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Feds to File Lawsuit Over Arizona Immigration Law
Townhall ^ | Bob Christie

Posted on 07/06/2010 9:38:06 AM PDT by Anita1

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed the law in April, and it was set to go into effect July 29. The lawsuit could delay implementation of the law. The U.S. Justice Department is filing a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and state over the nation's toughest immigration crackdown.

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KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; illegals; immigration; obama; repeat
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The lawsuit will argue that Arizona's new measure requiring state and local police to question and possibly arrest illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws, like traffic stops, usurps federal authority. ~ "As other states and localities go their own ways, we face the prospect that different rules for immigration will apply in different parts of the country," Obama said. "A patchwork of local immigration rules where we all know one clear national standard is needed."
1 posted on 07/06/2010 9:38:13 AM PDT by Anita1
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2 posted on 07/06/2010 9:40:06 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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“The law makes it a state crime for legal immigrants to not carry their immigration documents and bans day laborers and people who seek their services from blocking traffic on streets.

The law also prohibits government agencies from having policies that restrict the enforcement of federal immigration law and lets Arizonans file lawsuits against agencies that hinder immigration enforcement.”


3 posted on 07/06/2010 9:40:21 AM PDT by Anita1 ("Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.")
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So how much will Zero spend waging this lawsuit battle? Those same dollars could go to sending National Guard to the border.


4 posted on 07/06/2010 9:41:48 AM PDT by BAW (Arizona.got it right.)
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To: Anita1

Muehler v. Mena shoots the Feds down in flames.


5 posted on 07/06/2010 9:42:18 AM PDT by stylin19a (Never buy a putter until you first get a chance to throw it)
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To: Anita1

DOJ has time to do this but fails to protect white voters in the New Black Panther voter intimidation case, details at
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/06/ex-official-accuses-justice-department-racial-bias-black-panther-case/


6 posted on 07/06/2010 9:42:43 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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I thought this was old news. Obama and his henchmen have been promising litigation since Day 1.

“’As other states and localities go their own ways, we face the prospect that different rules for immigration will apply in different parts of the country,’ Obama said.”

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Utter bullshit. The law in Arizona is virtually identical to the federal law. Since Obama won’t enforce the laws, the states have to do so, and this is how it should be done. Screw the feds. While they piss around, states like Arizona are being overrun with illegals. Those states have to protect themselves; they can’t wait for the feds to do it for them.


7 posted on 07/06/2010 9:44:32 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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As Commander-in-Chief - isn’t he sworn to protect our borders - and Yet look at what he has done about Illegal immigration and the oil spill - And even the national terrorist threat in Dec. ~ NOTHING!

To me - those are grounds for Treason!


8 posted on 07/06/2010 9:45:49 AM PDT by Anita1 ("Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.")
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This is what the article says:

“Associated Press by a Justice Department official with knowledge of the plans . . . didn’t want to be identified before

** a public announcement planned for Later Tuesday.”


9 posted on 07/06/2010 9:50:11 AM PDT by Anita1 ("Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.")
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He says Americas borders are too vast to secure. Russia and China don't seem to have a problem.
10 posted on 07/06/2010 9:53:29 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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http://michellemalkin.com/2010/07/06/doj-vs-arizona-the-battle-over-preemption/

Michelle has good coverage.


11 posted on 07/06/2010 9:55:52 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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TYRANNY: We are so close!

(1) a government wherein the RIGHTS and Liberties of the people are violated at will by those in power, and where the people possess no effective remedy to hold the transgressors accountable. ...

# dictatorship: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
# absolutism: dominance through threat of punishment and violence

# In modern usage, the word “tyrant” carries connotations of a harsh and cruel ruler who places his or her own interests or the interests of a small oligarchy over the best interests of the general population, which the tyrant governs or controls. ...


12 posted on 07/06/2010 9:59:44 AM PDT by Chaos
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I find it funny that people focus on the southern border as an open border. I used to mountain bike in upstate NY a lot in the past few years and many times I would ride along the border for dozens of miles where there isn’t so much as even a fence.


13 posted on 07/06/2010 10:04:48 AM PDT by BigGaloot
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The U.S. Justice Department is filing a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's new law

And where is the US Justice Department's lawsuit to throw out Obamacare on Constitutionality grounds? How about the supression of his birth certificate because the citizenry doesn't have a "compelling interest" to verify their president is elligible for the office he holds?

14 posted on 07/06/2010 10:05:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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It's those pesky few extra states that really muck things up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Tu3kR77NE

15 posted on 07/06/2010 10:08:15 AM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: fatnotlazy

In addition, Missouri and Virginia have been enforcing immigration laws identical to Arizona’s law for the last 3-5 years with not a peep from Zero.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-45621-Phoenix-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m7d5-Missouri-has-its-own-immigration-SB-1070-but-so-does-Virginia


16 posted on 07/06/2010 10:08:55 AM PDT by GilGil
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To: DJ MacWoW

Because people don’t have Right there and Entitlement program.


17 posted on 07/06/2010 10:14:54 AM PDT by Libertynotfree
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To: Anita1

lawsuit against a state which enforces the law, while dropping charges against black racists holding sticks outside a voting booth

nah this admin and obama are not corrupt or have an agenda do they

ARF

maybe the GOP could actually get some balls and mention this


18 posted on 07/06/2010 10:16:19 AM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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The problem is not as he says ,”A patchwork of local immigration rules where we all know one clear national standard is needed.”, but in fact it is because Arizona will actually apply the law they passed.

I prefer any, statewide patchwork of, laws that are enforced over 1000 perfectly scripted Fed. laws that are simply ignored for political purposes.

The thing that is disturbing is Obama will give illegals amnesty and Pubs. will do nothing to stop it because they don’t want to look prejudiced, or maybe they agree with it.


19 posted on 07/06/2010 10:19:21 AM PDT by badad (How long do we suffer this fool.)
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That’ nice... Were there millions of non-citizens pouring across the border there?


20 posted on 07/06/2010 10:20:33 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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