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United States v. Arizona — How 'Bout United States v. Rhode Island?
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| July 7, 2010
| Andy McCarthy
Posted on 07/28/2010 1:15:30 PM PDT by SloopJohnB
Well whaddya know? It turns out that Rhode Island has long been carrying out the procedures at issue in the Arizona immigration statute: As a matter of routine, RI state police check immigration status at traffic stops whenever there is reasonable suspicion to do so, and they report all illegals to the feds for deportation. Besides the usual profiling blather, critics have trotted out the now familiar saw that such procedures hamstring police because they make immigrants afraid to cooperate. But it turns out that its the Rhode Island police who insist on enforcing the law. As Cornell law prof William Jacobson details at Legal Insurrection, Colonel Brendan P. Doherty, the state police commander, refuses to hide from the issue, explaining, I would feel that Im derelict in my duties to look the other way.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; US: Arizona; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: alien; aliens; doj; illegal; immigration
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Another classic! De Canas v. Bica (1976): States may enact legislation to discourage illegal immigration within their jurisdictions. Horrors! Profiling?
To: SloopJohnB
The gov. or RI was on Fox a week or 2 ago. I don’t understand why nobody has picked up on this - not even Fox
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posted on
07/28/2010 1:18:17 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: SloopJohnB
OK.....if the police can’t ask for verification of citizenship and they have no license or any other identification, the police should hold them and turn them over to ICE...........all of them. Arizona should be able to pass a law stating that if a person is not a legal citizen of the United States, they cannot be a citizen, or resident, of the State of Arizona and must leave.
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posted on
07/28/2010 1:20:55 PM PDT
by
RC2
(Remember who we are. "I am America")
To: SloopJohnB
To: SloopJohnB
Maybe Jan Brewer can turn this into some kind of discrimination suit against the feds?
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posted on
07/28/2010 1:27:28 PM PDT
by
NEMDF
To: NEMDF
Equal Rights for Arizona!
To: SloopJohnB
There's quite a few folks here who don't seem to mind that it some time ago it was the President v. the Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, et al. Americas chickens comin' home to roost.
ML/NJ
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posted on
07/28/2010 1:32:41 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: SloopJohnB
Our communists leader King Obama just used AZ to prove he is America's confirmed dictator. Watch out now, this rotten piece of corruption will hit us with the final blows. November won't mean much.
To: Logical me
I certainly hope appeals are in the pipeline.
This is not over by a long shot.
I want to hear from the Supreme Court before I panic.
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posted on
07/28/2010 1:42:54 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
To: SloopJohnB
States should enact legislation to discourage Washington (the fed gov’t) within their jurisdictions.
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posted on
07/28/2010 1:44:18 PM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
(I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
To: Publius6961
== I want to hear from the Supreme Court before I panic.==
Did you miss my post #1 and their ruling in article?
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posted on
07/28/2010 1:54:06 PM PDT
by
SloopJohnB
(San Andreas Fault: Is it time to rename it Bush's Fault?)
To: SloopJohnB
...United States v. Arizona How 'Bout United States v. Rhode Island?...Because it's not a crisis in Rhode Island. The Alinsky radicals in the White House don't see the opportunity in RI as they do in AZ.
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posted on
07/28/2010 1:54:57 PM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(The problem is they do not fear us.)
To: Logical me
I have been predicting that the Democreeps and Obummer will simultaneously a.) work to have amnesty declared for illegals, b.) work to remove the electoral college to make it mob vote, and c.) if the aforementioned don't work in their favor, contrive a “national security event” thereby declaring martial law and voiding this and future elections. Stock up on essentials and ammo. It's going to be a long siege.
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posted on
07/28/2010 1:55:34 PM PDT
by
dumpthelibs
(dumpthelibs)
To: SloopJohnB
Getin to where 0’b don’t know which foot to shuffle first??
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posted on
07/28/2010 1:59:39 PM PDT
by
Waco
(From Seward to Sarah)
To: SloopJohnB
How about United States v. Sanctuary Cities?
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posted on
07/28/2010 2:13:50 PM PDT
by
Mojave
(Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
To: SloopJohnB
WE NEED A NATIONAL RALLY FOR THE 1070 IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT LAW THIS SATURDAY..or soon.
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posted on
07/28/2010 5:32:23 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
It turns out that Rhode Island has long been carrying out the procedures at issue in the Arizona immigration statute: As a matter of routine, RI state police check immigration status at traffic stops whenever there is reasonable suspicion to do so, and they report all illegals to the feds for deportation. Besides the usual profiling blather, critics have trotted out the now familiar saw that such procedures hamstring police because they make immigrants afraid to cooperate. But it turns out that itâs the Rhode Island police who insist on enforcing the law.
Thanks SloopJohnB.
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posted on
07/28/2010 7:30:42 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: FReepaholic; SloopJohnB
Because it's not a crisis in Rhode Island. The Alinsky radicals in the White House don't see the opportunity in RI as they do in AZ. RI could be a stealth case! So small, so easily overlooked....
"Poor little Rhode Island / The smallest of the Forty-eight
"You've got no prairie moon / For which coyotes croon
"But I still think that you're great!"
-- Sammy Cahn
To: Logical me
Over the next two months things are going to be kicked up a notch or two.
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posted on
07/28/2010 8:34:30 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has it limits.)
To: SloopJohnB
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