It wasn’t long after the news that a federal judge blocked key portions of the controversial Arizona immigration law, did the commentary start rolling in online.
Here’s a sampling:
The Guardian‘s Michael Tomasky:
This is the part of the law that in effect required – okay, let’s not say required; let’s say it made it the better part of wisdom and prudence – brown-skinned people to have their papers with them at all times. She upheld other aspects of the law and they can go into effect Thursday.
It would seem, unless I’m misinterpreting, that the supremacy clause argument made by the federal government won the day.
CNN‘s Jeffery Toobin:
So what happens now?
Some of it will have to do with the legal strategy followed by the state of Arizona here. The state of Arizona could ask the judge to revisit the issue after more fact-finding. They could also go directly to the Court of Appeals — which is the next up in the federal court structure.
I think this is a case very much destined for United States Supreme Court. It is the kind of big issue relating to the responsibilities of state versus federal government on a very important matter, so it’s likely, given how much attention this law received that other states will be passing similar laws. I think the Supreme Court will get involved probably next year. The issue that’s up in the air is will the law be in effect while the appeals process goes forward? At the moment the answer is no — at least this one provision. But certainly an appeals process will begin. If not immediately, then soon.
Huffington Post‘s Ray Suarez:
Actors and athletes get a lot of attention when they take public stands on issues like immigration. It will be interesting to see if the state’s merchants feel the more modest pain others promise to inflict. This week I looked on as Alma Mendoza, who came to the United States illegally as a teenager and now owns her own house-cleaning business, got her house ready for 8 out of state visitors coming to protest. “They are staying with me because they don’t want to spend any money in Arizona. So I’m getting beds ready for them.”
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard:
Jan Brewer played politics with immigration, and she lost.
Rather than providing the leadership Arizona needs to solve the immigration problem, Jan Brewer signed a bill she could not defend in court which has led to boycotts, jeopardized our tourism industry and polarized our state. It is time to look beyond election year grandstanding and begin to repair the damage to Arizona’s image and economy.
Perhaps now we in Arizona can focus on effective steps to fight border crime and keep our families safe. Now we can focus on steps, such as the ones I have been taking, to go after border crime and cut off the cash that flows to organized criminal cartels that smuggle thousands into the U.S.
CD8 candidate Jesse Kelly:
Recently, the Obama Administration attacked Arizona for trying to defend itself. Today, the courts leave our state defenseless against the violence and murders caused by illegal immigration. This is a travesty! The federal government has refused to do its job but will not allow the states to protect themselves.
… and here’s what the morning daily had to say:
The poor phrasing of the central provision in SB 1070 led to its being thrown out, according to the injunction issued today by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton.
The first sentence of Section 2(B) of the law details the situations in which police officers must attempt to determine a person’s immigration status. It says that during any lawful stop, detention or arrest, if an officer has reasonable suspicion that a person is illegally in the country, the officer must make an effort to find out if the person is legally in the country.
But the next sentence says simply: “Any person who is arrested shall have the person’s immigration status determined before the person is released.”
This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2010.
Hey! Whether its the economically strained state of Arizona, Fremont Nebraska, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Californians, Proposition187 or any other small town, hamlet or community suffering from being forced by IRS regulations to subsidize illegal aliens? Or just the overwhelming criminal activity that has spread throughout America like a pestilence unfettered drunk drivers, assaults, murders, rapes, child predators and other terrible afflictions played on innocent victims. Americans are like taut bands of cat gut that cannot expand any more. They are angry and exasperated with every administration that has offered irrelevance to Citizens-legal residents. We will–NEVER–get the truth from certain media, such as the Liberal oriented Los Angeles Times, New York Time or the most ultra left Huffington Post? The rhetorical and propaganda that spills like toxic spit, is downright dishonorable to the taxpaying public
The US GOVERNMENT has unremittingly lied to us, Lied about the real border fence, lied about the quantities of illegal aliens squatting here in the US and continuously lied to us about the costs in supporting illegal aliens and their households. I hope every American develops into a whistle-blower to inform ICE where illegal aliens are? And just like our own government connives with the open border nuts, I do hope every American uses his wits to ponder some way to track these criminals and get them handcuffed and deported. Inform on business holders who are using illegal labor or some other method, should get a reward. YOU CANNOT BELIEVE ONE WORD OUR GOVERNMENT TELLS US, AS THIS HAS BEEN SHOWN BY THE SECRET FILES RELEASED TO THE NEW YORK TIMES ABOUT THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN.
I HAVE JUST HEARD THAT FEDERAL JUDGE BOLTON IN ARIZONA HAS RULED THAT CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE LAW ARE NOT APPLICABLE. MORE THAN EVER NOW WE MUST BOYCOTT ANY BUSINESS, COMPANY, OR STORE THAT DOESN’T USE E-E VERIFY AS A DIRECT DANGER TO OUR JOBS. TO OUR NATIONWIDE.WELFARE SYSTEM. WE MUST PUBLICIZE ALL THOSE CORPORATE, BUSINESS WORMS WHO ARE USING ILLEGAL LABOR. DIRECT THE BLAME SEN. HARRY REID OF NEVADA, A LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT FOR STOPPING A PERMANENT E-VERIFY IN THE SENATE. REMOVE THIS CORRUPT POLITICIAN FROM OFFICE IN NOVEMBER. THROW OUT ALL INCUMBENTS OUT OF OFFICE. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN WASHINGTON AND DEMAND THEY STOP THE FOREIGN OCCUPATION OF NATION AT 202-224-3121 MILLIONS ARE JOINING http://WWW.NUMBERSUSA.COM AND FIGHTING BACK AGAINST GENERATIONS OF LYING GOVERNMENT. READ ABOUT POLITICAL CORRUPTION AT http://WWW.JUDICIALWATCH.ORG
Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader in the close knit pack of Democrats, believes he is getting bad polling numbers, owing to the ingress of new residents that don’t know him. Unfortunately he’s right, as a great majority of the new arrivals over the last five years were illegal aliens, taking construction jobs in the once thriving building boom. Now with the economic downturn, the building industry has faded out, after the greedy grasping of cheap labor by construction owners. Now out of work illegal immigrants unable to find work, are suffocating the welfare offices and that the reason the state of Nevada is hurting economically. The illegal alien invasion has not gone away and have infiltrated more than ever, in the casinos and entertainment-service industry as a whole. While Americans and legal residents remain jobless, illegal immigrants have transferred to those positions at lower wages. Whether its the economically strained state of Arizona, Fremont Nebraska, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Californians, Proposition187 or any other small town, hamlet or community suffering from being forced by IRS regulations to subsidize illegal aliens?
In any midterm elections or November, we must be careful to watch for irregularities in Nevada, but across the wide spectrum of polling places in this country. Only a few states have strict regulations on federal voting rules and absentee ballots little or none. Absentee voting is especially opened to fraud, and incumbent politicians with their careers on the line have much to lose. If a person (s) have criminally penetrated America, without being processed, it is my belief that many illegal entrants will break the law further by voting for pro-amnesty afficiardo’s like Sen. Reid? Citizenship is and should be a basic requirement for voting. Citizenship is a legal requirement to vote in federal and state elections, except for a small number of local elections in a few jurisdictions. Non-citizen voting is likely growing at the same rate as the alien population in the country; but because of deficiencies in state law and the failure of federal agencies to comply with federal law, there are almost no procedures in place that allow election officials to detect, deter, and prevent non-citizens from registering and voting. Instead, officials are largely dependent on an “honor system” that expects aliens to follow the law. There are numerous cases showing the failure of this honor system.
Here are some excerpts from eyewitness accounts and summaries of foreign nationals voting in federal elections
In California, as an example former Republican Rep. Robert K. Dornan was defeated by Democrat Loretta Sanchez by 984 votes in the 1996 election. State officials found that at least 300 votes were cast illegally by non-citizens. Honolulu Advertiser, September 9, 2000. Election officials found 543 Oahu residents who were not U.S. citizens had registered to vote.
In 1996, Congress enacted the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, making it a federal crime for non-citizens to vote in any federal election (or state election, unless authorized by state law). As a penalty, ineligible non-citizens who knowingly vote may be deported. Additionally, a non-citizen who falsely claims to be a United States citizen is in violation of this law. In 1997, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Dallas were investigating voting by non-citizens. They sent a computerized tape of the names of individuals who had voted to the INS requesting a check against INS records, but the INS refused to cooperate with the criminal investigation. An INS official was quoted as saying that the INS bureaucracy did not “want to open a Pandora’s Box…. If word got out that this is a substantial problem, it could tie up all sorts of manpower. There might be a few thou sand [illegal voters] in Dallas, for example, but there could be tens of thousands in places like New York, Chicago or Miami.”
Eight of the World trade Center 11 murderers were registered to vote in either Virginia or Florida—registrations that were probably obtained when they applied for driver’s licenses.
We cannot afford to let our our guard down and those who are doubtful of these statistic as a fallacy, should type into Goggle, Yahoo “Voter Fraud.” We have already heard of intimidation by the Black Panthers, should be aware that in most states the so called “HONOR SYSTEM” prevails. We must eye incumbent elections, that a few hundred votes could put a bad politician back in office, such as Sen. Harry Reid. A few hundred illegal votes could make a world of difference in a close race. Your vote is important to Washington’s Senate and Congressman, so bombard them that you are adamantly against any type of Amnesty. You want them to secure the border and do it now, because Mexico’s blood bath could easily erupt here. Call the Washington switchboard at 202-224-3121.
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