JD wants injuction against AZ immigration law

christiefan915

christiefan915

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High time. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Arizona, charging that the state's new immigration law is unconstitutional and requesting a preliminary injunction to stop the legislation from taking effect.

The lawsuit says the law illegally intrudes on federal prerogatives, invoking as its main argument the legal doctrine of "preemption," which is based on the Constitution's supremacy clause and says that federal law trumps state statutes. The Justice Department argues that enforcing immigration laws is a federal responsibility and says an injunction is needed to prevent "irreparable harm" to the United States.

The filing also asserts that the Arizona law would harm people's civil rights, leading to police harassment of U.S. citizens and foreigners. President Barack Obama has warned that the law could violate citizens' civil rights, and Attorney General Eric Holder has expressed concern that it could drive a wedge between police and immigrant communities.

"Arizona impermissibly seeks to regulate immigration by creating an Arizona-specific immigration policy that is expressly designed to rival or supplant that of the federal government," the Justice Department says in its legal brief. "As such, Arizona's immigration policy exceeds a state's role with respect to aliens, interferes with the federal government's balanced administration of the immigration laws, and critically undermines U.S. foreign policy objectives."

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SmarterThanYou said:
It's stupefying how some people don't want certain federal laws enforced, yet will vehemently protest when others aren't.
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In this particular instance it goes what is definitely a core function of any state: border and immigration enforcement.

Does that clear it up for you?
 
SmarterThanYou said:
It's stupefying how some people don't want certain federal laws enforced, yet will vehemently protest when others aren't.
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Tell me. Do you support the EPA? If not, why? What about Federal laws against Treason that are listed in the constitution?

I think the difference is that national defense is a core function of the federal government, one that they have ignored so wholeheartedly that they are willing to cede a whole national park to illegal trafficking in people and drugs and just place sings saying, "citizens, don't come in here"...
 
I love how it's ok for sanctuary municipalities to advertise their subversion of federal immigration laws, but when a state wants to take action to stop illegal activity, they get stopped by our feds.
 
This is a win/win for AZ.
The argument is going to be that it's the Fed's job to protect the border and AZ gets to show that the Feds aren't doing their job.
If the courts rule against the Feds, then more and more States are going to pass similar laws.
If the courts rule against AZ, then it opens the door for the Feds to be sued for all the money that the States have spent in relationship to the illegal immigrants.

I would love to see how the Fed's lawyers are going to argue that the Feds are doing their job.
 
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The lawsuit filed in Phoenix federal court on Tuesday sidestepped concerns about the potential for racial profiling and civil rights violations most often raised by immigration advocates.


Whats funny is Obama's stormtroopers did not even include that into their lawsuit, but that is all we heard from the libtards since Arizona passed the law.
 
webbway said:
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The lawsuit filed in Phoenix federal court on Tuesday sidestepped concerns about the potential for racial profiling and civil rights violations most often raised by immigration advocates.


Whats funny is Obama's stormtroopers did not even include that into their lawsuit, but that is all we heard from the libtards since Arizona passed the law.
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That's because the "stormtroopers" know full well this is not what it's about in either the Federal or State rendition, especially since they mirror eachother.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
This is a win/win for AZ.
The argument is going to be that it's the Fed's job to protect the border and AZ gets to show that the Feds aren't doing their job.
If the courts rule against the Feds, then more and more States are going to pass similar laws.
If the courts rule against AZ, then it opens the door for the Feds to be sued for all the money that the States have spent in relationship to the illegal immigrants.

I would love to see how the Fed's lawyers are going to argue that the Feds are doing their job.
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I keep wondering WTF Obama hopes to accomplish out of this other than it provides him a smokescreen for the $hitstorm he's waded through on the Gulf Coast.

I am with you Free. I can't wait to see them try and defend they've been sitting on their thumbs and that the pathway to hell has been paved with their good intentions and campaign promises.

Obama's looking more and more like an empty suit with each passing day.
 
I mean, this law that passed in Arizona, which I think is a poorly conceived law, you can try to make it really tough on people who look like they, “might be illegal immigrants.”

One of the things that the law says is local officials are allowed to ask somebody who they have a suspicion might be an illegal immigrant for their papers.

But you can imagine, if you are a Hispanic American in Arizona, your great-grandparents may have been there before Arizona was even a state.

But now, suddenly, if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you’re going to be harassed.

That’s something that could potentially happen.

In sum, the system is broken, and everybody knows it.

Unfortunately, reform has been held hostage to political posturing and special-interest wrangling and to the pervasive sentiment in Washington that tackling such a thorny and emotional issue is inherently bad politics.

Well, here’s my plan, and by the way, it’s not my plan.

I think it’s going to have to be a plan where all Americans arrive at a common-sense consensus about responsibility when it comes to immigration.

Now, it’s a controversial issue, but the truth is if you talk to most Americans they probably have a similar concept, and that is most Americans recognize we’re a nation of immigrants.

Very few of you are Native Americans, which means most of you came here from someplace else, or your families came here, your great-great-great grandparents came here from somewhere else.

So, we are a nation of immigrants.

We were founded on immigration.

That’s what that whole Plymouth Rock thing was about, immigration, so we’re a nation of immigrants.
 
We should make it easier for the best and the brightest to come to start businesses and develop products and create jobs.

Our laws should respect families following the rules, instead of splitting them apart.

I’m going to continue to advocate on behalf of finally fixing the system so that we don’t have either the kind of bad laws that we’ve seen in Arizona, or, alternatively, we’ve got half-a-million illegal folks coming into Arizona without any control.

Neither of those things is sensible, and we can have a common-sense law, but we’re going to have to work together across party lines to make it happen.
 
usaloyal2theend said:
I keep wondering WTF Obama hopes to accomplish out of this other than it provides him a smokescreen for the $hitstorm he's waded through on the Gulf Coast.

I am with you Free. I can't wait to see them try and defend they've been sitting on their thumbs and that the pathway to hell has been paved with their good intentions and campaign promises.

Obama's looking more and more like an empty suit with each passing day.
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I think it's an attempt by the Demorats to try and garner the Hispanic vote.
The only trouble is; is that there is a large group of Hispanics that don't seem to have a problem with SB 1070.
 
I mean, we can try to build as many fences as we want at the border, but the fact is if folks are making $2 a day back home, and they can make $10 an hour here, they’re going to come here, unless we make sure that employers are doing what’s lawful.

So, we’ve got to take that seriously.

Now, I’ve been pushing for this.

I want it to happen.

The only way it’s going to happen is if Democrats and Republicans come together and do this, because this is such a volatile issue.
 
President Barack Obama said:
I mean, we can try to build as many fences as we want at the border, but the fact is if folks are making $2 a day back home, and they can make $10 an hour here, they’re going to come here, unless we make sure that employers are doing what’s lawful.

So, we’ve got to take that seriously.

Now, I’ve been pushing for this.

I want it to happen.

The only way it’s going to happen is if Democrats and Republicans come together and do this, because this is such a volatile issue.
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lesion troll....your president is extremely divisive, kill this awful troll
 
Oh my money is on the dems getting the Hispanic vote. I do think republicans will get the Klan and malitia vote though.
 
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