This fight is NOT over until we win: Bolton’s ruling on SB 1070 is just a setback a not defeat

Abraham Lincoln said, “To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.” I’ve looked around, Abe and I don’t see many cowards.

As frustrating as this idiot Democrat judge’s ruling is we, the American patriots of today, must turn to our rule of law to restore us to our natural state of freedom. We have to shake off the damage from Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling because we have much work to do and no time for resting if we are to save our country.

We are the heirs to the greatness of America and the only hope for restoring Constitutional government. Our belief in the greatness of America can and will break the chains of Marxism Obama and his Democrats have wrapped around us.

The potent legal weapon we have is the Tenth Amendment, and a showdown on its power is coming and now unavoidable. We have no intention of standing by and letting this ruling go unchallenged. We can’t let this insult from an activist judge who sides with LaRaza over American citizens and the government of Arizona go unchallenged, and we won’t.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” These are the twenty eight words that will save our nation.

Those who have followed the progress of the illegal alien invasion are familiar with THAT picture. THAT picture is the one of the snarling illegal alien swine giving us the finger and grabbing his crotch to taunt us at an “immigrants’ rights” rally. When you see it don’t see that creep’s face, see a smiling Obama and laughing Nancy Pelosi giving us the finger because…

The Federalist No. 45 James Madison
Alleged Danger From the Powers of the Union to the State Governments Considered
Independent Journal Saturday, January 26, 1788

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security. As the former periods will probably bear a small proportion to the latter, the State governments will here enjoy another advantage over the federal government. The more adequate, indeed, the federal powers may be rendered to the national defense, the less frequent will be those scenes of danger which might favor their ascendancy over the governments of the particular States.

“On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform
to the probable one in which it was passed.” —Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823

Let us harken back to

The Federalist No. 11
The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy
Independent Journal
Saturday, November 24, 1787
[Alexander Hamilton]

An unrestrained intercourse between the States themselves will advance the trade of each by an interchange of their respective productions, not only for the supply of reciprocal wants at home, but for exportation to foreign markets. The veins of commerce in every part will be replenished, and will acquire additional motion and vigor from a free circulation of the commodities of every part. Commercial enterprise will have much greater scope, from the diversity in the productions of different States. When the staple of one fails from a bad harvest or unproductive crop, it can call to its aid the staple of another. The variety, not less than the value, of products for exportation contributes to the activity of foreign commerce. It can be conducted upon much better terms with a large number of materials of a given value than with a small number of materials of the same value; arising from the competitions of trade and from the fluctations of markets. Particular articles may be in great demand at certain periods, and unsalable at others; but if there be a variety of articles, it can scarcely happen that they should all be at one time in the latter predicament, and on this account the operations of the merchant would be less liable to any considerable obstruction or stagnation. The speculative trader will at once perceive the force of these observations, and will acknowledge that the aggregate balance of the commerce of the United States would bid fair to be much more favorable than that of the thirteen States without union or with partial unions.

Commerce was for goods, NOT services.
Healthcare is a service

It would be sweet irony if it was decided by SCOTUS on a 5-2 vote because Sotomayor and Kagan were thrown out after being found to have been nominated by a president who was forbidden by the 20th Amendment from having the presidential powers - including the power to nominate SCOTUS justices.

Arizona could kill 2 birds with one stone. They dropped their bill requiring candidates to prove their eligibility before being placed on the ballot, choosing to focus on the illegal invasion of their land instead. But in court before SCOTUS they can address both issues at once - the invasion of Arizona by illegals AND the invasion of the White House by an ineligible POTUS.

It’s all about the same thing - whether law enforcement can REQUIRE documentation to be shown so that the law can be enforced, or whether criminals can hide behind race or supposed confidentiality regarding whether they can lawfully have what they claim.

Bolton ruled that Arizona was putting an undue burden on the Federal government. Arizona has to show that the "undue burden" is of the Federal government's own design as defined in the US Federal Code.

TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part IV > § 1226 (Apprehension and detention of aliens) says:

(d) Identification of criminal aliens
(1) The Attorney General shall devise and implement a system—
(A) to make available, daily (on a 24-hour basis), to Federal, State, and local authorities the investigative resources of the Service to determine whether individuals arrested by such authorities for aggravated felonies are aliens;

(B) to designate and train officers and employees of the Service to serve as a liaison to Federal, State, and local law enforcement and correctional agencies and courts with respect to the arrest, conviction, and release of any alien charged with an aggravated felony; and

(C) which uses computer resources to maintain a current record of aliens who have been convicted of an aggravated felony, and indicates those who have been removed.

(2) The record under paragraph (1)(C) shall be made available—
(A) to inspectors at ports of entry and to border patrol agents at sector headquarters for purposes of immediate identification of any alien who was previously ordered removed and is seeking to reenter the United States, and

(B) to officials of the Department of State for use in its automated visa lookout system.

(3) Upon the request of the governor or chief executive officer of any State, the Service shall provide assistance to State courts in the identification of aliens unlawfully present in the United States pending criminal prosecution.

TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part VIII > § 1324(c) (Bringing in and harboring certain aliens) says:

c) Authority to arrest
No officer or person shall have authority to make any arrests for a violation of any provision of this section except officers and employees of the Service designated by the Attorney General, either individually or as a member of a class, and all other officers whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws.

TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part V > § 1252c

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§ 1252c. Authorizing State and local law enforcement officials to arrest and detain certain illegal aliens

How Current is This?

(a) In general

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the extent permitted by relevant State and local law, State and local law enforcement officials are authorized to arrest and detain an individual who—

(1) is an alien illegally present in the United States; and

(2) has previously been convicted of a felony in the United States and deported or left the United States after such conviction,

but only after the State or local law enforcement officials obtain appropriate confirmation from the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the status of such individual and only for such period of time as may be required for the Service to take the individual into Federal custody for purposes of deporting or removing the alien from the United States.

(b) Cooperation

The Attorney General shall cooperate with the States to assure that information in the control of the Attorney General, including information in the National Crime Information Center, that would assist State and local law enforcement officials in carrying out duties under subsection (a) of this section is made available to such officials.

-PJ

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