Posted on 05/09/2010 5:43:22 PM PDT by Libloather
Holder: Feds may sue over Arizona immigration law
By the CNN Wire Staff
May 9, 2010 2:06 p.m. EDT
Washington (CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that the Justice Department was considering a federal lawsuit against Arizona's new immigration law.
"We are considering all of our options. One possibility is filing a lawsuit," Holder told NBC's "Meet the Press." Possible grounds for the lawsuit would be whether the Arizona law could lead to civil rights violations, he said.
The recently enacted Arizona law initially allowed police to ask anyone for proof of legal U.S. residency, based solely on a police officer's suspicion that the person might be in the country illegally. Arizona lawmakers soon amended the law so that officers could check a person's status only if the person had been stopped or arrested for another reason.
Critics say the law will lead to racial profiling, while supporters say it involves no racial profiling and is needed to crack down on increasing crime involving illegal immigrants.
In Arizona, the city councils of Tucson and Flagstaff have decided to challenge the new immigration law in court.
Holder told ABC's "This Week" program that one concern about the Arizona law is that "you'll end up in a situation where people are racially profiled, and that could lead to a wedge drawn between certain communities and law enforcement, which leads to the problem of people in those communities not willing to interact with people in law enforcement, not willing to share information, not willing to be witnesses where law enforcement needs them."
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If Arizona is not allowed to enforce Federal immigration law, than i say the rest of the states should refuse to enforce ANY Federal laws, including gun control laws. Either states can enforce federal laws or they cannot.
This oughta be a hoot...the chief LEO in the nation doesn’t recognize a state law that READS EXACTLY LIKE FEDERAL LAW. Anybody got some popcorn?
We will have to chose between Liberty and Money.
>>Prior to the inauguration, that was the reason many courts gave for refusing to look at the Obama birth certificate issue.<<
Good point — afterwards, the same courts said you can’t bring the action because the election renders the issue moot.
Maybe truth and justice just can’t freaking win.
Ya think things are bad now....wait. Bad isn’t here yet but It looks like it’s about to arrive.
That’s the part that struck me...there is a possibility that maybe something might happen? How do you not get laughed out of court on that one?
It’s the government against US. Not a good thing.
This above is a bald face lie.
1) The ARuzona Statute coes int effect only if an officer has probable cause to question a person under any other law, such as a traffic law.Then if the officer notices that there are signs of illegal immigration ( eg. nervousness, clothing from outside the USA)he can ask the proper questions. 2) The Arizona law is authorized by Federeal Imiigration law that allows th states to enforce its operative provisions. Holder will not bring a court case, unless he wants to be laughed out of the court room.
Let’s Roll !!
I can see the AZ counterclaim: You didn’t do it so we did, so you owe us money.
If I recall, the first judge in Hawaii said it wasn’t in the public interest to look into Obama’s birth certificate. Seems to me that the public interest is clearly against them on this one.
We’ve even got a legislator planning to introduce a similar bill here in Michigan.
As we’ve seen with the Hutaree case, the feds aren’t all of the same mind.
“The Arizona law quotes the Federal law verbatim. He needs to sue himself.”
I’m fairly sure you’re talking sarcastically, but my brother (atty) managed to leave a plaintiff in exactly that position.
[grossly simplified] He was representing a pair of women whose husbands had owned a bldg and ran a business therefrom for probably 35 years. When real estate was running up, the city in which the property was located, Emeryville, CA, which used to be intensely industrial, seized the property under eminent domain, while simultaneously claiming the property was badly polluted. This property adjoined Southern Pacific RR tracks near a Standard Oil refinery (prob from the 1890’s) and was undoubtedly among tanning factories, battery rebuilding factories, chemical plants, plating companies, etc etc, you name it. It was without question badly polluted. However, nobody but the seizing authority (generously paid off by the developer) was doing any disturbing of the dirt, really cared. As long as the prop was not changing hands, it was in an “OK” state having been paved over. (aka “cap in place”)
Bottom line, the city was grabbing a $2.2 MM property but offering about 1/10th that to the women because that’s (appx $2 MM) what the estimates were for remediation.
After careful research, my brother determined that the city had itself brought over barges and barges of wreckage and building rubble from the SF earthquake, in 1906, to create the land itself in the SF bay! This predated any of the crude chem-spillage activity from the 20’s-30’s, so the city ended up effectively suing itself. And the developer went BK.
And two women, whose incomes depended upon the rent from the bldg (had been used by another co for 15 years) and about 120 people (from the co that leased the bldg) lost their jobs for this scheme, the city tore down the bldg, and what’s there now is an an empty lot with a whole load of remediation wells and pipes sticking out of it.
As I read the headline, the first thing that popped into my head was Paul Shanklin's new song "See You in November" -- a beautiful sentiment set to a familiar old tune!
Youtube: See You in November!
Frickin unbelievable - Justice department wondering what to do in the face of a state protecting its borders from insurgents...........priceless.
Exactly. Plus, think of the message in this: the Department of Justice of the United States of America under Hussein takes the side of ILLEGAL aliens against American citizens and a measure to ensure their lives, their property and their sovereignty.
It just doesn’t get any better than this!
By whom? Profiling solely on the basis of race has never been "good police work".
Profiling against a list of known bad indicators is good police work.
Well, then... how about a class action against Holder and his boss for failure to do their job? Huh?
Eric Holder is an immigrant from Barbados and same for his wife. He is too chickenshit to sue because his boss 0bama figures the democrats will lose even bigger in November
Bring it on commies! Sue already! We’ll see you in November!
True. You never solve any crime if you’re looking for an Asian in a sedan and go around pulling over Asians in pickup trucks.
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