ACLU cautions city not to revive illegal-immigrant rental law (Escondido warned it would be costly)

San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 12/19/06 | J. Harry Jones

[NormsRevenge]

fyi

[Volunteer]

ACLU = satan's little helper

[longtermmemmory]

This is why the ACLU should not be able to obtain attorney fees.

The ACLU should be required to pay its own attorney fees AND they should be prohibited from using law students as interns for law school credits.

[wastedyears]

I fail to see where illegal aliens have rights under our Constitution.

Pretty soon, they're going to tell the country to call them the 'underpriviledged', because being 'illegal' is too painful.

[SpaceBar]

How the ACLU continues to exist without being classified and targeted for prosecution as a criminal legal racketeering group defies all reasoning.

[Fierce Allegiance]

The ACLU should not get money from the government (meaning us taxpayers!).

[WatchingInAmazement]

“If they even get close to this topic again, we will look at it with a microscope,” Blair-Loy said yesterday in response to the comments. “If we do have to sue them, it will be a lot more painful experience than it was the first time . . . they may not have such a quick, easy, painless exit from the case.”

Blackmail, nothing but!

[Youngman442002]

to me that sounds like a threat from the mob....will we succumb....or fight

[x1stcav]

The City of Escondido should aet up a legal defense fund. I'd contribute.

[Charles Martel]

David Blair-Loy, legal director of the Aztlan Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties, said fundamental problems will exist with any ordinance designed to banish illegal immigrants.

There, that seems more accurate.

[x1stcav]

David Blair-Loy, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties

This b*st*rd should be ridden out of town on a rail. He probably lives in some gated community with all of the other over-paid law pukes and doesn't know what real people, like those living in Escondido, are putting up with.

Isn't there some way to make these ACLU types pariahs?

[Hacksaw]

You can attempt to tell us how the ACLU is protecting the bill of rights here.

[gubamyster]

ping

[Regulator]

the council agreed to pay the ACLU and the various law firms who had filed the suit $90,000 to cover their legal fees and to block enforcement of the ordinance

This is because of a federal law which allows plaintiffs in "civil rights" actions to recover attorney's fees.

All you have to do is get a judge to say it's a civil rights action, and presto: you get paid. And the vote of the people or their representatives goes down the toilet. The plaintiffs against 187 got millions. Which they are still spending to jackhammer the American border apart, one effect of which can still be seen in New York city where there used to be a couple of buildings.

But of course, the ACLU would argue that the victims of American Imperialism had a civil right to do that.

While it may have sounded noble at the time, the notion of allowing a well funded political group like the ACLU to use the courts to compel their own funding and make threats against anyone who dares disagree with them shows that the law is a joke and is being abused.

And so it should be repealed, or vastly constricted, with a very narrow interpretation and more review than a single judge. In other words, set the bar much higher. Or just build a wall and be done with it.

[ArmstedFragg]

Funny thing about it is, if you read the initial court decision, it doesn't agree with Blair-Loy's contention that Federal law pre-empts the field. And, in fact, a decision to issue a temporary restraining order has no precedential value whatsoever. The ACLU's just blowing smoke, and auto-back-patting again.

It's an exercise in contrasts to read what the actual court documents (available at escondido.org) say and compare it with Blair-Loy's 'creative' version of the facts.

The City Council of Escondido's not going to let city policy be determined by the threats of a bunch of slick-suited legal extortionists, and I say 'more power to them'.

[diverteach]

Hey!........ACLU.....you frickin' moron's! Remember the "A" in ACLU, it stands for AMERICAN and illegal aliens are not Americans, you bass ackwards bastards.

[mtbopfuyn]

Remind me again which, the U S Constitution or the Mexican Constitution, they're supposed to be defending.

[sticker]

Neither, the ussr's

[mugs99]

You can attempt to tell us how the ACLU is protecting the bill of rights here.

Due process...The ordinance is badly written and clearly a slippery slope.
"the Constitution guarantees people – landlords and tenants in this case – the right to contest allegations and to confront their accuser."
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