Posted on 01/27/2010 3:01:24 PM PST by AuntB
Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones was in federal court Tuesday, facing charges he violated an illegal immigrant's constitutional rights.
Our partners at the Journal News report the charges stem from a lawsuit filed after a 2007 incident when Luis Rodriguez and others were rounded up at a construction site on Port Union Road by Butler County deputies and a former immigration specialist hired by Jones, according to reports.
Officials said they were at the site to talk to a supervisor about undocumented workers, but while there Rodriguez and others were interrogated and asked to provide identification, said Rodriguez's attorney, Al Gerhardstein. Gerhardstein said his client, who had lived in Butler County for 11 years, was arrested and charged with providing a false identification and was deported to Mexico, though he was later acquitted of the charge.
Rodriguez' children, including two born in the United States, returned to Mexico, too, to keep the family together.
The court will decide if Jones authorized deputies and the former ICE agent to arrest Rodriguez and whether he had the right to do so, according to reports. Gerhardstein contends that Jones doesn't have that authority and that Rodriguez's fourth and fourteenth amendment rights were violated. The fourth amendment guards against unreasonable search and seizure, and the 14th amendment guarantees the right to due process and equal protection to all people within the U.S.
Rodriguez is seeking damages and also trying to establish the principle that there aren't any exceptions to the Fourth or 14th amendments.
A judge will decide in the next few weeks whether the lawsuit can continue.
It is disgusting that we have politicians, media, and special interest groups who value the rights of Illegal Aliens over the rights of American citizens.
Illegal Aliens need to be rounded up and DEPORTED....anything short of this borders on treason.
Why do they always leave that word out of these stories.
Thought that this would be another Arpaio story.
“Rounding them up” will cost more than giving them say enticing them to leave.
I hope we can come up with a clever way to compel self deportation.
Maybe offer a free Jeep Wrangler and 50 grand cash to leave,
Um..... WHAT?
It's not that difficult, the illegals aren't stupid.
Begin with monthly high profile raids. Escalate to weekly high profile raids.
After awhile, for every illegal deported by the raid scores will self-deport.
How come I have to show an ID?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_District_Court_of_Nevada
"Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country."
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