Immigration bill heats up
Proponents of the Arizona Immigration Bill known as SB 1070 got a lift this past Wednesday as the bill made its way through the Supreme Court. The bill, which has fumbled through the court system since it was drafted in April of 2010, has finally entered the doors of the Supreme Court. After preliminary discussions of the bill commenced on Wednesday, the unanimous decision was that the state of Arizona’s case was in the driver’s seat.
Success — Arizona Governor Jan Brewer expressed her content with the bill’s beginning stages in the Supreme Court. Associated Press photo
Arizona’s governor Jan Brewer felt her time in court arguing the case was a success for her state and their quest to get the bill’s full passage.
“Today was a great day, I believe, for freedom and for states’ rights and for Senate Bill 1070,” said Brewer, who feels the case is helping change the perception of those who believe the bill is racial profiling.
“For two years, we’ve heard nothing other than Arizona is racist, Arizona is bigoted, and it is all about racial profiling. You walk down the street in Phoenix and you’re licking an ice cream cone, you’re going to get arrested if you don’t have proper ID,” Brewer said.
The bill, which is viewed as a crackdown on illegal immigrants by proponents and nothing more than racial profiling by opponents, has been debated for nearly two years now. Arizona’s border has resembled a revolving door for immigrants for years. The Arizona Daily-Star reported that the state was allowing nearly 475,000 immigrants a year to cross the border illegally. Illegal immigrants reap the benefits of school, healthcare and welfare systems that they haven’t funded through taxes, putting honest taxpayers on the back burner.
According to the U.S. Code Book, if passed, the law would require that all aliens 14 years or older presiding in the country for more than 30 days register with the government, receive documentation and have it in their possession at all times. The proposed bill would make it a misdemeanor to neglect carrying the required documents.
Opponents argue that police would saunter around abusing their powers to question any suspicious person throughout their day. These opponents seem to overlook the fact that the bill specifically states that law enforcement personnel are only given the power to ask for identification with “reasonable suspicion.”
That’s where common sense needs to step in, and those who disagree with the bill don’t want to accept that. Thousands of illegal immigrants are in Arizona, and they need to, over time, be removed. The only way for this to happen is to let law enforcement do its job, find who is not here legally, remove them and build the border up.
Even Donald Verilli, a member of the Obama administration who was present during the court hearings, admitted that racial profiling is not a legitimate arguing point. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was even more blunt in his assessment of the case, citing the fact that officers must have pulled a suspect over for reasons other than specifically being in the country illegally.
“The decision to stop the individual has nothing to do with immigration law at all. All that has to do with immigration law is whether or not they can ask the federal government to find out if this person is illegal or not, and then leave it up to you,” Roberts said to Verrilli. “It seems to me that the federal government just doesn’t want to know who is here illegally or not.”
For now, Roberts’ view seems to be that of the majority. Support is building, and it seems that it will only be a matter of time before it makes its way through the legislative process. Fox News reported that the final say could come as early as the end of June. If passed, expect other states to follow suit. Georgia, Alabama, Utah and other states have already drafted bills similar to SB 1070. More cases could be passing through the Supreme Court in the future.
It’s safe to say that this summer, the weather won’t be the only hot topic in Arizona.
The SC will not give the federal govt. permission to not enforce the federal law, which was adopted by AZ.
It seems that the open border groups are always orchestrating ways to subdue the impending danger of overpopulation growth and the illegal immigration invaders. I don’t think that in any other country allows illegal immigrants and migrants to fly foreign flags and have the audacity to demonstrate in large numbers. Any other land you would be swept up by federal police and hauled away to be locked up or disappear completely. I think it’s ridiculous that these people can get permits to disrupt traffic that is inconvenience to commuters. Not saying people should not be able to protest, but they should only be able to congregate in parks and do their harangue there. These are not TEA PARTY people and should not be classified as such. Notably any attendees of TEA PARTY congregations clean up after the crowds dissolve away. Not so with the so-called “Occupiers” who have left piles of trash anywhere they inhabit. TEA PARTY people comprise of every delusional political party, every racial background, religious doctrine and unknown numbers of individuals who have never even bothered to vote before?
Even if large numbers of migrants are leaving the United States, it doesn’t excuse the illegal aliens stealing jobs from different working occupations in this nation. Thousands, who manage to sneak over here in agricultural and farming employment, soon learn that there are other jobs in construction, services, landscaping, factories and the entertainment industry. Then these people disappear into cities and all regions of the U.S. replacing citizens and residents as cut price labor for unconcerned business owners. We don’t need any new immigration laws; we just require the government, businesses to comply with the 1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act? AMENDMENTS YES! NEW LAWS NO! The most scary outcome if the Obama administration passed a so called Comprehensive Immigration package, is the estimated $2.6 trillion dollar package to complete this task, as the American Federation of Immigration Reform (FAIR) as stated.
The Central government and other organization, including Pew Hispanic Center keep spitting these population numbers on the illegal immigration occupation. But if avid reader do their own research, this is just numbers conjured up to pacify the American people. From what I have surmised the figures of illegal people here is well into 20 million plus. Any survey can be engineered to make it less than they are? Probably they are not counting the hundreds of thousands of ‘foothold’ babies, unborn or who gain immediate citizenship when they are conceived. The illegal Mother can immediately claim, all the same welfare services for the child/ children as any U.S. born citizen or naturalized citizen immigrant. Once situated the whole family moves into the Section 8 housing. Each state wherever the family settles is forced by unfunded mandates, for infant delivery, food stamps, entitlements and subsidized housing. All paid for by the already overtaxed population. Don’t matter if it’s Alabana or any of the other 49 states as they are all distressed from the inability or for some unknown reason to create this mess along most of the undefended border, or entrants coming into America to stay, via the airlines.
What is noteworthy–that if Arizona gains a positive decision from the high court of the land, there will certainly be hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens sweeping throughout the country, seeking desperately for a new place to live? Interesting enough these persons will head for states with no policing enforcement as California, Nevada, Utah, Washington State and locations that have ignored the pleading of taxpayers about the burden of tax costs. These states already suffering from massive deficits will soon be overwhelmed by more illegal’s, than they had already. California being the paradise, with no enforcement against sanctuary city ordinances. This is the epitome of ‘Poetic Justice’ as California, run by Liberal state legislators have deceived their own legal residents, to subsidize the illegal immigrant invasion.
Voters must stipulate from GOP House speaker, John Boehner (R-OH) and Dave Camp, (R-MI) the Chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee to stop blocking the 50-state E-Verify bill. They are disinclined to allow the E-Verify bill to stop illegal aliens from stealing Social Security numbers to obtain U.S. jobs. If you are really feeling vigorous, why don’t you put in a call to one of Mr. Camp’s offices: 202-225-3625 Washington, DC (Ways & Means) 202-225-3561 Washington, DC (personal office) 202-224-3121 Washington, DC (Capitol switchboard) 989-631-2552 Midland, Mich. (district office) 231-929-4711 Traverse City, Mich. (district office?)
Demand these politicians stop blocking the bipartisan E-Verify “THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT” from being initiated in Congress by Texas Sen. Lamar Smith. Taxpayers are continuously afflicted at the hands of dishonest politicians who have sold us into financial bondage by allowing illegal immigration to persist almost unimpeded in coming here. Less than 28 bipartisan co-sponsors are needed to head this to the House chamber.
We must secure our borders, not just from the influx of illegal migrants, but the imminent peril of our national security.
As the Congress continues to bicker over mandatory E-Verify, the Obama Administration has issued a statement that it is getting ready to introduce a big expansion of the electronic application. A second law to support The Legal Workforce Act H.R. 2885 is to amend the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 (H.R.140); the country cannot maintain in subsidizing billions of dollars being extracted from the 50 states? Bad politicians should be thrown out of office, not excluding state Governors, Mayors, Judges and all elected officials, and replace them with Fresh Tea Party leaders who will insure everybody gets their fair share of the American Dream and enforce all laws attributed to the Constitution and the Rule of Law. NumbersUSA is maintaining a data base of all related information and you should investigate their website for the latest news.
This is not just about Mexicans, but Asians, Europeans and others who have strained our compassionate welfare programs, that every state has had to cut back public assistance on US citizens and permanent residents, with green card holders. It’s about anybody who violates a sovereign countries law? Both political parties are to blame for this conflict, as Democrats are out to lure more votes, legal or otherwise? The republicans are for larger profits of cheap labor from the business community, which has lowered wages for the average American worker. Neither party can be trusted to perform correctly, that is why the Constitutional Tea Party is swelling daily with new members in thousands of chapters as people are despondent with the direction of this country. This nation is near bankruptcy and with a 16 Trillion dollar deficit owed to foreign investors; the interest is more than the GDP.
GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney and every politician, along with all elected officials and manager, who better begin listening to the people; not the special interests and radicals, which they will be voted out in coming elections.
The ‘Occupy’ group is NOT the Tea Party; these are a mishmash, of anarchists, Marxists, communists, illegal immigrants, brain dead and a whole bunch of people who want something for—NOTHING—who will be demonstrating on May Day. They want taxpayers to pay for everything and so in their delirium they attack Wall Street. They are right that there is unmitigated greed, corruption and rot in this on Wall Street, but it also is rife in our government as well, with very little oversight in Congress.
The ‘PEOPLE’S’ Tea Party will enforce our immigration laws, that will represent the people, will introduce a well regulated farm bill so Guest Workers can arrive here and then mandatory depart after their contract expires, with no amnesty. That the farming and agricultural industry will pay the benefits for their labor and not the state’s taxpayers. There will no importation of migrant poverty anymore, cutting off access to welfare programs. Don’t need or should we accept any new low skilled workers, instead we need to supply our own citizens with more occupational programs. Another set of regulations to amend, would be a careful examination of the current visa system allowing around a million legal immigrants annually into the U.S. No further violation can be tolerated from businesses and we should only permit the highest brains in engineering, science, mathematicians and technology professionals to immigrate here
AZ adopted a federal law as it’s own. The SC is not going to give the feds permission to not enforce their own law. Even if this would make Mexico happy.