Obama Administration Challenges
Arizona E-Verify Law
The
Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to strike down a 2007 Arizona law that punishes employers who
hire illegal aliens, a law enacted by then-Governor Janet Napolitano. (Solicitor
General's Amicus Curiae Brief). Called the “Legal Arizona Workers Act,” the law
requires all employers in Arizona to use E-Verify and provides that the
business licenses of those who hire illegal workers shall be repealed.
From the date of enactment, the Chamber of Commerce and other special interest
groups have been trying to undo it, attacking it through a failed ballot
initiative and also through a lawsuit. Now the Chamber is asking the United
States Supreme Court to hear the case (Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria),
and the Obama Administration is weighing in against the law.
To
date, Arizona’s E-Verify law has been upheld by all lower courts, including the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Ninth Circuit, in particular, viewed it as
an exercise of a state’s traditional power to regulate businesses. (San Francisco
Chronicle,
June 2, 2010). Obama’s Justice Department, however, disagrees. Acting
Solicitor General Neal Katyal said in his filing with the Supreme Court that
the lower courts were wrong to uphold the statute because federal immigration
law expressly preempts any state law imposing sanctions on employers hiring
illegal immigrants. Mr. Katyal argues that this is not a licensing law,
but “a statute that prohibits the hiring of unauthorized aliens and uses
suspension and revocation of all state-issued licenses as its ultimate
sanction.” (Solicitor
General's Amicus Curiae Brief, p. 10). This is the administration’s first court
challenge to a state’s authority to act against illegal immigration, and could
be a preview of the battle brewing over Arizona’s recent illegal immigration
crackdown through SB 1070.
Napolitano
has made no comment on the Department of Justice’s decision to challenge the
2007 law, but federal officials said that she has taken an active part in the
debate over whether to do so. (Politico, May 28, 2010).
As Governor of Arizona, Napolitano said she believed the state law was valid
and became a defendant in the many lawsuits against it. (Id.).
OBAMA’S AMERICA: Open & Undefended Borders!
“What we're seeing is our
Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them.
Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens
now have more rights and privileges than Americans. If you are an illegal
alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or insurance. You may obtain
medical care without paying. You may work without paying taxes. Your children
enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying Americans.”
* Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant
workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures
released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and
convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50
percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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Obama Quietly Erasing Borders
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OBAMA
AND THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA
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