Posted on 02/19/2024 8:30:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Republican Reps. Chip Roy (Texas) and Dan Bishop (N.C.) introduced the Standing Up to the Executive Branch for Immigration Enforcement Act, or “SUE for Immigration Enforcement Act,” on Wednesday.
The six-page bill is being marked up by the House Judiciary Committee.
Incidentally, "marked up" is the process by which a U.S. congressional committee debates, amends, and rewrites proposed legislation.
So the bill was filed in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last July that held that Texas and Louisiana did not have standing to challenge a policy implemented by embattled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — I know: Try to control your shock and amazement — that virtually ended deportations of illegal aliens who crossed the U.S. border.
Here's more:
[The] bill would give state attorneys general standing to sue the Secretary of Homeland Security when the federal government refuses to enforce federal immigration law. It would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow attorneys general to sue when the federal government does not follow existing law and detain and remove illegal foreign nationals in their states.
It includes language regarding a state or resident being harmed by federal policies, including defining harm to include financial costs exceeding $100. It also would direct the courts to advance on the docket and expedite the disposition of a civil action.
It takes the opposite approach of a Senate Democrat bill, championed by Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, which would have stripped states’ ability to sue. The bill, which Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, said the House would not even consider, would have prevented judges in federal courts in any state from ruling on lawsuits filed by states over Biden administration border policies.
Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden, and James Lankford were unavailable for comment.
Roy stressed the importance of the bill, saying:
[The Biden administration] has consistently ignored the laws on the books that require operational control of our border in pursuit of an open-borders agenda, creating the invasion we have watched for years at our southern border.
Roy added that it's critical that Congress “re-affirm the states' constitutional ability to defend their own borders." Amen-squared.
Bishop was spot on, as well, saying Biden and Mayorkas "are pursuing a disastrous open borders policy at any cost, including repeatedly and flagrantly violating federal immigration law,” and “relentless[ly] pursu[ing] lawlessness, chaos, and destruction.”
Is there any doubt?
The serial-lying twins threw the southern border wide open from the moment Biden assumed the presidency. While they continue to lie about the border being "secure," millions upon millions of illegal aliens — from all over the world — continue to stroll into the country.
"Congress must support the states," Bishop said, “as they stand in the breach in their defense of our sovereignty.”
Precisely. Meanwhile, Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas stand as an existential threat to the security of the United States.
If the "SUE" bill passes in the House it will likely die a sudden death in the Democrat-controlled Senate, which proves, yet again, that Joe Biden and the Democrats are much more interested in what they assume will benefit them in the ballot box — the continued importation of illegal aliens — than with the safety of American citizens.
As said at the top, "Hell yeah — and it's past time that it happens."
And it's also past time to force Senate Democrats to go on the record and reject the rights of states to protect their citizens from Joe Biden's illegal alien invasion.
Related:
Mayorkas Says America Needs MORE Illegal Aliens in Softball Interview—'Wouldn't It Be More Orderly?'
We need to get this bill passed.
So how does it get passed in the senate and get BiteMe to sign it? Are they planning to cut off all current funding to the executive to make the demo-commies squeal and play ball? I seriously doubt it.
So we will sue ourselves?...Peter paying paul after borrowing it from Mary?
Dems already have had this one figured out for decades. They’ll do it anyway, and then one or more of the following will happen.
1. They will be found guilty and then pay the judgement from the public fisc - then they will just keep doing it because hey, it’s not their own money. They’ve done this before, usually at the state or city level.
2. Some of their own allied states will sue and win, and then use the wealth transferred from the Feds to do whatever they want. They did this already with the Sierra Club suing the EPA when both were controlled by Dems and similar scams - repeatedly. They will actually make sure they continue the practice they’re being sued for as it’s a great way to transfer money.
3. Any valid claims will be dragged out through the courts for decades and lawfare will be conducted against the suing parties. Again, they have no personal incentive to stop the invasion and plenty of incentive to NOT do so.
This is a useless bill that will end up enriching the Dems. A better idea would be to have a bill that would allow states to sue the Feds and have the named parties removed from office for dereliction of Constitutional duty to defend them against invasion.
End welfare. That would send 30% of them home. It happened a hundred years ago.
Why?
After you’ve sued them, THEN what? Make the feds pay you some money??
(I’m at a loss whether to post the image of the heads being throw back in laughter or the That’s the Ticket guy.)
We’ll just print more.
New Bill Would Give States the Legislative ability (Right) to Sue Federal. >>>> States don’t have or get rights. Rights are peoples and given by God. States only have delegated powers allowed to them by the people.
Getting rid of welfare will not stop this kind of scam.
What’s the problem?
Two snipers killed Americans in three states. How much chaos could a few terrorists cause?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._sniper_attacks
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Very Funny. You do realize that such a bill would have to pass both the Senate and Biden. Neither of which would allow it.
Trump is not a chip Roy fan, so I am guessing this is going no where.
Feds do not care That option would give states access to funds for this fiasco in perpetuity. We still lose
It’s not a monetary suit. It would be more like “keep your filthy hands out of my state and allow us to do our job.”
And New York, illinois, California and Massachusetts will be first in line to sue. Watch!
In November 2009, Muhammad was executed by lethal injection.
OK... I gotta speak up yet again...
Why do these so called Republicans keep on doing crap that is clearly unconditional?
The feds control the borders, that is one of the few powers granted to it in that pesky constitution thingy.
Why are they not developing work around, like the democommies do for things that they don’t like?
Example, Texas puts up a wall ON FEDERAL LAND!!!
Of course the courts are going to order it removed.
Why not buy land BEHIND federal land and put your wall up there?
There are options... There are solutions.
Why not exercise them?
Answer, can’t buy votes with a solution, and the bush league chamber of commerce worshipping republiCAN’Ts WANT the illegals here.
Unconstitutional
Autocorrect
“[The] bill would give state attorneys general standing to sue the Secretary of Homeland Security when the federal government refuses to enforce federal immigration law.”
“”[The] bill would give state attorneys general standing to sue the Secretary of Homeland Security “personally” when the federal government refuses to enforce federal immigration law.”
I’m tired of everyone suing the government and it is taxpayer dollars that they get. Hold the Secretaries and all elected officials or Executive Branch appointees personally accountable. Base it on the laws created by the Constitution.
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