Posted on 07/31/2007 7:30:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A telling irony shines through last week's ruling by a federal judge that found only Congress can set immigration law. The judge knew full well that half the plaintiffs in the case were in the US illegally. But he let them challenge a city ordinance on immigration anyway – and anonymously.
And so it's been in America for too long: Turn a blind eye to the massive lawbreaking of an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.
Imagine if a scofflaw wanted by the FBI had sued a city for enacting a criminal law tougher than a federal law. Would that person also be given a day in court?
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Face it, we are TOO OPEN in the USA. Most countries on this planet would NEVER reserve such "rights" to people not legally on their soil.
We are such saps. How did we get this way!!!??? It defies all logic and fairness.
how can this judge be legally removed??
Yeah, pretty accurate.
Incompetence surely! The case will never hold up on appeal.
“Face it, we are TOO OPEN in the USA. Most countries on this planet would NEVER reserve such “rights” to people not legally on their soil.”
Protecting criminals from the law is insanity!
Eventually they will have more rights than citizens. It may be that way already. Certainly, they seems to be exempt from laws and regulations that apply to citizens. I know that if I got caught driving without a license, my ass would be hauled off to jail.
“Imagine if a scofflaw wanted by the FBI had sued a city for enacting a criminal law tougher than a federal law. Would that person also be given a day in court?”
BINGO
Disband the border patrol. It’s for show anyway, El Presidente....
I don’t see how this will stand, as the article states the SCOTUS has already made other decisions that allow local govts to exceed fed regulations.
OK, everybody knock it off! You are going to make Karl Rove angry.
He knows what’s best for you. Very soon these illegals are going to vote straight Republican. Also, the companies that exploit them by paying them $10/hr without benefits will make huge profits that will allow them to make large contributions to the Republican party.
This is capitalism at its best. Stop fighting it or they will get an illegal to take your job, too.
/cynicism
The real question here is: What are WE going to do about this insanity? Our politicians can/will not act, except to give illegals more civil rights, immunity from the law, etc. I suggest that the time is now here for citizens to act. IMHO failure to deal with this will bring war to the US.
Man, last time I was in Hazleton (15 years ago) it was a dying coal town on the edge of the Poconos, where half the population seemed to be over 65. How quick things change!
Constitution of the United States; Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Someday in this illegal immigration debate some judge is going to read this.
Hazleton should just continue enforcing its ordinance prohibiting anyone from hiring or renting to illegals.
we have a winner
Logically, it dissolves the United States of America, by denying the legitimacy and significance of citizenship. This is really happening, IMHO. The denials are of the form, “Don’t be ridiculous, and anyway only a rightwing bigot WOULDN’T want to dissolve the USA.”
... but who am I ?
The Minuteman organization, IMHO, after all this nonsense by now, should be about 10 times it’s strength and should be effective in stopping mass waves of intruders on foot. Maybe it has not come to that yet for the average Joe Sixpack out there, but I am telling you, he is slated to lose everything and he won’t know what hit him. They better wake up and get involved and shut the border down through people power.
Hazelton wasn't trying to dictate what immigrants do. It was trying to regulate landlords and businesses. And if I understand the 1986 immigration law correctly, it specifically provided local governments with the right to impose rules about illegal immigrants as part of the business licensing process.
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