Posted on 07/06/2010 11:42:15 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PHOENIX (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and the state over the nation's toughest immigration crackdown.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix argues that Arizona's law requiring state and local police to question and possibly arrest illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic violations usurps federal authority.
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Gov Brewer...tell’em to stick it!
Impeach Obama!
I’d ask “whose side is 0bama on” but we know the answer to that already.
Git yer popcorn..
Won’t do the required duty,
and refuses to allow anyone else to do it.
Sounds like office politics.
FUBO!!
Rebellion is Brewering!!
Obama sues to protect the 8-10 million Democratic votes in 2012 or 2016.
This guy is a treasonous jackal.
And after all his incendiary talke he bases the lawsuit on Federal premption. No counts claiming discrimination or profiling. They went with a very weak claim because it is all they had. I bet Obama loses this one at all three levels.
This settles it. A November landslide for Repubs.
AZ is not setting immigration policy. They are questioning and arresting people who have broken US laws. Should they stand back and wait for the feds to show up and deal with bank robbers, kidnappers or others who have violated federal laws?
The Governor of Arizona should sue the President for not full filling his prime directive.......protecting the United States from invasion. She has stated, and rightly so, the Federal Government is not protecting our countries borders so the State has to do it. The same thing would happen if the police of Tucson did not protect its citizens. The State would have to step in.
In practice, this attitude puts the concept of 'citizens arrest', 'actions for the public good', 'good Samaritan response in the face of emergency' and many other similar actions to the status of 'illegal' because the frickin' Federal Government didn't (or wouldn't) do it.
Take this whole debacle down and go back to square one is my call.
Ahhh, the future of America...
Arizona county sheriffs are receiving death threats from Mexican drug cartels and our foolish Administration sues and, in effect, offers protection to the individuals threatening death to American citizens. Just incredible.
They don’t have a leg to stand on. What a world where the gov’t is sueing a State for enforcing laws.
Notice that with the left,
the government must NOT do those things which are required of it,
and MUST do those things that are prohibited to it.
Isaiah 5:20 comes to mind.
Wouldn’t you just love to have the judge dismiss the case and say something like “I have a better idea. Why don’t you all spend your time enforcing the law rather than filing silly lawsuits. Case dismissed!”
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