ACLU Sues To Stop Arizona's Immigration Law [Calls AZ Law "Shameful and Un-American"]

ACLU Sues To Stop Arizona's Immigration Law A class-action suit filed by civil rights groups argues that the measure will lead to racial profiling and violates the Constitution.

Several civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to halt a controversial new Arizona law that requires local police to enforce federal immigration regulations. The lawsuit is at least the fourth filed since Republican Gov. Jan Brewer last month signed the law, which makes it a state crime to lack immigration paperwork in Arizona and requires police to determine the status of people they suspect are illegal immigrants. The federal class-action claim contends that the law will lead to widespread racial profiling, infringes on the federal government's ability to set immigration policy and violates the Constitution's 1st and 4th amendments.

"This law is shameful, un-American, it will undermine public safety and it is unconstitutional," said Lucas Guttentag, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, among the groups that filed the suit. Also named are the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center.

It took the conscience of Arizona to announce to the world that the things endemic to the Third World----drug-running, illiteracy, serfdom, slavery, ruling elites, armed street patrols, mob rule, bribery as a way of life----do not fly here

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Mexico's Calderon to protest Arizona law to Obama
Optionetics - Market News | By Catherine Bremer and Adriana Barrera
FR Posted May 14 by Natural Born 54

MEXICO CITY, May 13 (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon will protest to Pres Barack Obama when he comes to Washington next week about Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants, Calderon told Reuters. Calderon said a law that will come into force in Arizona in July, requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they suspect is in the United States illegally, was already affecting relations between the two neighbors. "It contains elements that are frankly discriminatory, terribly backward," Calderon told Reuters in an interview.

Calderon He said he would bring Mexico's protest over the law to a meeting with Obama and when he addresses the US Congress during an official visit to Washington next week. (Excerpt) Read more at optionetics.com ...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon can hardly contain his revulsion and rage against Arizona’s SB 1070. He’s "deeply troubled" reports the Associated Press over a law he denounces as "discriminatory and racist," not to mention “a dire threat to the whole Hispanic-American population." This new Arizona law "opens the door to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement," sputters the Mexican President.

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Indeed, this “threat to Hispanics” and these “abuses in law enforcement," have been ongoing for years.

The Associated Press carried a story where a Maria Elena Gonzalez, reported how female migrants were “forced to strip by abusive police officers, supposedly to search them, but the purpose is to sexually abuse them." Jose Ramos, 18, reported “that extortion by border police occurs at every stop on their migratory route. Until migrants are left penniless and begging for food.”

According to AP: “Others said they had seen migrants beaten to death by police, their bodies left near the railway tracks to make it look as if they had fallen from a train.

"If you're carrying any money, they take it from you," said Carlos Lopez. "Federal, state, local police--all of them shake you down. If you're on a bus, they pull you off and search your pockets, and if you have any money, they keep it all and say, get out of here.” Police shake down motorists on bogus traffic stops so regularly it is like going through a toll - money paid right there on the spot or your car gets impounded.

All of the above “hate” and “abuses in law enforcement” as reported by the Associated Press, befell Central American migrants who enter Mexico. (Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com

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Go home Calderon----we spit on you, your countrymen, and your ambitions to undermine US security via Azatlan.

The ACLU is a crime syndicate...

ACLU, Gitmo lawyers exposed CIA agent identities

The ACLU and defense attorneys for detainees at Guantanamo Bay surveilled and took pictures of CIA agents and then showed the photos to terrorists at Gitmo.

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Lucas Guttentag directs the Immigrants Rights Project for the national offices of the American Civil Liberties Union. Formerly a clerk for Texas federal judge William Wayne Justice and a civil rights attorney and law professor, Guttentag joined the American Civil Liberties Union national office in 1985.

Guttentag founded the Immigrants’ Rights Project (IRP) in New York in 1987 and established the California office in 1996. Under his direction, the IRP’s staff conducts a program of national impact litigation, advocacy and public education to enforce and expand the constitutional and civil rights of immigrants.

Guttentag is a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and Stanford Law School, where he teaches courses on the constitutional and civil rights of immigrants. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley (1973) and his law degree from Harvard Law School (1978).

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to eliminate unfairness caused by the Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments passed by Congress in 1986. One of the biggest obstacles they faced, Guttentag says, was the entrenched judicial doctrine of “plenary power”-that the Constitution gives Congress virtually unreviewable control over immigration law. “Our goal is to ensure the same protection of individual rights for immigrants as for other people in our society,” Guttentag says. “The Constitution speaks of ‘persons’ not citizens when it imposes limits on the government’s power. There should not be automatic deference to the political branches of government.”

Since 1996, however, the focus has changed. In the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), Congress created a whole new set of issues that have had Guttentag and Project staff working overtime. Guttentag conceived the strategy and has led efforts nationwide to challenge provisions that strip the federal courts of jurisdiction to review deportation decisions by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) against legal immigrants convicted of certain crimes. Guttentag concluded that the new court-stripping laws could not be fought in the traditional class-action mode of past civil rights battles

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