Posted on 05/16/2010 10:22:16 AM PDT by mdittmar
The AFL-CIO and the nation’s largest civil rights coalition issued a strongly worded call for the Obama administration to sever its ties with law enforcement officials in Arizona or be complicit in the state’s racial-profiling anti-immigrant law, also known as S.B. 1070.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR), a coalition of more than 200 organizations, urged the administration to immediately stop cooperating with local law enforcement officials in Arizona.
Writing in Huffington Post today, Sam Stein says the AFL-CIO LCCR letter
is by far the most serious effort to date to make Arizona’s new immigration law untenable for the state. Other groups have urged economic and travel boycotts as a way to target the state government’s tourism revenues. Should [the Department of Homeland Security] adopt the AFL-CIO’s suggestion (and it’s a big question whether the Department will) it would deny the state the type of law enforcement expertise that the immigration law was designed to beef up in the first place.
Click here to read Stein’s entire post.
In the letter, Trumka and Henderson say:
We write to express our deep concern with the Department of Homeland Security’s continued cooperation with state and local law enforcement in Arizona pursuant to Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (”the 287(g) program”) in the aftermath of Arizona’s passage of Senate Bill 1070, and we ask that you immediately rescind all 287(g) program agreements in Arizona.
Read the AFL-CIO LCCR letter here.
Under Section 287(g) agreements, Homeland Security trains members of eight state and local law enforcement agencies in Arizona, including the state police, which allows the officers to enforce immigration laws.
Trumka and Henderson add:
We are grateful that President Obama has spoken out to correctly call the Arizona law “misguided.” However, more than words are required from the federal government at this time. Unless DHS terminates all 287(g) program agreements in Arizona, the federal government will be complicit in the racial profiling that lies at the heart of the Arizona law. Such a result would place the DHS at odds with this Administration’s stated views on SB I070, and at odds with basic American values of tolerance and non-discrimination.
To read more about the growing momentum to repeal Arizona’s onerous law, click here, here and here.
>>The rest of America must cut ties with the AFL_CIO.
AND the federal government!!
Is there any way to inform the union thugs to get lost? That when unbammy went to Washington DC he did not take the unions along?
Brought to you by the same douchebags who scream “Buy American”. Which is it?
“untenable”
This is the left’s specialty....the MSM/Hollywood/Dnc/Academia.
When this war room unites in a relentless cause...our Rightwing leaders, candidates, nominees, Presidents, officeholders, talk show hosts, and our own media.....DIE a slow death.
Does any union represent their members anymore?
They don’t have many members any more. That is why they are looking at recruiting the illegal alien workforce.
The ALF-CIO goons can eat fecal matter and croak.
They see millions and millions of new union workers, and millions and millions more in union dues. Not to mention the millions and millions of union-supporting new demrat voters,,,,,.......
Re your tagline: Why do you expect a Muslim to go to church on Sunday?
Isn’t this just another way of saying “we need a civilian security force just as well-funded as our military.”?
Liberals are fleeing Arizona.
Illegals are fleeing Arizona.
Dopers and dealers are fleeing Arizona.
Alternate lifestyle types are fleeing Arizona.
Union thugs are fleeing Arizona.
The America of our youth is returning to Arizona.
Come and join us. Americans are welcome here.
The enemy within.
These guys think they can keep up the assault on real Americans without consequence.
Time of reckoning is drawing near.
The Justice Department isn't always going to be run by Holder.
It sounds like the AFL-CIO thugs want The One to expel states from the Union. They're sure he can find the power somewhere.
While he's at it, maybe this would be a good testing ground for his "heavily armed civilian defense force" as he pulls out the Border Patrol, FBI, ICE, TSA, and all those other federal agencies. They'd avoid the border, because there's no real problem with the border, except for Arizonans.
The Brown Shirts would be able to continue collecting taxes after the IRS is pulled out since they are, after all, heavily armed. They just need representation by the AFL-CIO and they'll be ready to roll.
Not expel. Intervene.
Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Back in 1964, black civil rights leaders asked Lyndon Johnson to invoke Article IV, Section 4 to execute a federal military takeover of the southern states due to the semi-official state terrorism of black folks run by the Klan. (It was hard to tell where local law enforcement ended and the Klan began in much of the South.) With a presidential election just months away, Johnson decided not to open that can of worms. He told the civil rights leaders the Constitution didn't give him that authority, even though it did.
The double-edged sword in Article IV, Section 4 is "shall protect each of them against invasion," which is exactly what is happening, although in this case the invasion is endorsed by both parties in DC for different reasons. It might be tempting for Obama to invoke Article IV, Section 4 against Arizona, but those words would blow up in his face if he tried.
Oh yea, its time for the 40 percent of the union members that lean conservative to cut themselves loose from the AFL-CIO.
Will Arizona residents be able to cut their Federal income tax payments proportionally to the lack of Federal support?
AFL-CIO: Federal Government Must Cut Ties with Sharia Law Enforcement
The AFL-CIO long ago cut ties with the truth, the facts, and reality.
AFL-CIO, ACLU, La Raza, Democrats and all others who are against Arizona’s law... Exactly how is this law racist? Which race is being profiled? Specifically what civil right is being violated?
I have asked these questions numerous times and haven’t gotten an answer yet, with one exception...
One guys says “the Hispanic race,” which he then explained to me were the “non-white people.” This man is so ignorant he thinks “Hispanic” is a race, and that there are no white Hispanics.
I just scheduled a vacation at Camelback resort, Scottsdale Arizone......I figure that with no Democrats there, tee times should be readily available...,,,4 people, probably spending 5,000 dollars or so. Some people never wake ut, we were going to California until I vetoed that trip.
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