Posted on 01/13/2006 10:48:58 AM PST by Bob Haran
In today's Arizona Republic,(Activists seek day-labor work center, January 13,2006), I came across this quite by Steven Montoya, a civil rights lawyer in Phoenix, regarding day laborers' soliciting employment on public sidewalks in Phoenix.
"You have a constitutional right to look for a job whether you're here legally or not, but that doesn't mean you can break the law."
I'm not a lawyer but if hiring illegal immigrants is illegal and if an illegal immigrant solicits employment, wouldn't that make the illegal immigrant an accessory to the crime of hiring illegal immigrants and breaking the law?
Should not the soliciting of, illegal employment, be governed by the same principle as, soliciting the purchase of illegal narcotics, which is illegal.
If Mr. Montoya's statement is correct, maybe we need legislation making the soliciting of illegal employment a crime, or do people in our country illegally have a constitutional right to break our laws?
Bob Haran, Phoenix, AZ, www.Bob-Haran.info
I'm still stuck on the "constitutional right" part.
I'd like to see that lawyer back that up.
Ya, that's in the constitution right next to the clause that says abortion is a consitutional right but gun ownership isn't. Liberals constantly degrade constitutional rights with knee-jerk declarations that everyone's right to do anything they agree with is a protected right.
More proof that a civil rights lawyer doesn't know what's in the Constitution...or is there a chapter and verse for this one? Is it in the emanations of the penumbra?
Well I do have some dog doo on my lawn that needs to be scooped. I can't find any citizens willing to do it, so send them over.
"You have a constitutional right to look for a job whether you're here legally or not"
Nah! If a person is an illegal which is against the law, how does our constitution provide any rights to law breakers and people who shouldn't be here in the first place? This lawyer is waaayyyy off the mark.
Ditto
Illegal aliens, who are here illegally, have a constitutional right to work, but not to break the law? Did I understand that correctly?
Please do not emanate into the penumbra.
If it is not a power enumerated to the federal government and not reserved for the states, it is a right of the people.
So he is right. Just like I have a constitutional right to hop around on 1 foot down main street with a condoms on my hands while singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
But, for example, you do not have the right to trespass inside a shopping mall after hours, so you can't assert a right to live in a cardboard box there at night, nor to sing, nor to hop, nor anything at all, because it's "closed." The United States of America is closed to illegal aliens, all the time.
Well he is right until you realize they are illegal aliens already breaking the law. They have absolutely no constitutional protection except for the rights given to everyone from our Creator.
Legal immigrants do.
Illegal immigrants have a right to be clubbed mercilessly, cuffed, then transported back over the border.
This idiot should be disbarred for such statements.
They have a right to sing the blues..They have a right to go home..
It would be helpful.
Word would spread that illegal immigration is painful.
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