Breaking: Obama Dropping The Hammer On Arizona
 

White House to challenge Arizona immigration law - Jun 2010

Obama administration lawyers are planning to file a legal challenge to a controversial Arizona immigration law within a month, according to a senior administration official.

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:2 cents: Time for Arizona to rejoin the rest of the civilized world.

Civilized world? No thanks, I dont want my state looking anything like the shit hole the illegals have turned AZ into.

Well, Federal law still overrides state law. I said this when the whole controversy began. The Gov will strike it down. Guess what... it's going down.

Agreed. But maybe just like Bush should have, Obama should do something.

Yep. No argument there. I don't think they will, but yeah, they should.

If the feds find a court that will go in their favor and Arizona decides to appeal it will eventually end up in the Supreme court and all of this takes time.

One of the problems Arizona faces is...only the feds can deport...so all Arizona can do is detain which will cost them monies that the state really doesn't have. It is being reported that illegals are leaving the state...but I don't think anyone knows what the numbers are.

Catering to the Mexican vote, which will probably represent a majority of votes come next presidential election.

Just kidding...or am I?! Seriously though, I was wondering how long it would take him to do that...it seemed like a fairly ridiculous law for a state to try and get away with, but I do give them props for having the balls to do it and hopefully giving the president something to think about as they look at polls showing people's approval of it. I'm sure a lot of that approval is not necessarily of the law itself but that it's SOME measure designed to counteract the illegal immigration problem that no one else is doing anything about.

Yep. If Obama wants to lead now is the time. Clearly he doesn't like the Arizona law, so he now needs to step up and offer a legit federal alternative.

A. Not a shit hole.
B. Californians are far, far worse than Mexicans.

certainly sounds like it :2 cents:

Don't think it'll ever happen. Democrats get the minority vote, Republicans' big business buddies get the cheap labor...illegal immigration is a win for both so they really don't give a shit. Say what you will about the Arizona measure but they're at least trying to solve the problem.

I think most Republicans are worse in the matter generally because they'll say all day long that illegal immigration is a problem because they want to act like they're interested in protecting the country for the senior vote, all the while doing absolutely nothing about it because of the cheap labor it brings to the companies that give them lots of money. Democrats at least don't have to be two-faced about it like most Republicans have been.

Any solutions at the federal level will stay nothing but vapor, at least for the foreseeable future. He's neck deep with BP at the moment.

Not true in all cases.

The federal government is empowered by the states and the people --not the other way around.

The federal government cannot legally legislate away the limits placed on its powers by the US Constitution:

"The Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states by the Constitution of the United States are reserved to the states or the people."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_A...s_Constitution

It's about time to make the immigration laws that most people want.

I agree. I think there will be some kind of immigration reform (when exactly I don't know), but I think it will be pretty watered down. Bush held the house, senate and white house for 6 years and every one of those years he talked about securing our borders yet did nothing about it. If they really wanted to pass a law they could have. The same goes for Obama now. He has the majority in all houses, they could push something through, but most likely will not.

Then they better sue California to... same law on the books for many many years.

California Penal Code Section 834b - (a) Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws. (b) With respect to any such person who is arrested, and suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws, every law enforcement agency shall do the following: (1) Attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a citizen of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident, an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time or as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of immigration laws. The verification process may include, but shall not be limited to, questioning the person regarding his or her date and place of birth, and entry into the United States, and demanding documentation to indicate his or her legal status. (2) Notify the person of his or her apparent status as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws and inform him or her that, apart from any criminal justice proceedings, he or she must either obtain legal status or leave the United States. (3) Notify the Attorney General of California and the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal status and provide any additional information that may be requested by any other public entity. (c) Any legislative, administrative, or other action by a city, county, or other legally authorized local governmental entity with jurisdictional boundaries, or by a law enforcement agency, to prevent or limit the cooperation required by subdivision (a) is expressly prohibited.

Turning the attention, spinnin, spinnin, Oh the blowout killing the ocean gets less coverage all the sudden. BP has fucked it worse then the whole damn shithole called Mexico and the fence jumpers ever could. Stay focused:upsidedow

kiss my grits!

Expect his ratings to dive even more....

I haven't seen the recent polls but last time I looked it was 58% of the population favored the Arizona legislation,so there is no way this will end up well for President Obama.

that operation wetback only deproted 50k or something, compared to the 700k that left voluntarily

Say what?

lol and if you went to Alabama in the 60's and asked if black people should be allowed to vote and marry white people you would probably get the same result. That's why we have the fucking government step in and protect the rights of the minority.

14th Amendment FTW!

its at a point now that it seems that obama is trying to protect people that are using things that they are not entitled to. time is running out. all these home invasions, amber alerts, drop house victims etc all protecting illegals. i think if your caught here twice they should be denied citizenship.

I'm glad I live way up in Michigan

Here are some other staggering stats taken from wikipedia:

"Annually the cost of illegal immigration to Los Angeles County taxpayers exceeds $1 billion dollars, which includes $350 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $500 million in welfare and food stamps allocations. Twenty-four percent of the County?s total allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens born in the United States." He referred to the costs as "catastrophic" for taxpayers. He estimated that the total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers exceeds $1 billion a year, excluding education"

1 billion per year just for 1 county . . . Imagine how much it must cost for the entire states of California a Arizona

OMG, this will be History if the Gov does something good for a change..

That's funny because those figures don't tell you how much money "illegals" bring in through things like sales tax and just plain old buying shit at the local stores. In fact California, Florida, Texas, and many other states with large immigrant populations would be FUCKED if it weren't for the "illegals" money. When I say FUCKED I mean it. The sates literally would not be able to make it through the year.

"According to the Comptrollers? office, state and local governments spent $1.16 billion to provide services like education, health care and safety, but raised an estimated $1.58 billion in tax revenues. Based on the data, the Texas taxpayer made a $424.7 million profit on its illegal immigrant population in 2006."

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/mar...pite-rhetoric/

So yeah illegals cost a bunch of money but they bring MORE money in than they take out. If you were really looking for a solution and not just succumbing to xenophobic impulses you would realize that the best course of action would be to tax the shit out of the immigrant population and make even more of a profit!

Except that this particular section of California law was already enjoined by the courts, and the injunction against its enforcement remains in place to this day.

It did indeed pass as part of Prop 187 in 1994, but it was challenged and enjoined by a federal district court in Los Angeles. California appealed, but the appeal was abandoned under the Wilson administration.

So, the law remains "on the books" in the sense that it has not been excised or revised by the California state legislature, but it cannot be enforced due to the federal court's injunction.

Something similar will happen with the Arizona law; the court will issue a TRO against the statute's enforcement pending adjudication. From there, it will either make its way slowly through the courts, with the losing side appealing whatever decision is made in each step along the way, or one side or the other will abandon their effort. The process may or may not involve being remanded to a lower court for trial, should there be a reversal on appeal (one way or the other) at some point in the dance.

So... at the end of the day, only one thing is CERTAIN about this law: the wrangling over it will allow the federal and the state government to do what it is that they do best -- spend money they do not have.

post some proof of citizenship or im turning you in.

Hopefully Arizona wins!

Yeah that would be great! Then the state would be bankrupted with lawsuits and serve as an example to other states thinking about doing stupid shit like this.

Yeah, it'd be awesome if they listen to the states its actually happening in. Would definitely be something good for a change.

this is one of the reasons we will stand behind the new law. fuck obama. :2 cents:

The stupid thing would have been for Arizona to have not passes the law and let the illegals bankrupt them!

Good move for Obama to go against the 58% of the population in favor of the new law :thumbsup what a fucking rocket scientist :D

Eh, we are a pretty poor state to begin with ... cause of the illegals.

he's trying to get the hispanic votes for the up coming election. alot of people don't know that the law was written up by one of the best immigration lawyers in the country. pierce was the master mind behind it tho.

How about the "civilized world" actually enforce their own fucking laws for a change and those "civilized people" breaking the law be held accountable. And the federal government actually try to protect our boarders.... sooner or later a suit case nuke will go off in this country and i bet you 100:1 it will have gotten into the country through our lack of control to our borders in the southwest.