Thursday, July 29, 2010

 

Blow to Arizona immigration law


From The Hindu

In a serious setback to the state of Arizona, the unprecedentedly tough immigration laws that its Governor passed earlier this year were blocked by a federal judge. Judge Susan Bolton ruled in favour of a lawsuit filed by the Obama administration as she forbade Arizona authorities from implementing central provisions of the new immigration law until the case was fully heard.

Governor Jan Brewer caused a nationwide furore in April when she signed into law the now-infamous SB 1070 bill, which made the failure to carry immigration documents a punishable offence; it also gave police sweeping powers to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally.

The ruling by Judge Bolton, while it did not block SB 1070 in its entirety, blocked several key powers granted to law enforcement authorities under the law. Most importantly, this include the stop-and-search power of authorities to “determine the immigration status of a person stopped, detained or arrested if there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is unlawfully present in the U.S., and requiring verification of the immigration status of any person arrested prior to releasing that person”.

In a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in July, Attorney General Eric Holder had challenged the constitutionality of SB 1070, arguing principally that the power to regulate immigration was “vested exclusively in the federal government, and that the provisions of SB 1070 are therefore pre-empted by federal law”.

While those opposing SB 1070 argued that the latest ruling was a warning to other jurisdictions considering a similar law, the judgment also comes at a time when no fewer than 20 states are contemplating harsher immigration rules.

Simultaneously Democratic governors across such states were reported to be putting greater pressure on President Obama as they worried about the political consequences of opposing such laws so close to the Congressional elections of November.

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Comments:
“House Bill 2013” and “SB1070”

0 = Arizona
2 = USA/ Our Constitution/ We the People of the United States

This month of July 2010, our U.S. Federal courts have found the so called State of Arizona hate filled legislation namely “House Bill 2013” and “SB1070” Un-constitution (So much for the intellect of Jan Brewer, “Did you read the bills you signed?”). But we all know that they will go crying to the Supreme Court of the United States, please, please, please go. We will fight you in Arizona, any other state, and yes in Washington DC. We will not tire, we will not be silent and we will persevere, I promise you. We are a country that is ruled by the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, not by the majority of the day. When you do not know the principles in these documents, therein lays the problem in losing when you are challenged in court.

In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme of clans; the Baggers, Birthers and Blowhards (people who love to push their beliefs and hate on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win in November. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”.

It’s all about politics: Jan Brewer you were never elected to be Governor, but you have no problem trying to get elected on the back of undocumented workers, you loser (sure you may win but the long-term effects to your so called State is just beginning). Here is a partial list of your hate filled legislation;

1. S.B. 1070,
2. House Bill 2013
3. No permit conceal weapons law,
4. The famous Birthers law,
5. Banning Ethnic studies law,

6. Could she be behind the Mural in Prescott, Arizona, ordered to be whiten,
7. On deck to pass, no citizenship to babies born to undocumented workers,

8. If she can read she should look up Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago (which was un-constitution and failed when legally challenged),
9. The boycotted Martin Luther King Day, what idiots don’t want another holiday? Yes, you guessed it Arizona.

Well Arizona, you can keep boycotting new holidays, passing hate filled legislation and the rest of our country will continue to challenge you in court of law and Boycott your so-called state.

Lets face it, no one can real believe anything that comes out of Brewer’s mouth, in an interview, this year, in an attempt to gain sympathy, she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (which ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. But we are suppose to believe everything else she says, right!

As they say in the World Cup: Gooooooooal!
 
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