This is really chutzpa: soetoro sues AZ for enacting a law which he, as President, is sworn to uphold but doesn´t, which could have him impeached, but doesn´t since the criminal Congress gives him a pass on having their own prerogatives stolen.
God help us.
The federal government now has the “right” not to enforce its own laws? Then why have a congress? Why even enact laws? Jim Madison is spinning in his grave.
Can Arizona bring a counter suit for the money it has spent on illegal aliens because the federal government hasn’t enforced the immigration laws? I think that all 50 states could get into a class action suit on this. And how about bringing charges against the executive branch for not enforcing the constitutionally passed laws.
Sure ..... when black is white and day is night.
The Federal government with possibly one exception for patents held by the government does not have rights!
The federal government has duties and obligations to the citizens of the United States. Nothing more and nothing less.
Obama is a miserable failure.
This has nothing to do with the enforcement of immigration law. Obama knows that there is plenty of case law that gives states the right to enforce federal law, and that there’s zero chance that the Feds will win on this. And they know the racial profiling argument is BS too.
Why then did they file the suit if, as I claim, they know they will lose?
Because there’s an election coming up, and they’re behind the 8-ball. The economy and other issues have caused the level of Hispanic support for Obama to drop by about 20% since his election. But since this lawsuit was filed - it’s gone back up 3%.
This lawsuit is a political maneuver designed to elevate Obama in polls and by extension, any Democrat Congressional candidates he endorses. Obama knows the majority of the country supports the law but he only cares about regaining Hispanic voter support in time to keep Harry Reid and other influential Dems in power in 2010.
So what happens if the Feds succeed with their lawsuit? When we’re told we have no options but to bend over and enjoy the invasion?
http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/az-complaint.pdf
This is amazing - the government’s complaint appears to be a combination of
a) We’re too busy catching terrorists
&
b) Congress assigned the DHS,DOJ and DOS the task of enforcing immigration laws, but they really don’t have to.
An interesting point might be that it seems to want to make State law subserviant not to Federal law, but to Federal policy.
Since policy can change on a whim, no State law, even those fully in agreement with Federal law, could be secure.
By the reasoning of the DOJ, local officers should not be arresting bank robbers since banks are the perview of the FBI. Also, they wouldn’t be used to fight terrorism, interstate theft etc. The DOJ really should be careful there.
Serious question. There is no field preemption or conflict preemption here. What is the government’s constitutional argument?
What breathtaking hypocrites progressives are!
Democrats have been:
1. Threatened by the cartel and are caving in
2. Given some quid pro quo by the cartel and are reluctant to go after it
Bottom line - IMO - keep the focus on “illegal” in the immigration issue. (those libs love to use smoke & mirrors to cloud the real issue). Remind our politicians that granting amnesty is nothing more than sanctioning illegal behavior. Granting them a “free” entry card does not guarantee any allegiance to the USofA.
watch the preliminary injunction hearing.
a test for the preliminary injunction is a high degree of prevailing on the merits.
I a preliminary is granted, the fix is in.