A federal judge on Wednesday blocked some of the toughest provisions in the Arizona immigration law, putting on hold the state’s attempt to enforce federal immigration policy.
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U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton also struck down the section of law that makes it a crime for someone to fail to carry immigration registration papers and the provision that makes it a crime for an illegal immigrant to seek or perform work.
It’s illegal to employ an illegal, but it’s not illegal for them to work, illegally?
PHOENIX (AP) – Mexico is asking a federal court in Arizona to declare the state’s new immigration law unconstitutional. Lawyers for Mexico on Tuesday submitted a legal brief in support of a lawsuit challenging the law.
The law generally requires police investigating another incident or crime to ask people about their immigration status if there’s a “reasonable suspicion” they’re in the country illegally.
It also makes being in Arizona illegally a misdemeanor, and it prohibits seeking day-labor work along the state’s streets.
FREMONT, Neb. (AP) – This small Nebraska meatpacking town has joined Arizona at the center of a national debate about illegal immigration after voters approved a ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants, but an expected court challenge could keep the measure from ever taking effect.
The American Civil Liberties Union already has promised to file a lawsuit to block enforcement of the proposal roughly 57 percent of Fremont voters supported Monday. “In a community of 25,000, it’s going to be hard to take on the whole country, and it will be costly to do so,” said Fremont City Councilman Scott Getzschman, who opposed the measure but said city leaders would support the results.
Fremont’s vote is the latest chapter in the tumult over illegal immigration across the country, including a recently passed Arizona law that will require police investigating another incident or crime to ask people about their immigration status if there’s a “reasonable suspicion” they are in the country illegally.
The Fremont measure will require would-be renters to apply for a license from the city. Officials must refuse to issue a license to applicants found to be in the country illegally. The ordinance also requires businesses to use the federal E-Verify database to ensure employees are allowed to work.
The city, which is about 35 miles northwest of Omaha, has watched as its Hispanic population surged in the past two decades, largely due to the jobs available at the nearby Fremont Beef and Hormel meatpacking plants.
The census is on it’s way next year, and the democrats are hoping to count each and every illegal alien in the country. It may be a bit harder with ACORN out of the picture, but it seems Tom Henry is stepping in where ACORN was pushed out.
Henry hired Palermo Galindo as Fort Wayne’s Hispanic-immigrant liaison back in June. Palermo Galindo operates Centro De Dinero, one of those high-priced check cashing services whose target audience is the Hispanic market, and undoubtedly Fort Wayne’s illegal alien population.
This morning, the Commissioner of the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Andy Miller, announced big changes that will take effect on January 1, 2010, concerning the documentation necessary to obtain a driver’s license or state-issued identification card.
Okay, I don’t speak the Spanish lingo, I used Babelfish, so correct me if you want.
The Department of Justice last month walked away from a winning case of voter intimidation against members of the New Black Panther Party. Apparently that wasn’t enough. Now they’re telling the state of Georgia they can no longer verify that someone is actually a U.S. citizen before they can vote.
Georgia’s citizenship verification process was actually produced with the help of the DOJ. In a six-page letter released yesterday, DOJ lawyers said Handel’s office had created a system that “does not produce accurate and reliable information and that thousands of citizens who are in fact eligible to vote under Georgia law have been flagged.”
From Georgia Secretary of State office:
“DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists. DOJ completely disregarded Georgia’s obvious and direct interest in preventing non-citizens from voting, instead siding with the ACLU and MALDEF. Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy.
It should be noted that not one single voter in the entire state claimed they could not vote because of the verification process.
This should come as no surprise as the Obama administration is merely working to insure the 495,000 illegal aliens living in Georgia can vote for him come 2012.
A release from Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel is below the fold.
“Senators also defeated a measure that would have permitted law enforcement officers to question individuals about their immigration status if they had probable cause to believe that they might be in the U.S. illegally.”
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A federal judge on Wednesday blocked some of the toughest provisions in the Arizona immigration law, putting on hold the state’s attempt to enforce federal immigration policy.
The census is on it’s way next year, and the democrats are hoping to count each and every illegal alien in the country. It may be a bit harder with ACORN out of the picture, but it seems Tom Henry is stepping in where ACORN was pushed out.
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