Posted on 10/07/2011 7:28:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama’s administration filed a motion Friday asking a federal appellate court to block implementation of Alabama’s tough new immigration law, citing a risk the measure will lead to discrimination.
Justice Department attorneys want the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta to impose an injunction against enforcement of H.B. 56 pending a final ruling on the multiple suits challenging its constitutionality.
Critics call the Alabama measure the most extreme of the five state laws that have been adopted recently to combat illegal immigration.
The Justice Department said Tuesday that for the federal government the priority in applying immigration laws is the detention of foreigners who represent a threat to national security or who have committed crimes.
“States do not have the authority to disregard these priorities and create a patchwork of independent immigration policies. Similarly, neither the Constitution nor the federal immigration laws permit a state scheme avowedly designed to drive aliens out of the State – a program of de facto removal,” the federal brief says.
H.B. 56 requires state and local police to ask people they suspect of being undocumented for proof of legal residence, and forces public schools to verify the immigration status of new students.
Late last month, U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn barred the state government from enforcing four of the clauses contained in the law, but allowed other elements of the legislation to stand.
The Justice Department and other plaintiffs asked Lovelace meanwhile to withhold the application of the law until a ruling is handed down on the multiple suits challenging its constitutionality.
On Wednesday Lovelace dismissed that request and said the government had not shown that the application of the law would cause significant harm to the public interest.
“Although it is too soon to determine with precision the effects of H.B. 56, news accounts confirm that the law is having its intended but impermissible consequences of driving aliens from the State,” the Justice Department said Friday.
H.B. 56 likewise appears to be “inducing many parents to keep their children home from school due to fear about the State’s immigration policy,” the federal filing said.
The Federal government is the enemy.
Screw them.
The Law in Alabama was approved by the people of Alabama.
Obama...shut the hell up.
Obamacare seems harsh to me so I’ll opt out - k thx.
We are in the weirdest of times where up is down and down is up.
I’d have not guessed it would come this soon, this fast in my America.
The power of satan is growing- believers must call it out card by card. Retreat is not an option.
Death or imprisonment, as undesireable as it may be is where we are headed if we do nothing! Better to die for the Truth than to aquiesce...
We are in the weirdest of times where up is down and down is up.
I’d have not guessed it would come this soon, this fast in my America.
The power of satan is growing- believers must call it out card by card. Retreat is not an option.
Death or imprisonment, as undesireable as it may be is where we are headed if we do nothing! Better to die for the Truth than to aquiesce...
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
I’m sure a Constitutional scholar could easily clarify this, but how does “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization” give the feds the power to block any state’s right to protect itself against invasion?
I’m undoubtedly missing something important here, but I fail to see where the rules of naturalization extend in any way to people sneaking across the border. LEGAL aliens are not the same as ILLEGAL aliens.
It’s not going to easy to fire Obama
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks, who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent. Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 5:20-24
With you, man. Seen them old guys at gunshows reworking 45 ACP’s like they could do it in their sleep.
Lord willing we can forstall the attack. Man the bastions!
You’ve quoted one of my favorites, from KJV (The Authorized Version), no less!
Most popular book on the planet, as I recall. No one will have an excuse come Judgement.
They just caught a child sex offender for sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12. Thanks to the new law he cannot make bail and skip town. Is this an example of who Obama is protecting ?http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20111006/NEWS/111009836/1084/NEWS?Title=Alleged-illegal-immigrant-arrested-held-in-Marshall-County
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