Posted on 12/28/2012 3:58:44 PM PST by AuntB
Jacques Belleaud at MyFoxDC reports:
The Mexican government has urged a U.S. court to stop Arizona from enforcing a minor section of the states 2010 immigration law that prohibits the harboring of illegal immigrants.
Lawyers representing Mexico asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing Wednesday to uphold a lower-court ruling that blocked police from enforcing the ban. Mexico argued the ban harms diplomatic relations between the United States, undermines the U.S.s ability to speak to a foreign country with one voice and encourages the marginalization of Mexicans and people who appear to be from Latin America.
Mexico cannot conduct effective negotiations with the United States when the foreign policy decisions of the federal governments are undermined by the individual policies of individual states, lawyers for the Mexican government said in a friend-of-the-court brief.
The harboring ban was in effect from late July 2010 until U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton blocked its enforcement on Sept. 5. Two weeks before Bolton shelved the ban, she said during a hearing that she knew of no arrests that were made under the provision.
The prohibition has been overshadowed by other parts of the law, including a requirement that went into effect on Sept. 18 that officers, while enforcing other laws, question the immigration status of those suspected of being in the country illegally.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the questioning requirement earlier this year, but also struck down other sections of the law, such as a requirement that immigrants obtain or carry immigration registration papers. The nations highest court didnt consider the harboring ban.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the measure known as SB1070 into law and serves as the statutes chief defender, has asked the appeals court to reverse Boltons ruling on the harboring ban.
Brewer spokesman Matt Benson said Arizonas harboring ban mirrored federal law and that Mexico was interfering with a matter in U.S. courts.
Mexicos own immigration laws are significantly more heavy-handed than anything imposed as a result of SB1070. Does the Mexican government believe the nearly identical U.S. federal law harms diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Mexico? he said.
This wasnt the first time a foreign government has chimed in during disputes over the immigration law.
In 2010, Mexico urged the courts to declare the law unconstitutional, and 10 other Latin American countries had joined in expressing their opposition to the law.
Brewer had said the foreign governments were meddling in an internal legal dispute between the United States and one of its states.
No other countries have joined in Mexicos latest friend-of-court brief.
“Mexicos own immigration laws are significantly more heavy-handed than anything imposed as a result of SB1070. Does the Mexican government believe the nearly identical U.S. federal law harms diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Mexico? he said. “
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That says it all for me.
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The Constitution is like paper money. It becomes meaningless when the masses don’t agree that it is valuable.
Mexicans should be worrying about Mexico and not the United States. Let them fix what is wrong down there and they would not have to worry about what is going on up here.
Mexicans should be worrying about Mexico and not the United States. Let them fix what is wrong down there and they would not have to worry about what is going on up here.
I guess the rock hit the dog.
If the Mexicans illegally incarcerating a former Marine on bogus charges didn’t “harm diplomatic relations”, I sure as hell don’t think SB1070 will.
Used to be, back in the good old days, foreign intervention of this sort was considered an act of war- the kind that led to the treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo that forced Zmexico to cede its claimed territory in North America.
I truly despise iPad autocorrect.
and this doesn’t get thrown out on 11th amendment grounds, why?
The Mexican Lobby For Human Trafficking objects to this interference with their business model.
“The Mexican Lobby For Human Trafficking objects to this interference with their business model.”
Too true!
Heh. Don’t make them too mad or they will shoot you with a gun the ATF supplied them. ;^)
Living in Mexico
http://yucalandia.com/living-in-yucatan-mexico/new-immigration-law-published-for-mexico-the-article/
Majority of Americans urge Mexico to STFU!!!!
FIRE, er, Film at eleven.
How in the world could any court consider Mexico to have standing, crawling, creeping or slithering in a US court? They should have had the US Marshalls thrown them out as soon as they opened their mouths.
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