'Sheriff Joe' challenges Obama in court
40% of Federal Criminal Cases in 2013 Were
in Districts on Mexican Border
more here:in Districts on Mexican Border
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A federal judge on Monday appeared highly skeptical of a lawsuit from Sheriff Joe Arpaio that challenges the constitutionality of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
After listening to an hour of oral arguments, District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell said she was not prepared to rule on the case the same day. Her opinion on whether to block Obama’s action, she said, would come “very shortly.”
The lawsuit from Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., is the first federal challenge against Obama’s move to shield up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation.Arpaio, the immigration hard-liner and self-proclaimed “America’s toughest sheriff,” did not appear in the D.C. court. But his attorney, Larry Klayman, the founder of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, argued that Obama had overstepped his authority and that his actions violated the separation of powers.
“This is not a question about immigration enforcement. It’s a question about the Constitution. It’s a question about whether the president can override Congress,” Klayman said.
The precedent Obama's actions are setting is "terrible," he added. "It's trashing our Constitution.”
Arpaio and his office have been negatively impacted by the executive actions, Klayman argued. The sheriff, who’s unpopular in the immigrant community, could face “bodily harm or death” with more immigrants on the streets. And when federal immigration agents release rather than deport undocumented immigrants, Klayman said, more than a third of them end up back in Maricopa County jails, draining limited resources.
Howell, a former Justice Department official and Senate staffer who was nominated by Obama in 2010, repeatedly interrupted Klayman during his arguments. She said immigrants wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the Obama programs until February at the earliest, and noted that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been deferring some deportations of immigrants for years.
“If Congress doesn’t like it,” the judge said, “doesn’t Congress have the power to step in and address what misappropriation they think is going on here?” she asked.
Trying to halt Obama’s immigration actions will be one of the top priorities for Republicans when they take over both chambers of Congress in January. GOP lawmakers want to pass legislation barring the administration from using funds to implement Obama’s programs, which the president is expected to veto.
That would set up another Republican showdown with Obama at the end of February, when funding for the Homeland Security Department runs out.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other congressional Republicans have indicated they may file their own lawsuit seeking to block Obama’s immigration actions, but other legal challenges are already moving forward.
Earlier this month, Texas and 16 other states filed a lawsuit in federal court against the immigration actions, arguing that Obama was “abdicating his responsibility” to enforce immigration laws. And a federal judge in Pennsylvania, Arthur Schwab, ruled that parts of Obama’s immigration actions were unconstitutional because he decided sentencing for an illegal immigrant who had committed a crime.
Klayman pointed to both of the cases in his arguments. But Howell repeatedly said she found Schwab’s ruling “puzzling” because the case concerned an individual undocumented immigrant — not a direct challenge to Obama’s actions.
“I find it a real puzzle how [Schwab] was able to reach out and find the program unconstitutional when the program didn’t apply to him [the immigrant],” Howell said.
On several occasions, Klayman stressed that the Arpaio suit was not a personal attack on Obama. The two men have quarreled on and off during the past six years.
In 2010, Obama’s Justice Department sued to stop S.B. 1070, Arizona’s tough anti-illegal-immigration law, from taking effect. The law, which was championed by Arpaio, suffered a setback at the Supreme Court as several of its provisions were struck down.
Also during Obama’s first term, the DOJ investigated allegations that Arpaio had abused his power during his two decades in office. But the case was dropped in 2012 and he was never charged.
After listening to an hour of oral arguments, District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell said she was not prepared to rule on the case the same day. Her opinion on whether to block Obama’s action, she said, would come “very shortly.”
“This is not a question about immigration enforcement. It’s a question about the Constitution. It’s a question about whether the president can override Congress,” Klayman said.
The precedent Obama's actions are setting is "terrible," he added. "It's trashing our Constitution.”
Arpaio and his office have been negatively impacted by the executive actions, Klayman argued. The sheriff, who’s unpopular in the immigrant community, could face “bodily harm or death” with more immigrants on the streets. And when federal immigration agents release rather than deport undocumented immigrants, Klayman said, more than a third of them end up back in Maricopa County jails, draining limited resources.
Howell, a former Justice Department official and Senate staffer who was nominated by Obama in 2010, repeatedly interrupted Klayman during his arguments. She said immigrants wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the Obama programs until February at the earliest, and noted that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been deferring some deportations of immigrants for years.
“If Congress doesn’t like it,” the judge said, “doesn’t Congress have the power to step in and address what misappropriation they think is going on here?” she asked.
Trying to halt Obama’s immigration actions will be one of the top priorities for Republicans when they take over both chambers of Congress in January. GOP lawmakers want to pass legislation barring the administration from using funds to implement Obama’s programs, which the president is expected to veto.
That would set up another Republican showdown with Obama at the end of February, when funding for the Homeland Security Department runs out.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other congressional Republicans have indicated they may file their own lawsuit seeking to block Obama’s immigration actions, but other legal challenges are already moving forward.
Earlier this month, Texas and 16 other states filed a lawsuit in federal court against the immigration actions, arguing that Obama was “abdicating his responsibility” to enforce immigration laws. And a federal judge in Pennsylvania, Arthur Schwab, ruled that parts of Obama’s immigration actions were unconstitutional because he decided sentencing for an illegal immigrant who had committed a crime.
Klayman pointed to both of the cases in his arguments. But Howell repeatedly said she found Schwab’s ruling “puzzling” because the case concerned an individual undocumented immigrant — not a direct challenge to Obama’s actions.
“I find it a real puzzle how [Schwab] was able to reach out and find the program unconstitutional when the program didn’t apply to him [the immigrant],” Howell said.
On several occasions, Klayman stressed that the Arpaio suit was not a personal attack on Obama. The two men have quarreled on and off during the past six years.
In 2010, Obama’s Justice Department sued to stop S.B. 1070, Arizona’s tough anti-illegal-immigration law, from taking effect. The law, which was championed by Arpaio, suffered a setback at the Supreme Court as several of its provisions were struck down.
Also during Obama’s first term, the DOJ investigated allegations that Arpaio had abused his power during his two decades in office. But the case was dropped in 2012 and he was never charged.
………..next
to drugs, Mexico’s biggest exports to America is poverty, anchor baby breeders
for welfare and CRIMINALS!
AND
THEY DON’T WANT THEIR CRIMINALS BACK!
Mexico
Asks U.S. To Stop Deporting Serious
Criminals
Other key findings of the report include:
States were only reimbursed for 23% of the cost of incarcerating criminal aliens. (Id. at 37)
*
50% of the criminal aliens in the GAO’s study population were arrested at least once for homicide, a sex offense, kidnapping, robbery, or assault. (Id. at 19)
*
65% of criminal aliens in the GAO’s study population were arrested at least once for an immigration violation. (Id.)
*
As of 2009, Mexico is the country of birth of 70% of SCAAP criminal aliens (again, only a fraction of criminal aliens) in local jails and 66% of SCAAP criminal aliens in state prisons. (Id. at 13-15)
MUCH MORE ON MEXICO’S CRIME WAVE IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS HERE:
LA
RAZA MEXICAN KIDNAPPING OF AMERICANS!
THE LA
RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE SPREADS ACROSS
AMERICA.
AMERICA.
DEPORTATION LIES:
Obama’s conspiracy to surrender to
our borders to Mexico as he fights for the borders of Muslim
dictators over there.
our borders to Mexico as he fights for the borders of Muslim
dictators over there.
DEPORTATION LIES: Obama’s endless lies about
Homeland security as he
sabotages our borders and laws to build the LA RAZA DEM party base of
illegals:
sabotages our borders and laws to build the LA RAZA DEM party base of
illegals:
THE CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY THE
AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS WITH
AMNESTY: Obama’s lies on deportation
AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS WITH
AMNESTY: Obama’s lies on deportation
DHS
GUILTY! OBAMA AND THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE HE INVITES
OBAMA’S CYNICAL JOKE of HOMELAND SECURITY
According to DHS’s own reports, very little of our
nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are
secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department.
nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are
secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department.
Obama’s Promise of Homeland Security
to Americans (Legals) and
his Vow to Illegals of Open and Undefended Borders With
Narcomex
his Vow to Illegals of Open and Undefended Borders With
Narcomex
VIVA LA
RAZA’S INVASION? here they come for our jobs, welfare and obamacare… AND
TO VOTE DEM FOR MORE!
TO VOTE DEM FOR MORE!
"'We're being inundated': Vigilante Group
uses secret cameras to record the flow of
illegal immigrants across the border"
“While the Obama Administration downplays
violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in Texas reveal that
Mexican have transformed parts of the
state into a war zone where shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are
common.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/04/illegals-pouring-over-our-borders-for.html
RASSMUSEN
REPORT:
Gov. Jerry Brown, on a trip to
Mexico, seeks to position California as a more welcoming place for
immigrants... $25 BILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE NOT WELCOMING ENOUGH?!?
THE REAL TERRORISM IN AMERICA IS MEXICAN!
BEHEADINGS, MURDER, RAPE... and then go breed anchor babies for
welfare… this is the CALIFORNIA the Democrat party has built for Mexico.
Prosecutors
say Estrada was one of the top two figures in Los Palillos, or the Toothpicks,
a breakaway cell from the Arellano Felix cartel that established a foothold in
the U.S.
But
if immigration reform legislation passes, just nine
percent (9%) believe it is Very Likely the federal
government will actually try to secure the border.
That’s an important point because, even among
supporters of comprehensive reform, 64% think
border security should come before legalizing the
status of those here illegally.
percent (9%) believe it is Very Likely the federal
government will actually try to secure the border.
That’s an important point because, even among
supporters of comprehensive reform, 64% think
border security should come before legalizing the
status of those here illegally.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
It proves the Obama administration is willing to go to any extent
- including gaming the courts - to continue stonewalling the full story of its
lawless release of illegal aliens. Now, with the prison floodgates being thrown
open to illegal aliens under the phony pretense of abiding by sequester cuts,
it is more important that details of this threat to the public safety be
revealed.
HORDES
BY THE TENS OF THOUSANDS JUMP OUR
BORDERS IN RESPONSE TO OBAMA’S INVITATION.
BORDERS IN RESPONSE TO OBAMA’S INVITATION.
SOARING
WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS… soaring poverty for America’s once middle class.
It’s OBAMANOMICS AT WORK
It’s OBAMANOMICS AT WORK
OBAMA’S VOW TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY TO BUILD
THE DEMS’ LA RAZA PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS and keep wages DEPRESSED.
(CNSNews.com) -- In 2011, nearly
three years before the current wave of more than 227,000 illegal aliens flooded
the U.S.-Mexico border, the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) warned the
federal government that the U.S. border “can easily be breached on foot” by
criminal aliens and Mexican drug cartels, who smuggle billions of dollars worth
of illicit drugs into the United States each year.
EVEN MORE HERE…
AND THEN AT YOUR
FRONT DOOR NEXT!
FRONT DOOR NEXT!
We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that
promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New
Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico.
THE LA RAZA MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE half the prison
population in CA and half the murders are by MEXICANS
40% of Federal Criminal Cases in 2013 Were
in Districts on Mexican Border
in Districts on Mexican Border
We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that
promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New
Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico.
TOP – MEX DRUNK DRIVER MURDERS FAMILY
LA RAZA MURDERING MEXICANS… really want AMNESTY?
And for others, it
means exemption from even immigration law itself. Take the case of Cinthya
Garcia-Cisneros, part of Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
program. After being convicted of two felony hit-and-run deaths in Oregon, she
received probation. The government then dropped its immigration action against
her. She's now free and eligible for both a work permit and a Social Security
number.
SABOTAGE of AMERICAN BORDERS BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA as he
squanders billions defending the borders of Muslim dictators.
THE LA RAZA MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE half the prison
population in CA and half the murders are by MEXICANS
40% of Federal Criminal Cases in 2013 Were in Districts
on Mexican Border
LA RAZA MEX GANGS POUR OVER OUR BORDERS WITH CHILDREN
AMERICAN’S FIGHTING
OBAMA’S FORCED LA RAZA OCCUPATION:
Patriots in Murrieta,
CA Fight Obama’s Alien Invasion
The Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence Center
(NGIC) claims that Latino street gangs like the MS-13 are responsible for the
majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most
illicit drugs.
JUDICIAL WATCH
Mexican criminals swarm America’s open and undefended
borders
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