Well the Supreme Court is starting to pop out some of those
momentous decisions on important issues of the day.
Immigration policy has been a hot potato between states like
Arizona and
Obama’s federal claims. Arizona and its
interesting looking governor, Jan Brewer, were all for tough standards since
they, as a state, have to contend with BIG immigration issues…just look at Arizona ’s border with Mexico .
Obama argued that immigration law and policy is a federal
matter and not a state matter so Arizona
had no rights to deal with illegals.
Arizona had a great retort to Obama saying since the federal
government has chosen to do NOTHING ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, we as a state
are forced to address the issue…makes sense to me.
The court did not split down the great conservative /
liberal divide as is often the case but the really radical right-wingers
(Scalia, Alito & Thomas) who pretend to interpret the Constitution but
really just vote their obvious biases, said whatever Arizona wants to do is
fine with them.
Thankfully (or not) cooler heads prevailed including that of
swing voter extraordinaire Anthony Kennedy and left immigration policy and
regulation to the federal government since it is the federal government that is
in charge of our borders even though Congress cannot decide what the hell to do
with those borders.
Federal immigration law such as punishing employers for
hiring illegals supersedes any state laws that make illegals looking for
employment a crime.
The one big issue in the Arizona law was allowing state
troopers to stop (read profile) people and ask for proof of citizenship or
immigration papers (Gestapo tactics). The Supreme Court’s decision does not
prohibit state troopers from stopping illegal immigrants; it prohibits them
from arresting them since Arizona
cannot make laws punishing illegals…get it?
Once the state trooper stops an illegal he is to call the
Federales to handle the situation…really? How in the hell is that going to
work?
In other words, this issue is not over by a long shot;
expect more suits to be filed.
This issue could be put to rest if Congress would just
decide on a comprehensive immigration policy but that ain’t gonna happen any
time soon because it is all about politics and we are in an election year as
you know and immigration remains a hot potato.
Romney once touted his SELF-DEPORTATION policy which means
deny illegals everything so they will be forced to leave or self-deport…and now
he just says he will do something…maybe. Obama is just pandering for Latino
votes so he is throwing out executive orders that will allow young people that
came here illegally when they were young, to delay their deportation if they
register with the government…good luck with that one…who in the hell will
register?
All I have to say is…WHAT A MESS…
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