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Supreme Court strikes down much of Arizona’s immigration law
The court lets stand a provision allowing police to check suspects' immigration status
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected much of Arizona’s immigration law, including a ruling that Arizona police cannot arrest someone based solely on suspicion they are in the country illegally. But, the court let stand part of the law that requires police to check the immigration status of someone they stop or detain for some other offense, if there is “reasonable suspicion” the person is in the country illegally, according to The Washington Post. The...
I find it amazing that NALEO
I find it amazing that NALEO thinks being undocumented or deportable (i.e. an illegal alien) is not criminalized from the very start. Perhaps that is why there is a big push to make the term “illegal” a derogatory racial term when in fact it is a factual and accurate description of a person’s violation of immigration law, not a descriptor of their ethnic category. Illegals come from all nations, including Europe, Asia and Canada, and ethnic groups. The whole racial epithet effort is a red herring to damage and demonize those opposing amnesty or hands off treatment of illegal immigrants who violated Federal law by crossing the U.S. border without permission. They must be deported back to their home nation. Regardless of how long they have been here. There is no statute of limitations on illegal entry or the requirement to deport illegals. No matter what country the illegal alien is from.
Try migrating the other way
Try migrating the other way and see what happens. I always
thought that power is granted by the states to the federal
government, not the other way around. The states need to be
free to regulate cross border traffic especially those states
along the international borders. Since the federal government
is welcoming illegals with open arms, though we can’t afford
them, then it is incumbent on states like Arizona to uphold
immigration laws.
The costs; tangible and
The costs; tangible and otherwise, resulting from illegal immigration are paid by whom?
If the Federal government pays, then it has a right to make the law.
Otherwise, should not the State in which the illegal immigrant resides have jurisdiction?