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.
“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.
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.
bump
ping
The USA is now a country that punishes its own citizens and grants favored status to those who break our laws bringing crime, disease, and gross financial burden to us.
I guess that does not matter to the elites. They live in their fancy communities. The closest they get to an illegal is to have their yardwork done.
Right now, they are in Congress sneaking components of that CIR into other legislation behind our backs.
Traitorous and un American. They have left “we the people” out of their agenda. Taxing us is all they do anymore.
The founding fathers were very, very clear. The federal government should be the weakest part of our government. The local government should be the strongest because the closer you get to the people, the more it is in connection with the people and its will .........That's why you're seeing communities (like Hazelton) starting to step in........
Will someone please tell me which laws I can break? Which laws do the rest of us get to ignore? Why should we honor and respect the law when our own government, when our own courts advocate for scofflaws?