Posted on 02/21/2008 2:31:31 PM PST by Checkers
It's getting ugly out there for illegal immigrants. States and cities are cracking down with harsh new ordinances, and the courts are upholding them. Not only are deportations at record highs, but immigrants are being detained at places previously understood to be off-limits, such as schools. The debate about illegal immigration, labor, social justice and international trade has devolved into open season on illegal immigrants.
Arizona penalizes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, suspending their business license for 10 days for the first offense, revoking it permanently for the second. Valley Park in Missouri fines businesses that hire illegal immigrants. Oklahoma not only forbids their hiring and bars them from receiving tax-supported services -- except healthcare -- it also makes it a felony for anyone to transport, shelter or conceal illegal immigrants.
It's nothing new for states and municipalities to try to regulate immigration. California pioneered that trail in 1994 with the passage of Proposition 187, which sought to discourage illegal immigration by denying noncitizens a range of public services. Last year, Hazleton, Pa., caught the nation's attention when it tried to criminalize landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and deny business permits to companies that hire them. Until recently, however, the courts stood as a bulwark against this spate of angry -- and often unconstitutional -- ordinances, ruling that immigration is federal territory.
Not anymore. In Arizona, Missouri and Oklahoma, business groups or immigration advocates sued to block the new laws, and in each case federal judges upheld them. The Oklahoma ruling is particularly pernicious. With the spirit of Dred Scott hovering over his pen, Judge James H. Payne wrote that illegal immigrants do not have the right to sue: "An illegal alien, in willful violation of federal immigration law, is without standing to challenge the constitutionality of a
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I don't see the problem.
I’m not going to get into specifics, but that piece has me rolling with laughter. Anyone who reads it will know what I’m talking about.
I would agree to keep 1000 illegals here if we could deport everyone associated with the LA TIMES. That would be a good deal.
It’s illegal to impersonate an illegal alien.
I often had that reaction to LA Times editorials when I lived in LA.
The rule of law is such a bummer, man... </s>
Many immigrant families are blended, made up of legal immigrants, illegal ones and U.S.-
Well, UNBLEND them and get illegals out of here!
YEP
What do they mean “Not going anywhere”????
They’re going back to Mexico where they belong.
The L.A. Times has been carrying the illegals luggage for a long time now. They go into “poor illegal mode” in all their editorials on the subject.
Deportation to those who sneaked in (first offense). “General Population” for second offense and those who smuggle, harbor and hire them.
Sentence one - “illegal immigrants” morphs into sentence three - “immigrants”
Paragraph three, sentences one and four- “immigration” mixes in with other sentences with the all-important “illegal”.
Does the LA Times have doors and locks on their property? Do they like customers to pay up? Then why don’t they understand “illegal”?
That's because you're not a hate-America-at-all-costs loony leftist like the author of that tripe.
"It's getting ugly out there for burglars. More and more homeowners are installing security devices. Fences and walls are rising where once there was open access to homeowners' lawns. States and localities are passing tough, some would say harsh, new laws to punish burglars even more. Shockingly, a new form of vigilante violence is arising as more and more homeowners are arming themselves. These are the new realities many burglars face when seeking a fairer distribution of wealth in our tragically stratified society......"
You have nailed the L.A. Times as they continue to have layoffs and loose circulation.
Bull. Illegals may pay in about $440 million in various taxes, but they suck out over $11 BILLION a year from federal coffers, not counting the cost of identity theft and other crimes they commit.
Bullying them into leaving is counterproductive and downright mean.
Yeah, and I'm sure the moron who wrote this drek thinks it's "counterproductive" and "mean" to go after robbers, rapists and murderers, too.
Caught the first lie. Legal aliens may be noncitizens, but other than the right to vote, they have access to the same benefits as citizens.
LOL! Your modifications were just what I was thinking.
Liberals are so cute when they are whining and frothing (their usual state).
‘angry...ordinances’ Too funny!
‘satisfy the popular hunger for instantaneous immigration reform’. Please stop, you’re killing me!
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Judge Payne's logic is so full of common sense that he should be on the short list for the next SCOTUS vacancy. Abe Lincoln used to tell the story of a kid who murdered his parents in the home by setting it on fire and then threw himself at the mercy of the court because he was a homeless orphan.
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