Appeals court stops Ariz. immigration law

The Washington Times ^ | April 11, 2011 | Stephen Dinan

[Scanian]

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Arizona overstepped its bounds with last year’s immigration enforcement law, handing the Obama administration another victory as it tries to squelch states’ efforts on immigration enforcement.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling 2-1, upheld a lower court’s decision that Congress doesn’t want states meddling in immigration. The appeals court said that nullifies Arizona’s attempt to empower local police to detain and question those they suspect are in the country illegally.

“Foreign policy is not and cannot be determined by the several states,” Judge John T. Noonan Jr. wrote in his concurring opinion. “Foreign policy is determined by the nation as the nation interacts with other nations. Whatever in any substantial degree attempts to express a policy by a single state or by several states toward other nations enters an exclusively federal field.”

Arizona’s attempt last year to step up local enforcement of immigration laws sparked a national debate about immigration, and drew praise and condemnation upon the state.

National immigrant rights groups called for boycotts of the state, but legislators elsewhere tried to copy the law.

Fearing the efforts would spread to other states, the Obama administration sued, saying the national government alone has the power to decide how immigration laws are enforced.

Monday’s ruling is a clear-cut victory for the federal government in that respect.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the legislation and became its national champion, said the decision “does harm to the safety and well-being of Arizonans who suffer the negative effects of illegal immigration.”

She and state Attorney General Tom Horne said they will pursue an appeal, either to the full 9th Circuit or to the Supreme Court.

For a decade, Arizona has been ground zero for illegal immigration.

[DB]

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a joke.

They get reversed more than any court in the land.

[DeaconRed]

We don’t need State Legislatures, just let Federal Judges write the laws.

[NTHockey]

NULLIFICATION! ARREST GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WHO TRY TO STOP ENFORCEMENT!

[Quiller]

"Foreign policy is not and cannot be determined by the several states . . . "

YGTBSM!

Enforcing the law has become "foreign policy"?

A state asking people within the state to present documents which they are required to have by federal law is "foreign policy"?

The next logical step for this mentality is for some Muslims to stone a woman to death, and LEOs to be sued if they interfere, because they have no business in (yep, you guessed it), "foreign policy".

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[Scanian]

Remember, that was the NINTH CIRCUIT.

The most reversed court in the country.

[Defend Liberty]

The judicial branch is now the legislative branch.

[McGavin999]

The courts are going to keep this up until people start shooting them as they come across the border. It is suicide to attempt to keep the American people from protecting themselves.

Oh yeah, and this has NOTHING to do with foreign policy and EVERYTHING to do with domestic policy. Morons!

[Jack Hammer]

This would be a bad joke if it hadn’t actually happened.

[Condor51]

Hmmm? .... did the 9th Circus say something? I thought I heard a noise but I can't be sure.

Oh well, it's gone now.
Guess it was my imagination.

(In English: Yo, 9th Circus ... ESAD!)

[Vision]

Perverse judges say states can’t protect themselves. If the Feds want to encourage lawlessness, the radicals in black robes say states must be the victims. Of course the judges don’t live near the border.

[LibLieSlayer]

9th circuit is just a stop on its way to the SCOTUS. The most overturned marxist court in the US.

LLS

[Labyrinthos]

They get reversed more than any court in the land.

The only people more wrong more often than the judges on the 9th Circuit are weather forecasters and meteorologists and my ex-wife.

[Molon Labbie]

People will remember this when you need a passport to see the Grand Canyon, the Alamo, or the Golden Gate Bridge.

What no foreign nation could take by force of arms, was given away by those who viewed national sovereignty as a quaint notion.

[SECURE AMERICA]

It is not foriegn policy you idiots, it is State policy to control the borders of the State. They did not say that you could not get cheap day laborers in Virginia and Maryland and elsewhere.....

[Soothesayer]

Arizona needs to ignore this corrupt and useless Democrat-owned “court”. If the rats press too hard then they need to secede from the union.

If they chicken out on this one then they deserved to be destroyed by illegals.

[Vision Thing]

If the Feds want to encourage lawlessness...

If so, then they are truly dumbsh|t goobermint employees, because this would remove any protection they have against us when we choose to take up arms against them.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The clowns at the 9th Circus! LOL! This isn’t news.

[muawiyah]

You raise a good point ~ stoning!

When the federal government refuses to use modern methods for handling "illegals" then why should private individuals be bothered with them.

A few "stonings" would probably encourage the federal courts to figure this out ~