I was just watching the FOX Chris Wallace Sunday morning show. They covered the new Arizona law and blabbed about it being “unconstitutional” and how the Republicans were going to lose the Hispanic voters that never vote for Republicans anyway. Doo Dah, Doo Dah. The next topic was the economy and how we were going to have to cut benefits and raise taxes in order to save the world. I wonder if they know how moronic they looked by not combining the two topics. We’re going to give citizenship to 30 million foreign nationals while trying to cut freebies and “entitlements”? Don’t they know it’s “unconstitutional” and “racist” to cut off government freebies and handouts to “newly minted U.S. citizens”?
Our elite is totally out of touch with reality, and FOX is supposed to represent the “conservative” side of the debate which appears to be minor quibbling with the NYT’s editorial board.
It was all about political implications of the law and not about citizens live or border security and the impact this has on our country.
“I was just watching the FOX Chris Wallace Sunday morning show. They covered the new Arizona law and blabbed about it being “unconstitutional”
WRONG, as usual.
Federal Immigration and Nationality Act Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii) State and local law enforcement officials have the general power to investigate and arrest violators of federal immigration statutes without prior INS knowledge or approval, as long as they are authorized to do so by state law. There is no extant federal limitation on this authority.
The 1996 immigration control legislation passed by Congress was intended to encourage states and local agencies to participate in the process of enforcing federal immigration laws. Immigration officers and local law enforcement officers may detain an individual for a brief warrantless interrogation where circumstances create a reasonable suspicion that the individual is illegally present in the U.S. Specific facts constituting a reasonable suspicion include evasive, nervous, or erratic behavior; dress or speech indicating foreign citizenship; and presence in an area known to contain a concentration of illegal aliens.