Posted on 05/29/2011 1:12:32 PM PDT by Starman417
The Supreme Court on Thursday, may have just written the epitaph for the Illegal Alien in the United States. Not so surprisingly, the justices voted straight down party lines for a 5 - 3 decision; with Justice Kagan recusing herself, because of her prior role as a solicitor general for the Obama Administration.
In effect, the Supreme Court ruled, Arizona is within its rights to require employers to check the citizenship status of workers through a government data base. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued Arizona over the law, maintaining that immigration enforcement is a purview of the federal government.
In 1986, a sweeping immigration law reform, removed the rights of states to enforce immigration law; except for one clause, that allows states to enforce immigration law in accordance with: “all licenses necessary to operate the business.”
Chief Justice Roberts wrote the main opinion for the court, which will leave the door open for states to end the illegal alien invasion:
“We hold that Arizona’s licensing law falls well within the confines of the authority Congress chose to leave to the states and therefore is not expressly preempted.” “no basis in law, fact, or logic” for the argument that Arizona should be stopped from doing so in the name of federal “preemption” of state activity.
Other states are following Arizona's example and considering requiring all employers to enroll in the Homeland Security Department's voluntary E-Verify program, which compares employees' names and Social Security numbers with government data bases. Georgia has just recently enacted this type of law.
A federal version of E-Verify will soon be introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-TX. Congressman Smith weighed in on E-Verify:
“I am pleased the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Arizona E-Verify law and their right to revoke business licenses for employers that knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Not only is this law constitutional, it is commonsense.”
The fascinating prospect of this law is that states that don't have E-Verify will soon have their Socialist Dystopias over run by the Illegal Alien hordes. An important win for efforts to stop the illegal alien invasion, because E-Verify actually works: the illegal alien population fell by seven percent from 2008 to 2009, according to Homeland Security, but in Arizona, the number of Illegal Aliens fell by eighteen percent.
The court's decision was a major loss for the Chamber of Commerce and the Obama Administration, they hoped to prevent states from being able to enforce immigration law; although, the decision doesn't necessarily mean that the court will uphold SB1070, Arizona's law that makes it a state crime to be an illegal immigrant within the state. We realize it is a "Catch 22" type of situation, but E-Verify may be enough to start the repatriation of all the illegals. A dozen states have already enacted E-Verify type legislation of varying degrees, but they now have a broader width to set up enforcement. The Court's ruling has set up the guide lines and states will no longer be timid to enact legislation with the fear of Holder Injustice Department taing them to court.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Lamar Smith (R., Texas) is introducing an E-Veify Bill in the near future; hopefully, Boehner will find hid huevos and put it on fast track. The Camber of Congress/Obama partnership was probably planning on offering E-Verify as a barging chip for type of amnesty, but now the bargaining chip is lost to the unions, Obama, and the Chamber of Congress with their comprehensive reform and amnesty plans.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
The Chamber of Commerce is not our friend. Crony capitalism and use of illegal aliens is not something any true conservative should support. When they do accidentally get things right based on their narrow and greedy self interest, we should support them, but that doesn’t mean we have to like them.
Why?
In 1996, Congress expanded the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to include violations of federal immigration law.
1 While this expansion may not have received much publicity, it could potentially change the face of U.S. immigration law enforcement. Under the new RICO provisions, a violation of certain provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) meets the definition of racketeering activity, also known as a "predicate offense,"
2 and an entity that engages in a pattern of racketeering activity for financial gain can be held both criminally and civilly liable.
3 Among other things, the INA makes it unlawful to encourage illegal immigration or employ illegal aliens,
4 which violations were included as predicate offenses under RICO.
The 1996 law changes in the INA made hiring illegal aliens a predicate act of racketeering activity under RICO, but illegal hiring wasn’t the only violation of the INA made a predicate act. Other INA prohibitions made RICO predicate acts were encouraging or inducing illegal immigration, smuggling, and harboring illegal aliens.10 Together, these additions make the RICO Act potentially a very strong new tool in the hands of private parties against persons and companies that profit by violating U.S. immigration law.
Additionally, the RICO provision regarding the unlawful encouragement of illegal immigration could justify a suit against a private entity, such as a bank, that accepts foreign-issued identification cards that are only needed by illegal aliens. One example of this, of course, is the matricula consular issued by the Mexican consulates in the United States. Since both the supporters of the matricula and those who oppose its acceptance agree that only illegal aliens have need to rely on the card, acceptance of the card knowingly encourages illegal immigration. Part of the legislative intent of the RICO laws in general was to afford private citizens a remedy for lawbreaking when authorities normally charged with such enforcement became derelict in their duties.
For example, in a town in which political corruption and racketeering activity have combined to the detriment of law-abiding citizens and the rule of law, the RICO Act was intended to provide private citizens the ability to initiate court action to compel enforcement and respect for the law.
I didn’t know the Chamber of Commerce was tied to Obama.
Sure would be nice if we could get e-voteverify. No official ID, no vote. Nothing’d kill amnesty faster.
To say that e-Verify is responsible for ending illegal immigration is incorrect. This is not to say that it is unimportant, but we should be clear on what it does, and what it does not do.
It does, essentially, criminalize those businesses that preferred to hire illegal aliens. This group did much to thwart border controls for many years, and the only way to get them to stop was by threatening to pull their business licenses.
But does this stop illegal entry in the first place? Only when compared to the other things that are limiting illegal entry:
1) Fewer job opportunities in the US.
2) The border fence which increases degree of difficulty.
3) The news and rumor south of the border.
4) Declining birthrates in Mexico.
5) The northern Mexico drug war.
Also, one of the big things pushing Mexicans north, especially southern Mexicans, was the Plan Puebla Panama, an effort to turn southern Mexico into a transport hub. In support of this, vast numbers of southern Mexican Indians were displaced and told to go north.
But most of the dislocation of the PPP is over.
We just passed our own tough immigration law here in GA last month. The Chamber of Commerce and Big Agra tried to stop it but we got it passed phasing E-Verify in over a several year period. Hopefully we will get rid of this plague of locusts.
There is not one single positive thing about illegal aliens. All that is coming are the dregs of Mexican society. They bring, drugs, crime and a voracious appetite for our health and welfare services.
“Also, one of the big things pushing Mexicans north, especially southern Mexicans, was the Plan Puebla Panama, an effort to turn southern Mexico into a transport hub. In support of this, vast numbers of southern Mexican Indians were displaced and told to go north.”
Thanks for that info, I didn’t know this.
“hopefully, Boehner will find hid huevos and put it on fast track.”
Dream on.
1)Mexico has prodigious natural resources, two coasts, harbors, arable land, fresh water, mineral wealth; the heinous Mexican elite who act to push their national burdens on to America is despicable and hostile.
2)Mexico gave NO tangible support, troops or money, to the United States in its response to 9/11. Vincente Fox refused to help. Calderon later spouted his whine before the US Congress of the Democratic Party.
3)For those who question the fact be assured there is a powerful DC cabal, which does include certain lobbying big businesses (e.g. Chamber of Commerce) dominating the United States taxpayer. (Incidentally there are businesses that want the US government take control of individual healthcare).
4)The current chaos of the European Union is explicit confirmation of the absurdity of "open borders" world government, when in fact the commitment and responsibilities of a well behaved national citizenship is the natural organizing process for native prosperity.
5)The Council on Foreign Relations and its Harvard buddies are the most arrogant and analytically deficient pseudo-intellects on the civilized planet.
6)If a human individual comes through the front door, understands the commitments, and subsequently practices accordingly, then he is welcome.
7)Human material prosperity is a matter of individual conscience, while all attempts at authoritarian manipulation is simply the sinister selfishness of Ego-Scum.
Johnny Suntrade
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