18 Southern and Western Congressmen sign court brief defending Arizona immigration law

Arizona Rural Times ^ | 7/17/10 | staff

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jul 16 - 18 Members of Congress have signed an amicus brief opposing a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to block enforcement of Arizona’s new immigration law.

The brief, written by the Washington Legal Foundation, urges the U.S. District Court for Arizona to reject an effort by the ACLU to prevent the implementation of SB 1070, the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act. The Arizona Legislature passed SB 1070 in April. The bill gives local law enforcement the ability to question suspected illegal immigrants. It also requires immigrants to carry registration documents, which is already mandated by federal law.

The ACLU lawsuit, filed in May, challenges the constitutionality of the Arizona immigration law.

“For far too long, the federal government has neglected its duty to secure our borders and enforce its own immigration laws. Illegal immigration, violence, and drug activity along the border are not recent developments. Arizona has taken matters into its own hands to protect its citizens and communities and has every right to do so,” U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) said on Friday.

The brief states that SB 1070 is not pre-empting existing federal law, which already provides for state and federal cooperation in immigration enforcement. It argues that the ACLU lawsuit is based on speculation and cites no actual instances in which the state law conflicts with federal immigration laws already on the books.

U.S. Representatives who signed the amicus brief:

U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), U.S. Representative Dan Burton (IN), U.S. Representative Trent Franks (AZ), U.S. Representative Sam Graves (MO), U.S. Representative Wally Herger (CA), U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter (CA), U.S. Representative Steve King (IA), U.S. Representative Doug Lamborn (CO), U.S. Representative Tom McClintock (CA), U.S. Representative Gary Miller (CA),

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Hunter, King, Burton, McClintock, Poe, etc. IOTW, the conservatives.

[NoLibZone]

Of the 18, how many were Dhiminicarts.

Maybe, just maybe the GOPers have figured out that if illegals stay then the GOP dies forever.

Catholics and Jews will never vote Republican.

Both share Marxist based philosophies .

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Bush and Reagan both won the Catholic vote.

[Regulator]

When the families of the judges have to hide in gated "communities" to escape the violence of the world they mandated, when the rulings they make simply cease to have any meaning because no one complies and no one cares in a Mexicanized Southwest, corrupt to the core, and when their own jobs go unpaid and irrelevant because the people they sided with simply pocket the taxes and the bribes, then perhaps they will feel the terror at what they have done.

But it will be too late, of course.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

White Catholics voted for McCain by a large margin.

[Bhoy]

It has already been established that cities can vote which Federal Rules will be enforced. The Fed has not filed lawsuits against sanctuary cities nor cities declining to enforce pot laws.