Arizona to Deny Drivers Licenses to All Illegal Aliens Granted 'Deferred Deportation' by Obama

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is under fire from pro-illegal alien "rights" groups like the ACLU and La Raza for refusing drivers licenses to illegal alien "youth" granted virtual amnesty under Barack Obama's DACA program. They have sued repeatedly to try and stop her.

After Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by executive order last year, Gov. Brewer called it "deferred amnesty" and mandated that no one covered by it would receive a driver's license.

Brewer’s lawyers argued that Obama’s policy isn’t federal law and the state has the authority to distinguish between illegals with work permits who are on the path toward permanent residency and those benefiting from Obama’s policy. The state’s lawyers argued Arizona isn’t violating its own policy by refusing to grant licenses to the immigrants in the program, because the youths haven’t been granted legal protections by Congress.

A Federal judge in May refused to halt the Arizona Governor's policy. The plaintiffs have of course appealed.

Beware!

Patriots who have never heard about the Constitution's division of federal and state powers may find it difficult to assimilate the following explation as to why Obama's DACA program is likely unconstitutional.

Noting that the federal government has only those powers which the states have delegated to it expressly in the Constitution, the key question concerning the validity of any federal law, federal immigration laws in this case, is whether or not the states have ever delegated to the federal governent the specific power to legislatively address a given issue.

And PC interpretations of the Constitution to address immigration issues aside, not only is the fact that the word "immigration" does not appear in the Constitution a major clue that the feds have no constitutional authority to regulate immigration, but please note the following. Thomas Jefferson had clarified, in terms of the 10th Amendment nonetheless, that the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration.

"4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people," the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the -- day of July, 1798, intituled "An Act concerning aliens," which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force (emphasis added)." --Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.

But also consider that the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate driving privileges. So corrupt federal lawmakers are doubly constitutionally wrong on this issue by trying to keep themselves in power, imo, by bartering political support from illegal immigrants by giving them driving privileges.

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