The next big turning point will come when and if the economy cycles into a bad recession.
That's when the frijoles will hit the fan.
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Posted on 08/06/2007 6:45:33 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
States Pick Up Where Congress Left Off of Immigration Law
Monday , August 06, 2007
AP
BOSTON — State lawmakers are increasingly stepping into the void created by the failure of Congress to approve sweeping changes to immigration policy, a new report finds.
Legislatures have passed bills dealing with a range of immigration issues, from employment and health care to driver's licenses and human trafficking — creating a sometimes uneven patchwork quilt of immigration law across the country.
Arkansas approved a law barring state agencies from contracting with businesses that hire illegal immigrants. Louisiana has a new law barring the state from issuing driver's licenses to foreigners until their criminal background has been checked. Oregon made it illegal for anyone other than lawyers to perform immigration consultation work.
In the first six months of the year, 171 immigration bills became law in 41 states. That's more than double the 84 laws approved in all of 2006, according to the report by the National Conference of State Legislatures, being released Monday at the group's annual meeting in Boston.
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“I wish someone, ANYONE, would tell the Feds to go to hell. That’s the only way things will change.”
Can U.S. citizens sue (i.e., class action) the Federal Government for failure to effectively control the borders and for failure to enforce our current immigration laws?
While I support the individual states in their efforts to pick up where the Federal government has dropped the ball, I have to agree with some of what this author has stated. We will become a nation that pits state against state, sanctuary cities against ‘hazelton’ cities, neighbor against neighbor.
One begins to wonder if that is not exactly what ‘they’ intended. After the unprecidented incident on the house floor last week, even our legislators are at the breaking point.
Something’s got to give.
Regarding border security, the feds are a lot like Carrie Nation: she didn’t drink and didn’t want you drinking either.
They don’t enforce federal immigration law and they don’t want the states enforcing it either.
In sum, before the federal government were the states. Something’s got to give.
The next big turning point will come when and if the economy cycles into a bad recession.
That's when the frijoles will hit the fan.
U.S. Constitution, Article 4 Section 4:
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
And well they should: The Texas Constitution Article 1 - BILL OF RIGHTS That the general, great and essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and established, we declare: Section 1 - FREEDOM AND SOVEREIGNTY OF STATE Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.
You can sue the USGOV, but you must first obtain its permission. Perhaps a sensible Federal judge will help someone to grease the wheels....
” . . . the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.”
My point exactly. See Town of Hazelwood, PA.
The states can act in an area where they have not been preempted by federal law. Pertinent federal law is USC Title 8 which proscribes illegal “immigration”.
Localities acting in consonance with federal (feral) law attempt to regulate illegal aliens within their jurisdiction.
The feds do very little, other than token raids: in fact, they employ illegal aliens, so how can we expect them to uphold the law when they cannot seem to comply with it themselves?
So Tex, try doing what Hazelwood, PA did in Texas—regulate illegal aliens—and some blow-hard feral judge will slap you down, just as in PA.
They don’t enforce their own law and don’t want you enforcing it.
From what I understand you can sue the Fed. Gov. if the person that is suing can prove that the Fed. Gov. has been negligent and that some harm has come to them from an inaction by the Fed. Gov.
That’s hard to do considering the token enforcement the Fed. Gov. does on illegal immigration.
What really needs to be done is to change the law to make it a federal felony for anyone to come into the U.S. illegally, over stay their visa, lie about their situation in such a way as to get asylum in the U.S.
As it stands now it is only a misdemeanor and the way our federal prosecutors look at it is that a misdemeanor is not worth pursuing in time, effort or in the courts of law.
In addition to allowing the federal government to regularly and habitually violate the U. S. Constitution, we seem to have forgotten that the federal government is (was) created by the several sovereign states to serve certain limited purposes. The limited functions delegated to the federal government did not include our feeding, medicating, or in any other way meddling in the details of our personal lives, including the education of our children.
A government that will not secure the borders of our nation, and strictly control access to our territories, has abrogated its reason to exist.
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Those pics are proof that something has to be done.
President Andrew Jackson is supposed to have said of a Supreme Court ruling he opposed: “Well, John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.” The court’s ruling was ignored. And yet, somehow, the republic survived.
Now you sound like Ron Paul. Maybe the guy has something to say after all.
I post them because they bring the reality of the invasion home in a way demographic statistics don’t.
Neither party has the guts to enforce the law or take the chance that they will lose even one hispanic vote,but at the same time they don't have the guts to roll over too many local govts. either.
They might go after one or two if big name hispanic groups yell loud enough but by in large if we have any immigration law enforced at all it will be done locally.
I have contended this for almost a year now.
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