You just knew that this was bound to happen at some point. And what better time to sneak in this lawsuit than when everyone was focused on the debt ceiling fight?
The Justice Department filed a challenge to Alabama’s tough anti-illegal-immigration law Monday, arguing that the Constitution prohibits state and local governments from creating a national “patchwork” of immigration policies.
The suit, filed in Alabama’s Northern District, marks the second time the Obama administration has sought to block a state immigration reform law. Last year, the Justice Department filed a similar challenge to Arizona’s controversial SB 1070. A federal judge decided to temporarily block key parts of that law, including a provision that would have required police to determine suspects’ immigration status. (snip)
The federal complaint argues that the law, which is set to take effect Sept. 1, “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.”
Well, if the Obama admin. is claiming that the Constitution prohibits…, then they should have no problem doing it themselves, right? It should be interesting to see what Alabama argues, which should certainly include the malfeasance of Los Federal government, along with the 9th and 10th amendments. The Law of the USA may be the supreme law, but, is there any reason why States cannot tighten those laws up?
Then there is Article IV Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;… That would seem to say that Los Federales are duty bound to stop illegal immigration.
Article IV Section 3: The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. So, States have a claim to deal with their own property.
Moreover, the law, known as HB 56, “would result in the harassment and incarceration of lawful resident aliens — and even U.S. citizens who would not have readily available documentation to demonstrate their citizenship,” the government argued.
Yet, so far, any incidents have been so minor as to be meaningless. People who did not break the law have been harassed for other things in the past. Some people have been, unfortunately, put in jail for crimes they did not commit. Nothing is perfect.
But, hey, perhaps Team Obama has tanked the economy even further in order to get the illegals to go back to their home countries, because there are no jobs here.
Georgia, South Carolina, Utah and Indiana are surely next on the block for a lawsuit, as they also have tough illegal alien laws. Expect those suits to come quickly, if they come, because Team Obama surely doesn’t want these lawsuits during the general election season, since so many people are against illegal immigration.
It is obviously OK with the Obie Wans that California has adopted much stricter EPA guidelines than the federal has, but you know, that’s for the good of the Dims and Gaia. If, however, your state should pass a law that goes against what the Dims want for our country, then that must be prosecuted to the full extent of the money we don’t have. Liberals are traitors.
yeah, I didn’t see this coming.
Let’s see… conservative state. Socialist Fed. Suit.
liberal state. Socialist Fed. More federal dollars.
Time to throw these people in jail and get back to making this nation a law of men. Time to get rid of our national Socialism and return to our Republic.
That’s been the philosophy of this regime – get people looking in one direction while you slip in a bunch of stuff from the other direction and hope no one notices. That was what they were hoping with Gunwalker & Fast and Furious – didn’t work.