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| Department of Justice sues Arizona over immigration law |
| 2010-07-08 |
| The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is suing Arizona over its controversial immigration law, saying it conflicts with federal statutes. In its complaint, the department said that it is seeking a preliminary injunction that would delay the July 29 implementation of the law pending the result of the case. The federal government is also seeking to quash the law on a permanent basis. The government's court complaint claims the law threatens the federal government's responsibility to create immigration policy, saying that it is an attempt to create "local" immigration standards. "Although states may exercise their police power in a manner that has an incidental or indirect effect on aliens, a state may not establish its own immigration policy or enforce state laws in a manner that interferes with the federal immigration laws," the complaint reads. "The Constitution and the federal immigration laws do not permit the development of a patchwork of state and local immigration policies throughout the country." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 This won't hurt THE ONE a bit. Even if he loses, he will be slamming the right as racist and further establishing a brown coalition for years, playing the race card for all it's worth, he needs it, the left needs it, ( they have been historically the most racist party in the U.S. Look it up). I think this lawsuit is brilliant politics on his part. |
| Posted by: Flapper Scourge of the Algonquins4926 2010-07-08 19:54 |
| #5 Now you're talkin Lex. I'm for a good ol' fashioned 'scare the hell out of them' moment to snap them back to reality. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-07-08 15:43 |
| #4 The cynicism here is breathtaking. But let's not forget that both Tweedledum and Tweedledee play the pander-to-Aztlan game. It was a Republican president who pushed for and passed the original bill that opened the floodgates, the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" (?) bill in 1986. Both of the GOP's candidates for national office in the California races this fall are bending over backwards to signal their opposition to Arizona's law. We will not avoid Mexification so long as this political class retains power. Time for a new political class in this country. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-07-08 13:36 |
| #3 Obama is playing politics with immigration, working for the next election. We are fighting over right and wrong. He could care less. So what we in Arizona must do is change our tactics. We need to drop 1070. Announce we dont have the time, money or effort to fight this. Then announce what we do have the time and money to fight is the law suits against him and the fed for not doing their job. Announce that Obama is supporting human trafficking and slave trade. Sue him for civil right violations on behalf of all the mexican in Arizona. Then sue the fed for the cost we spend to care for the Mexicans. I'm sure there are some civil right legal types that would love this. Tear apart his party from the inside. We have to get in the game with this idiot. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-07-08 12:12 |
| #2 And furthermore, if this is the case, then perhaps AZ can keep it in the "indirect" territory by bussing all illegal aliens to Washington, DC. One way. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-08 09:49 |
| #1 So the feds think they can force a state to commit suicide? For some reason, it seems to me that the founding fathers probably would have thought that this idea was so stupid that it wasn't worth writing into the Constitution. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-08 09:48 |