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Posted on 06/01/2010 3:16:34 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
The Obama Administration has asked the Supreme Court to prohibit Arizona from enforcing a two-year-old measure—signed into law by former Governor Janet Napolitano—punishing businesses that hire illegal immigrants.
Ironically, President Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary ardently supported the law when she signed it in 2007 though she refuses to comment on her boss’s campaign to eliminate it. Considered the nation’s toughest measure against businesses that hire illegal aliens, the Legal Arizona Workers Act requires employers to verify that employees are authorized to work in the U.S. Those caught hiring illegal workers are severely punished and can have their license revoked.
Legally challenged by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups, the law has been repeatedly upheld by lower courts. Last week the Obama Administration urged the Supreme Court to toss out those rulings by preventing Arizona from enforcing the measure because federal immigration law expressly preempts any state law imposing sanctions on employers hiring illegal immigrants.
The Arizona law disrupts "a careful balance that Congress struck nearly 25 years ago between two interests of the highest importance: ensuring that employers do not undermine enforcement of immigration laws by hiring unauthorized workers, while also ensuring that employers not discriminate against racial and ethnic minorities legally in the country," according to a brief filed by the administration.
The reality is however, that virtually no employers have been punished even though Arizona is estimated to have hundreds of thousands of illegal workers. A chunk of the money (about $5 million) allocated by the legislature for enforcement remains unspent in municipalities throughout the state and many county prosecutors complain that the law is virtually impossible to enforce because it doesn’t give local authorities charged with pursuing violators civil subpoena power to examine personnel records that could prove illegal aliens were knowingly hired.
Regardless, the law has achieved part of its goal because scores of illegal immigrants have fled to other states in the last few years or back to their Latin American homelands, according to a Texas newspaper report that says many have relocated in the Lone Star State. Parents have pulled their kids out of public schools, construction workers have abandoned their jobs and families have hastily moved out of apartments.
The Obama Administration is also preparing to fight another Arizona law—scheduled to take effect July 29—that makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. without proper documentation. The measure (SB1070) also bans “sanctuary city” policies and requires local police to check the immigration status of all residents that have any encounters with law enforcement. Although the state measure was adopted from the federal statute, Obama claims it’s unconstitutional and racist.
Ping!
This has to be satire. How dare he? And why isn't this all over the news?
Maybe the SOTUS will tell him that he doesn’t have legal standing.
There must be some sinister reason why they are suing after 2 years.
Bingo. This is the crux of the matter. If AZ decides to genuinely punish businesses for illegal hiring, the work envirnment for illegals will be toxic. The illegals will move on. As more states echo AZ, the illegals will likely go home. It would be a process.
This bastard is a destructive worm, a monster eating the heart of America out from within. He is the first anti-American President.
I hope SCOTUS tells El Supremo to go stuff it by refusing to hear this case.
This decision will have implications also for those states declaring themselves sovereign with respect to the bastard’s Administration’s attempts to subvert the Second Amendment, and rejection of his unconstitutional Health Care Bill.
I hope most of the members of SCOTUS are aware of the implications of what this bastard is trying to do.
If Americans can’t take their Country back legally from within the system, an adverse decision by SCOTUS here will leave them with only prior historic precedent within which to act as an alternative. That could result in another civil war even more destructive than the first, or submitting to an absolute tyranny.
Incrementally, we are viewing the destruction of our Republic by a Marxist Muslim.
Obama, like Bush before him, has refused to fulfill his oath as President by enforcing the law of the land and protecting America from violent, dangerous invaders.
In such a case, the most benign response of the citizenry is to do exactly what Arizona has done. Assume the responsibility for acting on those laws the Federal Government has chosen to ignore.
This will be a precedent setting case.
I couldn’t have said it any better. He scares me to death
A classical liberal idiot, Bush started us down the wrong road but Barry is doing “a great job” continuing down the same path? The human capacity for self delusion appears to be limitless.
People told me that if I voted for McCain we would stay involved in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the economy would continue to fall apart and we would lose our liberty. I voted for McCain and I am still amazed at the accuracy of their prophecy.
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