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Obama Orders DOJ To Challenge Ariz. Immigration Law
Judicial Watch ^ | 4/26/2010

Posted on 04/26/2010 10:53:19 AM PDT by Señor Zorro

Last Updated: Mon, 04/26/2010 - 10:43am

The ink is barely dry on Arizona’s new immigration control law and President Obama has already threatened to take legal action against the measure even though it was adopted from the federal statute that’s rarely enforced.

Amid huge protests and cries of racism from the open-borders movement, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the law (SB1070) that bans “sanctuary city” policies and makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. without proper documentation. Some federal and state lawmakers claim the measure amounts to institutionalized discrimination and abuse that will lead to the arrest of seniors, kids and tourists.

Obama, who tried pressuring Brewer into vetoing the “misguided” law, assures that it threatens civil rights and undermines basic notions of fairness and trust between police and their communities. The commander-in-chief has ordered the Department of Justice to challenge its legality and vows to “closely monitor the situation” and examine the legislation’s civil rights implications.

The law marks an unprecedented effort by a state to take immigration matters into its own hands since immigration offenses are currently violations of federal law that cannot be enforced by local police. But lawmakers in Arizona are fed up with the enormous toll that hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are having on their state as the feds sit idly by and fail to secure the southern border.

When the measure goes into effect later this year illegal aliens will be charged in state court with trespassing and anyone—documented or undocumented—seeking work from a road or sidewalk will also be criminally prosecuted. Drivers who pick up illegal alien day laborers will also be punished and all residents must provide evidence of their legal status in the U.S.

When Brewer signed the law last week she pointed out that the new state crime of willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document was adopted verbatim from the federal statute. Furthermore, it will be implemented in a manner consistent with federal laws regulating immigration, protecting the civil rights of all persons and respecting the privileges and immunities of the United States, the governor said.

“We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act,” Brewer said during a signing ceremony. “But decades of federal inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation.” She added that the new law represents a much-needed tool to solve a crisis the state did not create and the federal government refuses to fix.



TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; bho44; bhodoj; bhofascism; bhotreason; bhotyranny; democratcorruption; democrats; doj; donttreadonme; electionfraud; hey0stfu; illegalimmigration; immigration; liberalfascism; obama; obamabrownshirts; obamavoters; voterfraud
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To: Señor Zorro
...will lead to the arrest of seniors, kids and tourists.

Really? Methinks hombres with MS-13 tattoos will be on top of the list.
21 posted on 04/26/2010 11:09:40 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Señor Zorro

Obama’s just mad because now he can’t campaign in Arizona.


22 posted on 04/26/2010 11:11:15 AM PDT by NV Lawdog (In God I trust; Everybody else keep your hands where I can see them!)
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To: Señor Zorro

Thugonomics... racism... islam... communism... obama has it all!

LLS


23 posted on 04/26/2010 11:12:45 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: Señor Zorro

Arizona needs to tell the DOJ where to go. Just ignore the feds. Maybe the other states will wise up and do the same.

It’s bad enough that we have to feed the American deadbeats - we really don’t need to keep feeding foreign deadbeats as well.


24 posted on 04/26/2010 11:17:33 AM PDT by meyer (It's time...)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

Ping!


25 posted on 04/26/2010 11:18:45 AM PDT by HiJinx (~ Illegal is a Crime, it is not a Race ~)
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To: Señor Zorro

running on a platform of calling the voters a bunch of redneck racists is certainly novel (I think they call it the Murtha Strategy?)


26 posted on 04/26/2010 11:19:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: RobRoy

“Specific facts constituting a reasonable suspicion include...presence in an area known to contain a concentration of illegal aliens.”

That would include presence at a demonstration against the new Arizona law, wouldn’t it?


27 posted on 04/26/2010 11:21:16 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: rovenstinez

good point! WHERE is Aunt Zeituni anyway???lol


28 posted on 04/26/2010 11:27:29 AM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: Señor Zorro
Emperor of Illegal Aliens (one himself, apparently).


I - - Me; an individual; a committee of one.

Pledge - - Dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity.

Allegiance - - My love and my devotion.

To the Flag - - Our standard; Old Glory ; a symbol of Freedom; wherever she waves there is respect, because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts, Freedom is everybody's job.

United - - That means that we have all come together.

States - - Individual communities that have united into forty-eight great states. Forty-eight individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose. All divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose, and that is love for country.

And to the Republic - - Republic--a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people; and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people.

For which it stands One Nation - - One Nation--meaning, so blessed by God.

Indivisible - - Incapable of being divided.

With Liberty - - Which is Freedom; the right of power to live one's own life, without threats, fear, or some sort of retaliation.

And Justice - - The principle, or qualities, of dealing fairly with others.

For All - - For All--which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine.

And now, boys and girls, let me hear you recite the Pledge of Allegiance:

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands; one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country,
and two words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance: Under God.
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer, and that would be eliminated from schools, too?

[by Red Skelton]



29 posted on 04/26/2010 11:28:22 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States Â… shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: Señor Zorro
Obama, who tried pressuring Brewer into vetoing the “misguided” law

Therein is the critical mass. 0bama demanded and Brewer didn't back down... he's not used to that, and it pissed him off.

30 posted on 04/26/2010 11:31:13 AM PDT by ScottinVA (RIP to the country I love...)
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To: Señor Zorro

Wait, lets challenge an Arizona law based on old standing immigration law verses challenging the legitimacy of Obamacare based on no standing law.....ironic, huh?


31 posted on 04/26/2010 11:34:19 AM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked
Wait, lets challenge an Arizona law based on old standing immigration law verses challenging the legitimacy of Obamacare based on no standing law.....ironic, huh?

GREAT, GREAT, GREAT point!!!!!!!!! (Hat's off to ya)

32 posted on 04/26/2010 11:35:26 AM PDT by ScottinVA (RIP to the country I love...)
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To: Señor Zorro
All the Arizona Law did was order all state law enforcement agencies to enforce all laws and it seems that Obama challenging this goes to show that Obama is willing to ignore the law of this land.

Impeach now!

33 posted on 04/26/2010 11:47:28 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: Señor Zorro

THE DEMS AND OBAMA ARE FREAKING OUT BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT to lose even more votes!


34 posted on 04/26/2010 12:10:29 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: RobRoy
Federal Immigration and Nationality Act Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)

"State and local law enforcement officials have the general power to investigate and arrest violators of federal immigration statutes without prior INS knowledge or approval, as long as they are authorized to do so by state law."

BOOYAH!

35 posted on 04/26/2010 12:12:00 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: ScottinVA

It has to be hard on Obama every time someone stands up and tells him to go to he!!.


36 posted on 04/26/2010 12:13:58 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Diogenesis
Oh please...while I vomit.... Q: To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?

PALIN: I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country."

Don't EVEN imply that Sarah Palin is against "path to citizenship" AMNESTY. Don't even!!!! When it comes to this NATIONAL SECURITY issue, she is NO different than Bush or McCain!!! She's made it very clear. She is not FOR us, she is AGAINST us.
37 posted on 04/26/2010 12:15:42 PM PDT by Kimberly GG ("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote!)
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To: Señor Zorro

If the Arizona law is specifically allowed by the federal law, then 0bama is in for a very nice defeat.

:-)


38 posted on 04/26/2010 12:18:29 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: Señor Zorro

Stand Strong Arizona!


39 posted on 04/26/2010 12:21:05 PM PDT by Danae (Don't like the Constitution, try living in a country with out one.)
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To: fatnotlazy

The only thing he cares about regarding the constitution is BREAKING it.


40 posted on 04/26/2010 12:22:01 PM PDT by Danae (Don't like the Constitution, try living in a country with out one.)
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