Posted on 04/21/2012 6:25:40 PM PDT by Steelfish
Showdown On Arizona Immigration Law Goes To Supreme Court The case has major implications for the presidential campaign and other states where similar crackdowns on illegal immigrants are being challenged.
By David G. Savage April 21, 2012, WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court and the Obama administration are set for another politically charged clash Wednesday as the justices take up Arizona's tough crackdown on illegal immigrants.
It will be a rematch of the attorneys who argued the healthcare case a month ago, and another chapter in the partisan philosophical struggle over states' rights and the role of the federal government.
And once again, President Obama's lawyers are likely to face skeptical questions from the high court. Last year, the court's five more-conservative justices rebuffed the administration and upheld an earlier Arizona immigration law that targeted employers who hired illegal workers.
To prevail this year, the administration must convince at least one of the five to switch sides and rule that the state is going too far and interfering with the federal government's control over immigration policy.
The election-year legal battle goes to the heart of the dispute between Republicans and Democrats over what to do about the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.
Arizona and five other Republican-led states seek a stepped-up effort to arrest and deport illegal immigrants. They say the federal system is broken and fault Obama for what they consider a "relaxed" enforcement policy.
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It really pisses me off that Arizona has to do the job the U.S. Government refuses to do although we pay them with our tax dollars to do that job.
Where’s the %%#@!!XZX^^^@@ Fence!?
Well, there's a plus.
Again with the "11 million" crap-ola.
They were saying that same drivel when we did the original Minuteman Project in 2005.
I wish there was some way to find the first use of the "11 million" number just so it could be held up for the ridicule it deserves. The real number is probably around 30 million.
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Yeah really. Hopefully they'll f*** this up too.
Boner and McCornhole, a one party system of two Socialist parties. FU GOP-e
The same place that all lying Republican campaign promises are.
They’ve been spouting that 11 million ILLEGALS crap for almost 10 years now.
It has to be at least 30 million by now. In 10 more years they will have spawned another 30 million.
Makes you wonder how they can count all them illegals seeing as how they’re ‘’hiding in the shadows’’.
So, when do we get around to allowing each state, or county, or voting juristiction to determine whether the documentation of the federal candidates meet the requirements of the Constitution to allow them on the local ballot??
Never?? Yeah, that’s what I thought you said!
I remember the Latino community 1st being solicited on radio in 2000, and it was in full-swing in 2004.
Somewhere between those two we hit 10% of the national population.
I remember the Latino community 1st being solicited on radio in 2000, and it was in full-swing in 2004.
Somewhere between those two we hit 10% of the national population.
The Constitution wasn’t written to disenfrachise American citizens. It was written to EMPOWER them.
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