United States of America vs. The State of Arizona and Janice K. Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona in Her Official Capacity
I still don't get it. I guess the only ones who can explain this in Lake Worth are our Commissioners and then we still would not understand. They made a Resolution against Arizona because of a "social justice" issue. Federal immigration law trumps State law according to the Judge who was another one afraid of possible profiling. The problem here is that the Feds have not enforced its own laws. This entire problem has gone down Party lines. You can't find too many Democrats in support of Arizona and you can't find the City of Lake Worth, a Sanctuary City, in favor of it either. Those saying the law is "racist" count on the total ineffectiveness of the U.S. government to secure its borders and do anything. Now they are talking amnesty, something that will only encourage more to come and break our laws..
When you look at our property values and how they have declined over the past two years, it is not a coincidence that we just so happen to have a huge illegal immigration population here in our City...uninvited people, coddled by the City, and people who have crossed our borders and have broken the law. Lake Worth wants the citizens here to accept them and for us to fit into their culture. How stupid can you get?
We also have contributed to the problem by reducing the numbers of staff in our Code Department with one Commissioner saying that code fines do not work. Well, immigration law has not "worked" either because people have not been doing their jobs. The City was supposed to come up with a Plan in replacement for the reduction of code officers. Where is it? The result of this lack of a "plan" is that more and more property values have fallen to the lowest levels in 35 years and our City looking like a rat hole.
In spite of the fact that the Judge made a curious decision on federal law enforcement, at least Arizona can ban Sanctuary Cities. It stiffens penalties against illegal alien day laborers and their employers. Will this trickle over to Lake Worth and our illegal hiring hall?
Gov. Jan Brewer said, "This fight is far from over. In fact, it is just the beginning."
Professor William A. Jacobson, Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School says, "States have been left helpless to deal with the anarchy created by the failure of the federal government to enforce border security. Whereas yesterday it was unclear how far states could go, today states are powerless. The inability of a state to implement a policy of checking the immigration status even of people already under arrest for some other crime is remarkable. While I cannot blame the Judge for striking some provisions of S.B. 1070 (particularly those creating independent criminal sanctions), the ruling as to checking the status of people already under arrest is mind-numbing."
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., called the ruling "misguided." "The federal government has a right and a responsibility to enforce existing laws, but when they fail to meet that responsibility, we should not stand in the way of the states that take action to respond to the very real threat of border violence, drug cartels and human smuggling," he said in a written statement. "There's nowhere in the Constitution that says a state is limited to what it absolutely won't do and can be stopped for what it might do and to exercise a judgment against a state that has passed a law that is consistent with existing federal law is beyond absurd."
Gov. Bill Richardson from New Mexico said, "It's a correct decision because what the judge said was that Arizona law was interfering into federal responsibility," adding that the law could lead to racial profiling and damage American interests abroad. "What I see is a protracted fight that will go all the way to the Supreme Court." (Bill Richardson is half Mexican and a Democrat)
Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee said, "Now we find out the truth: while saying one thing to the public, the Obama administration is scheming to ensure that immigration laws are not enforced."
Sen John McCain said, "Instead of wasting taxpayer resources filing a lawsuit against Arizona and complaining that the law would be burdensome, the Obama administration should have focused its efforts on working with Congress to provide the necessary resources to support the state in its efforts to act where the federal government has failed to take responsibility. McCain once supported an immigration policy overhaul but now, facing a tough challenge in the Republican primary, backs the law in his home state.
Marco Rubio said, "Just to be clear, I opposed racial profiling, and to their credit, the Arizona Legislature changed that law. And because they did, obviously that law is more palatable -- and legally more palatable. I think the decision today is important to understand, number one, why do we even have an Arizona law? And that's because the federal government hasn't done its job. And the second thing we need to remind ourselves is that the court hasn't thrown the law out. What they did was they basically postponed implementation until certain issues are resolved with it...I think at the end of the day, the law is going to be upheld. Arizona has a 10th Amendment right to provide for the public safety of their residents, and to do so by enforcing existing federal immigration law."
Sen. Monty Pearce from Idaho, a second cousin of Russell Pearce and a supporter of immigration reform in his State said, "We're going to have to look and see. Nobody had dreamed up, two years ago, the Arizona law, and so everybody is looking for that crack where we can get something done, where we can turn the clock back a little bit and get our country back."
Rick Scott, candidate for Governor of Florida said, "It just doesn't make sense for a judge to prohibit police from doing their job and asking people they arrest to show proof that they are here legally."
Bill McCollum, Attorney General of Florida and candidate for governor said, "The Obama administration continues its efforts to strip rights away from our States and we all should be very concerned about these intrusions."
Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors who will be filing his own law suit said, "I think the Obama administration has made a strategic blunder. Arizona is on very firm legal footing and the administration is just trying to intimidate Arizona."
On the latest opinion poll taken by CNN, 86 percent say immigration is going to play a somewhat or very important role in their voting decisions in November. 60 percent favor the law. Most said that immigration law was "very important" and strongly support Arizona 1070 and opposed the suit.
According to The State, Lawmakers or candidates in as many as 18 states say they want to push similar measures when their legislative sessions start up again in 2011. Some lawmakers pushing the legislation said they would not be daunted by the ruling and plan to push ahead in response to what they believe is a scourge that needs to be tackled.
How you perceive Arizona 1070 is primarily based on race and gender. Fifty-five percent of people questioned in the recent CNN poll say they favor the measure, with four in 10 saying they oppose the law. Thirty-four percent of white respondents oppose the measure, but among Hispanics, that number jumps to 71 percent.
We are getting screwed by our government. They have no desire to listen to the will of the people.
It is time this November to make changes that politicians can finally understand.
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