Posted on 06/10/2017 4:11:56 AM PDT by lowbridge
The Iowa Supreme Court says immigrants living in Iowa without legal permission and who use a stolen identity to get a job cannot be prosecuted by the state for identity theft or forgery.
The court, in ruling Friday on the case of 31-year-old Martha Martinez, says such immigration-related prosecutions are up to federal authorities not county prosecutors.
Martinez, who lives in Muscatine, was charged after she obtained a driver's license and Social Security number under the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(Excerpt) Read more at kcci.com ...
Law is in the court, justice in the alley.
I wonder if she voted?
Are they saying there no laws Iowa against using someone else’s id?
SESSIONS should disbar these judges. This ruling was made to ensure cheap farm labor remains in IOWA.
PING
Impeach them.
But, given a choice between deportation and paying the cost of prosecution (and a judge is going to let them off on that anyway), better to deport them.
The state enforcement mechanism is on notice to this fact. If the identity thief is an alien, skip state law, go directly to ICE. Thank you judge!
It’s getting about time to start forming up onto well regulated militias. This is absolute LAWLESSNESS.
Can a legal citizen be prosecuted for the same offense?
Equal Protection... I rest my case.
That law can not be enforced against aliens, says the Iowa Supreme Court. It does apply to US citizens. Equal protection, doncha know. "Equal" of course being legal code for "discriminatory depending on class."
It's probably too late. What is needed is an amendment to the Constitution that nothing can be overturned without a panel of at least three impartial judges making that decision. Another nice restriction would be if any decision by judges only apply to their jurisdiction. The more I think about it, the worse I realize it is. One federal judge in Hawaii can overturn an order by the President of the US. That's chilling.
So if a resident of a state other than
Iowa uses a fake id in Iowa, the state courts have
no jurisdiction?
THIS is the judge's reason?? Is this person even sane?? The crime is the fraudulent use of documents and the commission of perjury in obtaining them, not "immigration laws". I also note that the article does not give the judges name. Anyone closer to the scene know who it is, as they should hear about it.
Would this have meant David Banner would have gotten away with this when he was David Baxter or David Blackwell or David Blair, etc, etc?
Gee, I guess under the 14th amendment no one can be charged in Iowa!
Don’t forget Richard Kimball.
He did the multiple identities first.
Before everyone goes off on the judge.....
There may be a solid legal basis for the jurisdictional ruling.....
The credentials were obtained by the defendant via a Federal “Law”, an Obama executive order.
The state court just punted the case to the federal court....didn’t rule on merit or make political comment...
How does this help the person whose identity was stolen? Once again American citizens get no justice when it comes to illegals.
Neither criminal conviction nor deportation helps the victim.
-- Once again American citizens get no justice when it comes to illegals. --
"Justice" in the US is a for-profit industry to the benefit of lawyers, judges, and jailers.
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