go and messing around in their jobplace they will slap you with the door
rastus
June 26th, 2012
12:59 pm
Mama – You said “right to public assistance….. explain what you mean by right to public assistance. Public assistance is not a right . but usually is required by law.
jaypat
June 26th, 2012
1:04 pm
Regardless of the politics of the issue…the real, practical effect is to impose another unfunded mandate on those states which have illegal immigrants within their borders.
States are REQUIRED to provide certain services for ALL who are within their borders, such as life-sustaining health care (you can’t let someone die because they can’t pay for the treatment); children must be educated; fire, police and judicial services are required for the additional residents; there is additional demand on water, sewer and electrical services; etc.
So if this is the ruling of the USSC, then the Congress needs to get off its keister and provide all states with the resources to fund these services, based on the population of illegal immigrants within each state. The last estimate of that population in Georgia(from Pew) was 425,000 people. Assuming that it takes about $1,000 per year to provide those services (that’s just a guess), then the State of Georgia should be awarded $425 million to pay for them.
Joe Hussein Mama
June 26th, 2012
1:27 pm
Oblablabla — “Mama – and it is unconstitutional for The Fed government to not defend our borders.”
So you say. Your evidence, please?
“You avoided my question.”
No. Your question is specious, naive and irrelevant.
“Would you defend yourself if law enforcement refused to defend you? YES you would and that is exactly the position that the Fed government has put Arizona in.”
Irrelevant. Arizona, per the Constitution, is explicitly *denied* the authority to do what it did. There are no exceptions for exigent circumstances such as you posit in your question.
“I am for legal immigration – have no reason to be against it.”
Again, I do not believe you.
“Legal immigration is life blood to this country and always has been. You want me to be some radical right winger but I am not.”
And you want me to be some communist left winger, but I’m not. Maybe if you stopped being a Richard and read what I posted for you, we might get along better.
“Just because you don’t agree with me doesn’t make you right”
That’s correct. I’m right regardless of what you say or do.
“Tactics of the left……….. shout down dissenters until they go away.”
That’s a pretty stupid assertion on your part, considering I can’t make you leave. If you don’t like what I have to say, then you certainly don’t have to listen to it.
I’m not going.
Suit yourself.
Joe Hussein Mama
June 26th, 2012
1:32 pm
rastus — “Mama – You said “right to public assistance….. explain what you mean by right to public assistance. Public assistance is not a right . but usually is required by law.”
If you meet certain financial criteria, you have the right to apply for public assistance. If approved, you have to verify your eligibility to RECEIVE it. That includes establishing one’s legal status in the US, and that’s normally demonstrated by means of a social security card. If you can’t produce one, then you can’t receive the assistance, even if you meet the other criteria.
What I was speaking of is the right to receive public assistance by means of proving one’s circumstances (how poor you are) and that you’re legally eligible to receive it (because you’re a citizen). If you read my link from a little while ago, you will see that I propose a national ID card that would be forgery-proof, and could be used as both a voter ID AND as proof of citizenship. Result: no illegals voting in our elections, no illegals getting public assistance that they’re not entitled to. Win-win, right?
Oblama doesn’t know me very well and leaps to a lot of conclusions. If he’d just stop listening to the voices in his head, he and I would get along a lot better.
mister monopoly
June 26th, 2012
1:40 pm
That part of the Arizona law was there as soon as George bush took office in 2001 because a lot illegals been deported already under that law where the person been stopped on a traffic routine they think they will have a ticket and then thats it next thing they know they been on removal they didnt even know that but what people need to know about the law is just because the person is illegal dont mean he or she is deportable it just like i call the police and tell them someone is selling drug in that house they cant just showup right away burst the door and arrest somebody these illegals they use to have a valid driver licence with that they tough everything is ok and thats how they get a get a one way ticket back home
Dave Francis
June 26th, 2012
3:13 pm
THE LAST CHANCE FOR AMERICA.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court released their opinion Yesterday that the federal government has the sole power to enforce the laws against illegal immigration, striking down three key provisions of Arizona’s first-in-the nation crackdown on illegal aliens squatting there and stealing our children’s education, American family health care and a cornucopia of welfare payments and programs. ONLY THE TEA PARTY CAN SAVE US NOW. THE TEA PARTY IS EVERY WALK OF LIFE, EVERY RACE, & EVERY RELIGION THAT HAVE HAD IT WITH THE TWO POLITICAL PARTIES. ID YOU DON’T WANT A SOCIALIST FUTURE, EVERY AMERICAN WHO HAS NEVER VOTED—SHOULD VOTE. NON-CITIZENS WILL VOTE TO SAVE OBAMA.
Frustrated, angry with the Republicans and Democrats, then join the TEA PARTY organization. The growing numbers of millions of Americans are joining this party, spreading its wings away from the Republican enclave. Both political parties are corrupt and all incumbents need to be replaced, which is happening now. We can no longer afford to support the rest of the world, or the 20 million plus illegal aliens living in the United States that has brought their poverty with them. HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE BEING SIPHONED FROM STATES AND THE TAXPAYERS POCKETS.
We must back the Mitt Romney, even though he has his issues but prolong the replacement of every single Democrat, Liberal or Republican that is tearing America apart. IT is the Time of the PEOPLE’S PARTY. It is the time for the TEA PARTY, which is complimented by man/women; African, White, Hispanic, Asian and other racial Americans. The TEA PARTY is a wealth of different religions, faiths, gay and every other walk of life. Remember a large Majority who votes for President Obama for a second term, non citizens or American citizens are the ones who spend their day watching TV, selling drugs, living off the rest of us like parasites. The exception is the sick and true non-functioning human beings, so spend a minute and understand the growing divide in America. If you are frustrated with feeding the rest of the world, unable to get a decent job, the controversial immigration debate that is a theft of your taxes, the rules and regulations forced on Americans that halt large energy companies from extracting oil, natural gas and coal; that we could not only lower the costs of our transport, but sell residual amounts to friendly foreign countries.
By replacing President Obama administration, plus replacing the Republicans and Democrats in the Senate and the Ho House of Representative and seating in ‘THE PEOPLE’S Constitutional TEA PARTY, we can win America back Millions more will be encouraged to come here, bringing their poverty, criminals and children stealing their futures. WE ARE LOSING OUR COUNTRY, OUR LIBERTIES AND OUR U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
In Arizona that was the epicenter of the Illegal Immigration invaders, where the courts have declared that every taxpayer through unfunded mandates must pay for public services for every illegal alien who slips by the border guards. If you are a taxpayer then you should investigate the websites of NumbersUSA, Judicial Watch, Federation of Immigration Reform (FAIR) Center for Immigration studies (CIS), THE DARK SIDE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION (Crimes committed by illegal aliens.
DON’T STICK YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND. JOIN YOUR LOCAL TEA PARTY. FOR AS WE SEE ARIZONA, ALABAMA, GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA OR ANY OTHER STATE BEING HUNTED DOWN, THREATENED AND INTIMIDATED BY A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND MARXISTS, SOCIALISTS IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
Don’t forget that illegal aliens and their legal families want to keep Obama in power, so they can keep collecting taxpayer dollars, the $4.2 billion annually that goes to the children of illegal aliens, not even living in the United States. The $2 Billion dollars a month sucked dry in the Sanctuary city of Los Angeles, going to illegal nationals.
IF YOU HAVE NEVER VOTED BEFORE, REGISTER AND BE READY. REMEMBER, IF YOU THINK ILLEGAL ALIENS OR OTHER NON CITIZENS DO NOT VOTE. THEN THE LAUGH WILL BE ON US ALL, IN NOVEMBER. THE LIBERALS ARE SAYING THE REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO ‘SUPPRESS MINORITY VOTING’ BUT THEY ARE NOT SAYING IS THAT ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE VOTING IN EVERY ELECTION, WITH NO TRUE OFFICIAL RESTRICTIONS.
We need Sheriff Joe Arpio, as a candidate as a TEA PARTY leader as a Senator or House Representative. We need strong, aggressive people in Congress, especially following Constitutional law.
CNN Television and the rest of the Liberal channels always show the huge reinforced fences that run along the most populated areas of the Southern border. In truth the rest of hundreds of miles of the border region is nothing but a few strands of rusty barbed wire, which an elephant could slide through.
OUR COUNTRY IS BEING OVERPOPULATED IN THE NAME OF VOTES AND GREED.
It is of the paramount importance that we must be imposed at once, so no more foreign invaders are encouraged to break the immigration ‘Rule of Law’. ‘THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT’ (E-VERIFY) must be passed and advanced, so illegal aliens can no longer steal jobs from the millions of Americans unemployed. The ‘BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ACT (H.R.140) must be compulsory so babies smuggled into America, so that parents cannot take benefit from welfare, once the child become an immediate citizen. Half a million pregnant women enter the United States looking for handouts annually, for their children. Let your Senator or Congressman/Women know how you will vote, by giving your name to the politician’s aides and that you want them to sponsor E-Verify and the Birthright Citizenship bills. Citizen voters should phone Congress at the central Switchboard at 202-224-3121. FORCE YOUR CONGRESSMAN/WOMAN TO fulfill their obligation to the oath of office and stop pandering to the businesses that use cheap labor. Use the power of your VOTE to demand they sponsor these to policies or we are destined to become like Europe, overwhelmed by the poverty of other countries.
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Joe Hussein Mama
June 26th, 2012
4:34 pm
TL; DR
Pat
June 28th, 2012
1:47 pm
This Court is not “under suspicion” of partisanship. It is a clearly political and partisan court, put into place for that purpose. I prefer Scalia’s honesty to Roberts’ pretense of judicial impartiality – I like my snake-oil salesmen to show me their greasy palms when they go to shake my hand. But I’ll say this for Roberts – his worrying about appearing too obviously bought and paid for probably saved the health care law.