news:HsednfhMWYDapXPS...@giganews.com:
> RD Sandman wrote:
>> deadrat <
a...@b.com> wrote in
>>>> deadrat <
a...@b.com> wrote in
>>>>>> deadrat <
a...@b.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>> "RD Sandman" <rdsandman[spamremove]@
comcast.net> wrote in
>>>>>>>> message news:XnsA08099E46...@216.196.121.131...
>>>>>>>>> "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are DEADLY PSYCHOPATHS"
>>>>>>>>>> On Jun 28, 4:09 am, "Ramon F. Herrera" <
ra...@conexus.net>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> "Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., an iconic figure to many
>>>>>>>>>>> conservatives, sided with the court's liberals to reject
>>>>>>>>>>> several
>>>>>> key
>>>>>>>>>>> provisions in the law and even declare that as a "general
>>>>>>>>>>> rule, it
>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>>>> not a crime for a removable alien to remain present in the
>>>>>>>>>>> United States."
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It is when a state makes it a crime.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm sorry to inform you that someone in the country illegally
>>>>>>>>> is NOT
>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>>> state crime.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> No, but when that person is in the state illegally is certainly
>>>>>>>> is.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is pretty much the point. You can't be in a state
>>>>>>> illegally.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You most certainly can and some of those will be handled by the
>>>>>> feds. Many will not. The state can arrest them and turn them
>>>>>> over to the feds.
>>>>>> From there it is a federal problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe this is just semantics, but there's no law against being in
>>>>> Arizona illegally apart from being in the United States illegally.
>>>>
>>>> Correct. There is no state law in Arizona defining illegal
>>>> residing in the state.
>>>>
>>>>> People who haven't done anything illegal get arrested all the
>>>>> time, so AZ's arrest policy doesn't make being in Arizona a state
>>>>> crime. It's a federal problem all the way down.
>>>>
>>>> If you were trying to say that it is not a state crime to be there
>>>> illegally, you would have been correct. That isn't the way I took
>>>> your sentence to read.
>>>>
>>>>>>>> Besides....I'm unaware that in any other area states are
>>>>>>>> prohibited
>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>> enforcing federal law.
>>>>>>>
This was purely a case of Arizona not being satisfied with the federal
handling of illegals.
> First they saw a problem with their state law.
Oh, which law was that?
They corrected that
> problem by making a state law that they could enforce that would
> correct, or help correct it.
When they wrote SB1070, they knew it would get federal attention so they
patterned the state law to parallel the federal law with most of the same
words in it. The Supremes just told Arizona that they couldn't do that.
Immigration was a federal problem, not a state one so the state could not
make it a state crime.
Then the feds stepped in and said, "you
> can't do that." So what is Arizonaq to do? They have a problem, the
> feds won;t do their job and correct the problem, and the feds won;t
> even let Arizonas make a law the enforcement of which will help fixd
> the problem.
Perhaps, but as Justice Marshall said in McCulloch v Maryland - 4 Wheat
(17 US) 316 (1819) said there could be no doubt "that the government of
the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of
action." One of those spheres is immigration.
If I were running things, I would establish an indefinite
> holidy for all Arizona state employees. They would all just walk away
> from their jobs and leave the state to its own devices.
In some cases, it seems that the state is already doing that. ;O
If Obama
> wanted to help, he would have to send in federal employees to take
> over the runnjing of the state. As it is, they are in between a rock
> and a hard place. Obama and his policies are forcing them out of
> busoness..... For those of you who think Arizona was wrong, what is
> your solution to the problem? Just what do you think Arizona should
> do?
Nothing. I don't think Arizona is the problem, the federal government is
by doing nothing about illegal immigration or sanctuary cities.
I do, however, think the DREAM Act is the right thing to do as a first
step. I agree with Obama's EO, but not why or how it was done.