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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BRING IT ON, Incompetent Commie!!
Racial profiling use to be considered good police work.
If the Commies file a suit against AZ re: this law, this will be very good for the GOP in November. The majority of people ARE IN FAVOR OF THIS LAW. So yes, bring it on Obama and Holder.
Ping!
There is nothing to sue over in a sane world.
The AZ law is just the same as the Fed Law ... I don’t see what grounds they’d have. Any Atty’s around that might have an idea?
The Arizona law quotes the Federal law verbatim. He needs to sue himself.
Isn’t this law based on a Federal law?
This is a violation of their civil rights by racy profiling of young sexy ladies.
Help!
Where is the ACLU when we need them?
Should be an interesting fight. The feds suing to prevent a state from doing a job the feds are supposed to do but aren’t.
Can’t be bothered to not only not prosecute Black Panthers, but even answer questions from the Senate on WHY he didn’t, and yet he can challenge a state that mirrors federal law.
The feds are going to sue a state for enforcing federal law...LOL! The insanity never ends.
>>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. <<
Anyone who has taken a basic law class knows you can’t bring a claim for a wrong that hasn’t happened yet.
Hey Holder, lose more votes for the RATs.
Americans still have to pay for the rope to hang ourselves.
rt: The Arizona law quotes the Federal law verbatim.
Yeah, well, other than that, Arizona is in a whole lotta trouble, let me tell you...
So in effect they would be sueing themselves because the law passed in Arizona is a state law to enforce existing federal law.Bring it on.The arrogance is unbelievable.
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