Posted on 08/08/2007 10:01:40 PM PDT by Daralundy
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A national Latino coalition is threatening to challenge Oklahoma's sweeping immigration law before the measure goes into effect on Nov. 1.
The Rev. Miguel Rivera is president of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian eaders. Rivera says the group may challenge the measure in federal court as soon as Oct. 1.
Rivera also says the group's planning an Oct. 1 rally against House Bill 1804 on the steps of the Oklahoma Capitol in Oklahoma City.
Officials say the group's lawsuit will likely argue that the state's law unconstitutionally pre-empts federal immigration law.
Among other things, the state immigration legislation, adopted by the Legislature last spring, creates barriers for undocumented immigrants to receive public benefits and jobs.
How does this group have standing to challenge a State law?
Wouldn’t they have to have a local person serve as the person bringing suit?
A local attorney does the trick.
They keep this crap up and it won't be long before the 'Open Season' signs start showing up.
The local court system needs to tell the A national Latino coalition that this issue is DOA.
Don't like it?
Go home...to what ever 3rd world cesspool that is.
Just go back.
Yes, I always thought that was the point of the legislation.
Another move by the illegals that simply doesn’t make sense...isn’t the point of a democracy that the actual citizens get their voice?
This action by the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian eaders (sic) shows that if the churches want to start playing politics with the big boys, they need to start paying taxes like the rest of us. IMHO.
ping
Please do, and don't forget your Mexican Flags.
Bttt!
Is the Rev. an illegal?
They will fight it tooth and nail.
But WE will fight FOR it, tooth and nail.
They are dwarfed in our shadow by sheer numbers, so they will lose.
Indeed
I think it’s time for the “Aw Geez, not this s**t again” headache guy to make a cameo appearance.
Have the feds ever ENFORCED the laws against political proselyting from the pulpits of minority churches? I recall some threats that never materialized but that's about it.
This is to everyone that reads this and believes the hispanic people should go home. You go there and see what they have to live like. Living on a weekly income that is less than what we make in a day. Dirt floors, outhouses, no electricity, no running water. These are the realities of their situation. It’s not all Cancun down there. The new law that passed doesn’t change much. The illegals have NEVER been able to get public assistance without a social security number and it’s always been Illegal to employ someone without a green card. I am American white as they come but I have been there in my travels and seen and lived as they have too and I don’t blame them one bit for trying to come to the USA and do jobs that nobody else will do for the amount of pay they are offered. So before you open your mouth why don’t you put yourself in someone else’s shoes. I once thought like you but not after living like they did for a month. That’s all it took.
Well guess what! I grew up in the same situation except for the dirt floor. We had an outhouse. So did everyone else that lived around us. For many years we had no electrical hook up. Kerosene lamps, icebox instead of a fridge, the first indoor plumbing I had was when I got married.
Just because I made good in life after leaving home doesn't mean I have to share it with a bunch of illegal invaders. Let them stay in their own country and make something of it. It isn't my responsibility or another taxpayers' to improve their plight.
Now if I seem totally unconcerned about their plight in their own country the you have the right perception. I really don't care! I think that is what a lot of taxpaying citizens is trying to tell people like you. We don't want them here. We don't want to pay to take care of them. We don't want them taking our children's good paying jobs. We don't want to wait in line for medical care that we can pay for while they get their's for free. I didn't encourage them to come here nor will I encourage them to stay. I will not hire one. I will not patronize any business that I know that does hire them. I don't want to be their friend. I don't want to be their neighbor. I do want to them to go back to where they came from and stay there.
Well, at least at one point you were thinking clearly about this matter. But now you seem to have lost your way.
I'll open my mouth anytime I want to to speak out against the illegals invading MY country.
I have no problem with anyone, from any country, wanting to live here, as long as they follow the rules to become a citizen.
And as far as the conditions you describe in Mexico, boo friggin' hoo. Just a thought here, Mr. Bleedin' Heart Liberal, maybe Mexico should change things? Take better care of it's own citizens..? Just a thought.
Oh, and just because they don't does not mean they can enter my country illegally.
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