Posted on 09/23/2003 7:46:37 PM PDT by Tancredo Fan
FILE urges Ashcroft to rein in California
Issue 167: September 23, 2003
+== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+
Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement (FILE <http://fileus.com> ) is urging the U.S. Justice Department to challenge a new California law that will allow illegal aliens to obtain official California driver's licenses. In a September 23 letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft, FILE argues that the new law is in conflict with federal immigration law, and is therefore unconstitutional.
Under Federal law, it is illegal to encourage a foreign national to reside illegally in the United States. The courts have held that "encouraging" includes actions that permit illegal aliens to be more confident that they may continue to reside with impunity in the United States.
As FILE points out in its letter, a state law granting driver's licenses to illegal aliens is, unquestionably, an action that encourages illegal aliens to remain in the United States, and is therefore in conflict with Federal immigration law.
Under the Commerce Clause of Article I of the U.S. Constitution, the Congress is delegated almost total authority over every aspect of immigration policy, and under the Supremacy Clause of Article VI, when a state law conflicts with a federal law enacted pursuant to Congress' delegated authority, the state law must yield.
The driver's licenses for illegals debate in California has taken on ominous racial and ethnic overtones, showing that the political consequences of mass immigration threatens the very foundation of the country itself--the rule of law based on our written Constitution.
California's new driver's licenses for illegal aliens law (and a number of other states have enacted similar laws) has overstepped the bounds of permissible state actions, and it is the duty of the Federal government to rein California in by legally challenging the new law as unconstitutional.
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A welcome mat for criminal immigrants <http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20030919-075641-4028r.htm> (Washington Times)
California Gives Driver's Licenses to Illegals <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,97610,00.html> (Matt Hayes/Fox News)
Sparks fly at conference between U.S. and Mexican legislators <http://www.vdare.com/awall/saltillo.htm> (Wall/VDARE)
In Texas Senate, a Racial Outburst <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37207-2003Sep19.html> (Washington Post)
Text of letter to John Ashcroft <http://fileus.com/library/letters/03-09-23-ashcroft-california.html> (FILE)
+== TAKE POSITIVE ACTION ==+
Advocates for a more modern and moderate immigration policy are alarmed by what appears to be a national immigration policy beset by increasing anarchy and chaos. In a world in which there are nearly five billion people living in countries poorer than Mexico -- a world hopelessly plagued by ethnic, racial, class, religious, tribal, and cultural strife, it is spectacularly irresponsible for our national leaders to turn immigration policy over to local racial panderers, ethnic identity power-mongers, and selfish business interests.
The Federal government must take immediate steps to rein in California. Please call the DoJ's public comment line and leave a message something like:
"I am calling about the new law in California that will give driver's licenses to illegal aliens. In my opinion, this law conflicts with U.S. immigration law, and is therefore unconstitutional. In my view, immigration is out-of-control, and I urge the Department of Justice to step up to the plate, do its duty, and challenge the California law."
Office of the Attorney General 202-353-1555
(As always, your gifts <https://www.donation-net.net/ProjectUSA/donate.cfm?dn=1039&commid=605005&id=15805> to ProjectUSA, which serves as the fund-raising arm for FILE, provide crucial support for this and everything else we do.)
+== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+
"If we say that IDs issued by foreign governments are not valid, we are forcing [illegal aliens] into a black market just to identify themselves."
Cecilia Munoz, vice president for policy at the National Council of La Raza [The Race] on the issue of the matricula consular cards, which California will be accepting in granting driver's licenses
+== EMAIL OF THE WEEK ==+
Your organization is not going to do any good. Mexico is here in the US and it's a losing battle for you to try to stop it.
Georgina Herrera
herrerasummit@msn.com
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Just introduce a bill in congress stripping any state which issues driver's licenses to illegals of all federal highway dollars.
Prob solved. Ashcroft busy saving the world from porn and weed will go uninterupted.
The less Ashcroft has to do with anything, the better. We do have a congress you know. Despite the fact that they've been letting the courts/judicial write all our laws of the past decade, they might be able to do something on their own.......
Yo Dog...This is a great idea!
It won't be any surprise. The guy is a complete waste of friggin' oxygen. Of course that's why he was appointed. Look at his colleagues; Spencer 'Osama' Abraham, Asa 'It Ain't My Yob' Hutchinson, and that moron Tom Ridge. A buffet of brain death.
Why not tie highway funds to immigration?
You got it right. I seem to remember a similar law regarding lowering the DUI presumption to .08.
I favor the simpler approach. Dissallow the California Driver's Liscense as a valid form of identification at all federal transportation security check points.
No congressional circus, no major accounting changes and ALL Californians get the message.
Compromise within the legislature would just create two classes of licenses. One for in-state use and one for air travel. And not many illegals jet hop about the terra firma. They go greyhound.........
AGREE
No wiser words could be spoken.
And that's a good thing? Jiminey Christmas what is conservatism without federalism?
Who needs Ashcroft?
It's no problem, I went to the DMV today, when I got to the window, some over weight weirdo, with hogjaws started speaking to me in some strange language. So I started babbling incoherently like her. She gave me a dirty look and she pushed some paper through the window, and snarled, "gimme ur money". I signed Joe Hadenuf and they took my picture and gave me a license. They didn't even ask me to remove my cowboy hat and sunglasses for the photo! I really like this homeland security. They don't miss a trick!
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