Posted on 04/20/2010 3:58:47 PM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON — Hispanic leaders in the House of Representatives called Tuesday for President Barack Obama Tuesday to act against Arizona's anti-illegal immigration legislation and to throw his weight behind a comprehensive immigration overhaul.
Reps. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., demanded a halt to the bill that passed Arizona's Senate Monday. The state's House of Representatives passed it last week. If Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signs it into law, the bill would require immigrants to carry alien registration cards with them at all times and police to check people's immigration status whenever there's "reasonable suspicion" that they are in the country illegally.
Grijalva and Gutierrez said that if Brewer, a Republican, signs the bill into law, the Obama administration should step in to stop it.
"The president of the United States should simply say, 'On the issue of immigration, the Constitution is clear, my power is clear — I'm going to regulate immigration in the United States from a federal level,'" Gutierrez said.
Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund who appeared with the congressmen at a news conference, said that the Department of Homeland Security could end agreements that allow Arizona law enforcement to police immigration laws or the Justice Department could challenge the initiative as a violation of civil rights law.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
I pulled out my pocket copy of the US Constitution and I don’t see where Obama has the power to keep Arizona from enforcing immigration laws. In fact, the only mention of immigration is Article 1 Section 8, where it says Congress is, “To establish an uniform rule of Naturalization.”
Why is he having problems with states enforcing federal laws? I bet Obama would scream to high heaven if states said they weren’t going to enforce Federal firearms laws.
We are praying!!!! I honestly don’t know. When I work at home later this week, I am getting on the phone lines to call her... :((
The gov (when she was sec of state) did fight Nappy and took care of getting Prop 200 (ID reqs for voting, etc.) through, course that was awhile ago now...
I’m sure you’re tracking all of this already but... :(( Grrr, let’s roll and git ‘er done.
You know, I hadn’t heard this, BQ! I’ve been gone all day, and have stayed off the National News channels, because “O” is ALWAYS sticking his face in front of the camera, spouting his ‘Messianic lies’.
OMG, thank you for pinging me - I will certainly look into this one.
If these people had a brain, they would know bambi can’t do a dang thing about it. But then there is no problem a strong federal government can’t solve to a socialist.
Oh good, didn’t want to overload you if you already heard about it...
I feel like I’ve been listening all day, first on the radio on the way in, then at work, now reading all over the place here.... Unreal that we have to beat off the Marxists like this. Again. Unreal that the criminals even have this much of a voice.
And omg about BO, that POS.
That, or the Second...
Could it be because they not only like paying through the nose to incarcerate them,
they love the trash spewn all over our country,
they love the drunk drivers who kill entire families,
they love those who molest infants and toddlers,
they love knowing their daughter may be gang raped
they love all the drugs being brought into our country
they love watching their neighbors homes ransacked,
they love seeing their families identities stolen,
they love paying through the nose at the ER, and seeing all the illegals get free health care,
they love watching them buy t-bone steaks for their dogs with food stamps, while they eat chicken
They love telling their teens that the reason they can't get a job in this country, is because the illegals get paid under the table - tax free
and the main reason? They will get VOTES!!!
and own......and own.......and own........and own.
TRAITOROUS IDIOTS TO THE MAX UP TO THEIR USUAL.
THX.
These "people" are effin marxist members of the CPC who by all rights should be rounded up like all of the other commies in the CPC for violating their oaths of offices and trying to destroy the capitalist system.
The lose of the 10th or any threats against it will enforce the 2nd...
Are these people representatives from some foreign country?
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/
http://cpusa.org/party-program/
Idiots! They don't know what the 10th amendment is all about? Or do they think "to hell with the Constitution"?
They haven’t seen anything yet
Its not enough to vote out the marxists in swing districts and regain the majority, that will be the easy part.
It needs to be coupled with the destruction of the communist "Congressional Progressive Caucus" as an above ground legitimate organization.
Its members and supporters need to be exposed as reds, prosecuted and imprisoned where evidence of criminality is uncovered, and the organization itself driven back underground like in the 50's when the marxists met in secret to plot the communist revolution, not changed their names to "Progressives" and did it in our faces.
Sorry Reps. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., but he can’t do that.
Wanted tiapam to see this! (She is going to ask everyone to ping her to the ‘illegal’ threads.)
Oh, right on! And illegal threads we have all too many of.... :-o(
I wish somebody would tell that to the Main Lean Media, John McLettuce and all of those serving their constituents in Washington, DC!
“Do you think your governor will sign it? She must!!!”
She will.
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