Texas, Others Watching Hearings on Immigration Law
Updated, 3:30 p.m.
Early reports coming from the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing on Arizona’s immigration-enforcement law indicate that even the court’s more liberal justices appeared skeptical of the argument that the state of Arizona should not be allowed to question the immigration status of people detained by law enforcement.
The Associated Press reported that early on, the eight justices hearing the case “strongly suggested that they are ready to allow Arizona to enforce part of a controversial state law requiring police officers to check the immigration status of people they think are in the ...
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gypsy314 ne
Looks like the rhinos and democrats illegal aliens votes may go away. I say start self deportation and do not let them leave there children behind. I no in this country leaving your children behind is against the law.
So lets get the ball rolling.
Kevin Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That's a lie, Charlie.
There is zero evidence that any profiling of Latino's has occurred - in fact, SB1070 specifically requires that inquiry into somebody's immigration status only happens AFTER they've been stopped for another violation.
Try again, but try the truth next time.
Adele Roberson
The madman Sheriff Arapaio from Arizona made a speech to The Texans for Immigration Reform
a few months ago. Now a tape has surfaced.
Arapaio told his audience at that time that when he found out he was being investigated by the Feds he ordered the arrest of five hundred Hispanics.... JUST IN SPITE.
Such is the honor among people who listen and approve of this idiot. Those that invite him to make speeches at their events and those in Arizona who still supporft him.
And that also goes for Mitt Romney who said last week that Arizonas immigration laws are THE MODEL for the rest of this country.
Brittanicus
Just Yesterday in a immigration Senate hearing the only witness defending SB 1070 was its author, former state Sen. Russell Pearce, who was ejected last year in an Arizona recall election. He stated to the obvious hostile crowd, "I have been in public service most of my life and I have seen the real costs and damage caused by the presence of illegal aliens in our country. In Arizona alone, the annual cost of illegal immigration is approximately $2.6 billion”. Democratic Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said on Tuesday if the Supreme Court upholds Arizona's law, he will introduce legislation that prevents state and local authorities from enforcing their own immigration regulations. THESE TWO SENATORS NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE AS THEY DON’T CARE THAT TAXPAYERS ARE PAYING THE ULTIMATE PRICE IN DOLLARS? This would be the perfect storm to eject all the Democratic Senators, and their thrall of hard core Liberals out of Washington. These types of Senators are the cause of illegal immigration is thriving. The Democrats are either completely oblivious, to the strain on state treasures or they have another reason such as to accumulate illegal votes in November from non citizens. These Politicians seem unconcerned about the $113 billion dollars extorted from our taxes for illegal alien welfare annually.
The recent poll about the Arizona's Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, SB 1070 shows:
• 65% of voters favor the law, while 31% oppose it.
• 84% of Republicans favor Arizona’s law, while 46% of Democrats do. A 51% majority of Democrats opposes the law.
• Independents favor the law by a 40 percentage-point margin, 67% in favor, 27% in opposition.
• 72% of voters who live in the West and 69% of voters who live in the Midwest approve of the Arizona immigration law, compared to 61% of voters who live in other regions of the country.
Today the U.S. High Court will hear Arizona vs. United States and its resistance to the incredible harassment of its policing statutes by the Department of Justice. SCOTUS will either, uphold S.B 1070 for this small defenseless border state, whose deficit was a monstrous 2.7 Billion dollars in 2009 or fall fail to the incompetent DOJ. In Obama administration dispute that only the federal government, not states, has the right to set immigration policy. Saying Arizona cannot enforce immigration laws that are in conflict with federal laws. The only problem with that as most of Americans sees it, all prior administrations and Obama’s lot have dragged their feet. There are still hundreds of miles of nothing more than a few sensors and some rusty barbed wire. The President originally did set goals for the removal of foreign nationals and did so with great fervor. But later has altered his requirement with adding special preferences, allowing many illegal aliens waivers. This is not how enforcement is supposed to work, as anybody here without a current visa or just crossed the border fence illegally, should be deported?
Arizona is not the only state under considerable stress by forced unfunded mandates from the courts, which sees no problem in stealing your taxes to pay for privileged entitlements, granted to anybody who can dodge the Border Patrol or impersonate a tourist to get past the agents at customs in airline terminals. Just Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Indiana, South Carolina have had the guts to defend their state rights against the invasion, but are watching the Arizona court case with great optimism. Illegal immigration is NOT a victimless crime, as it is heavily associated with voter fraud, ID theft and has imported into this country murderers, drunk hit and runs, home invasion, child molesters, drug dealers, assaults, burglaries and other criminal acts. Our prison and detention centers are overloaded with foreign nationals, as well as our welfare system. Is it now wonder that Arizona finally had enough and enacting laws to remove the dregs that have come here? Its just poetic justice that States unchecked with illegal immigrants is now complaining, that fugitive from Arizona is fleeing to their states where they must cater to their needs.
No administration or its predecessors have secured the border fence. Both political parties have failed miserably to protect this country from the illegal alien occupation. Additionally the American voter must drive, track and use the severe pressure of their vote to verbally intimidate every Republican, Democrat and Liberal, informing them that they will unseat them. It is imperative that whatever the outcome of the Arizona court conflict, is to force passage of E-Verify. E-Verify mandated law would authenticate whether somebody can get employment or not? Other persons flagged will have the choice of clearing up their problem with the Social Security administration near them?
Voters must demand from GOP John Boehner, to stop blocking the bipartisan E-Verify “THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT” from being introduced in Congress by Texas Senator Lamar Smith. Taxpayers are continuously suffering at the hands of corrupt politicians who have sold us into financial slavery by allowing illegal immigration to persist almost unopposed in coming here. 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? Not just the bad politicians should be thrown out of office, but state Governors, Mayors, Judges and all elected officials, and substitute 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.
The consequences of pregnant females smuggled across our border, who fly in just to take advantage of the U.S. unfunded mandates laws for hospital delivery. Don’t know who to call in Washington, and then phone 202-224-3121? The switchboard will connect you with your Representative aid? Every prospective contender would be well advised to read the immigration sullen statistics advanced by “The Heritage Foundation”. According to American Federation of Immigration Reform (FAIR) there is a 2.5 Trillion dollars price tag to legitimize the 20 million plus Illegal’s who have settled here? All patriotic Americans should locate your local TEA PARTY chapter. The Tea Party is the people’s party and it welcomes every citizen and lawful resident who came to America legally. On the American Patrol website, covers the illegal alien issue, but a daily helping of the e-media from the National media, revealing everything that is against “the Rule of law’ and the sovereignty of this nation, constantly broken by Obama people.
Not that American citizens’ have any faith in what the U.S. government tells us? I, myself prefer to listen to people who live along the border region and have to deal with the drug dealers, smugglers of all type and the terrorist that mean to do us harm. WASHINGTON D.C. TELLS US WHAT THE PUBLIC WANT TO HEAR? The populace of the U.S. has been lied to so much by those empowered now, that includes both political parties. That nothing that comes out of either of their mouths is at all trustworthy? Just look at the ‘Solyndra’ and gun running scandal and the unaccountable dollars spent for leisure by General Services administration. Personally I don’t trust any of them, therefore telling us the numbers of illegal aliens entry numbers are way down, can be taken with a pinch of salt? Many foreign nationals may have left, but what about the estimated 20 million plus, still squatting here. Are we not still paying for their ‘Foothold’ baby—that’s not peanuts? Taxpayers are nothing more than ‘beasts of burden’ for the rest of the world, who are continuously asked to give more..?
Readers should type in any keyword that you desire, such as ID theft, Voter fraud, illegal alien welfare costs, Chain Migration, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Amnesty, Sanctuary City, Birthright Citizenship, to name just a few things in Internet search engines and you will be physically sick of the cover-ups the Left and Democrats keep out of the public eye.
If the High Court grants approval to Arizona in enforcing its policing statutes, then California better have control posts on their state border? As hundreds of thousand or even millions of illegal aliens are going to be fleeing to other states and not just to adjoining states, but any state that is pampering illegal aliens. I don't want my taxes paying for illegal alien welfare anymore, that’s why I joined the Monolithic TEA PARTY.
JC DemocratofTejas
Blah blah blah...WHERE IS YOUR NEWS THAT GREG ABBOTT GAVE OUT MILLIONS OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS OF TEXANS IN HIS EFFORT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST VOTERS, AND PUSH VOTER IDS??? WHY ISN'T THIS BIG NEW TO THE TRIBUNE??
Abbott should be disbarred and removed from office.
"Abbott Exposes Millions of Texans’ Social Security Numbers
AG releases file containing over 13 million Texas SS numbers.
Misuse avoided only by vigilance of opposing counsel.
A legal brief filed by opponents of the Texas Voter Photo ID law reveals that Attorney General Greg Abbott exposed millions of Texas voters’ full Social Security numbers to possible theft and abuse.
The brief, filed Monday, April 23, 2012 states:
“… after vigorously fighting the production of data containing full Social Security numbers, Texas mistakenly produced to Intervenors data from the VR [voter registration] data base that contained full Social Security numbers.” ( Defendant-Intervenors’ Motion for Clarification of the Trial Schedule, 4/23/12, page seven.)
Texas voters escaped public release of their Social Security numbers only because of the vigilance of conscientious lawyers working against the Voter Photo ID bill. Rather than attach the files to documents circulated to other attorneys or expose them to access by the general public, opposing counsel immediately notified the AG’s office of the bungled release of private data. Abbott then, at the expense of Texas taxpayers, sent a courier to both New York and Washington, DC to retrieve the files. As the brief details:
“Intervenors immediately notified the State and, at the State’s request, Intervenors ceased all review of the VR data that had been provided, with the State sending a representative from Texas to collect the VR data disks personally.” (Defendant-Intervenors’ Motion for Clarification of the Trial Schedule, 4/23/12, page seven.)
Abbott’s negligence constitutes one of the largest risks of public identity theft in recent memory. Last year, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs received bitter criticism for releasing the Social Security numbers of 3.5 million Texans. In this most recent case, had the files not been handled carefully and responsibly by legal counsel opposing Abbott, as many as 13 million Texas voters’ Social Security numbers could have been exposed to potential illegal misuse and identity theft."
Anya Khan
Adele, you are either ignorant of facts or dishonest.; There were no 500 arrest for spite. Just making things up does not help the democratic party. If any Texas Dems have a chance at being elected, being associated with disingenuous comments like yours are going to hurt them.