Posted on 07/25/2010 12:04:41 PM PDT by John Semmens
In its lawsuit against the State of Arizona, Obama Administration Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler argued that the State’s newly enacted law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration is “not only an infringement on federal prerogative, but fundamentally a useless undertaking.”
“Immigration is a federal issue,” Kneedler said. “The federal government’s interest overrides that of any and every state in the union. Right now, the federal government doesn’t have the resources to contend with illegal entry across our nation’s borders. Even if the Arizona law were well intended—a point we are not conceding at this time—any illegal immigrants they turn over to federal authorities would just have to be released anyway.”
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, seeking clarification asked “are you saying that a person discovered to be in this country illegally by Arizona police during a traffic stop or a burglary, say, and turned over to federal authorities would be let go because the federal government lacks the resources to deal with him?”
“Yes,” Kneedler replied. “So, the State arresting them would just be a big waste of time for all parties.”
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Why not just say - “We Surrender!”.
The federal goverment is useless!
government
Useless? Just look at the numbers of criminals leaving Arizona before it is even implemented and you’ll see that it is far from useless.
Mr Obama is evil.
His entire staff and the minions that do his bidding are as well.
So no one can enforce a fed law if the feds don’t have the resources to do it themselves. Lovely logic.
If the feds won’t enforce the law and stop Arizona from enforcing the law that only leaves one option!
For being so fundamentally useless it sure has wee-wee'd up the Obama administration.
Just keep the illegals in Tent City indefinitely and make them clean up the mess that their fellow illegals made of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona!
That will scare the remaining illegals into leaving Arizona, and hopefully retuning to Mexico. And it might induce the Feds into processing the captured illegals and deporting or prosecuting them.
The great majority of the American people have less and less sympathy for illegals, and for Democrats who collude with them and call for “amnesty”. Democrats around the country will lose elections based on this issue, as well as obamacare, the oil spill, the ballooning deficit, and obama’s obsessive golfing while “Rome burns”.
Bank robbery is a federal crime so I guess the banks are really gonna be sitting ducks in Az. I’m sure the state will be able to kick illegals out of Az and into Cali and Nevada, that should really help.
To obamabots: If it’s useless...then why the lawsuit?
Feds = Tits on a boar hog. And look like ‘em too.
They really don't want a lot of people to notice how useless they have become, because, once you get to a certain critical mass, all that power they have been grabbing goes bye-bye.
They would have to pull out their guns, and they might find that they got nobody on their side to shoot them. See how that worked out for Nicolae Ceausescu, for instance.
1. A federal government that argues against its own laws authorizing state law enforcement. 2. Claims it lacks the resources to deal with illegal aliens. 3. Yet will spend millions to litigate against a “useless” law.
Keep Kneedler talking and he’ll end up a lawyer for the defense.
Ping!
More semi-news/semi-satire from AZ Conservative...
I wonder how fast the government would send troops in if Arizona claimed that they didn’t have the resourses to prosecute anyone for defending themselves against any illegal alien in this country???
If the Feds say they refuse to take them and would release them (in print), seems the states have every right to send them home by bus, crate or however they wish themselves.
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