Obama To Undermine Supreme Court

OBAMA TO UNDERMINE SUPREME COURT RULING

URGENT: The Supreme Court issued a split decision ruling in support of Arizona’s immigration crackdown allowing the state’s law enforcement officials to ask immigration status of those arrested on other charges while striking down three other provisions of the now infamous law SB1070.

Within hours of the split Supreme Court decision to allow Arizona law enforcement officers to check the immigration status of individuals first detained for other reasons, the Obama administration is fighting back against the rule of law.

The ability of law enforcement officers to detain folks is THE most important part of the entire law and by upholding this provision, the Justices gave Arizona the teeth it needs to enforce federal immigration law with or without the help of the feds.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer responded to the court’s ruling, calling it a “legal victory” for the rule of law and that “every law, including those against both illegal immigration and racial profiling” will be enforced. Gov. Brewer has recently issued a new Executive Order asking that special training for the Constitutional enforcement of Arizona’s SB1070 be provided to all of Arizona’s law enforcement officers

Make no mistake – this is a victory for Sheriff Joe just as it is for Gov. Brewer and the entire state of Arizona. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his officers can keep doing what they are doing – standing up for U.S. Citizens and enforcing immigration law while Obama flounders amidst plummeting approval ratings.

Barack Obama may think he is being clever (and the mainstream media undoubtedly will think so as well) in his blatant attempt to sabotage the state’s decision to enforce federal immigration law, but if anything, Obama is playing right into the capable hands of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio when it comes to enforcing immigration law.

Obama has childishly suspended the program known as 287(g) to his own demise. The program, which allows local authorities to make immigration-based arrests and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to those reported up for deportation, was suspended by this over-bloated administration in the hopes of forcing local police to rely on federal officials to make immigration-based arrests.

To take it one step further, under Obama’s orders, ICE will not respond to calls from Arizona when it reports illegal immigrants unless the person in question is wanted for a felony.

Sheriff Joe and all other Arizona law enforcement can keep enforcing immigration law while detained illegal immigrants have no idea how long they’re gonna sit in detention (likely in Sheriff Joe’s tent city in 100+ degree heat). After all, local law enforcement cannot actually deport illegal immigrants back across the southern border or elsewhere, but they CAN hold them for federal processing…

Obama and his right-hand man Attorney General Eric Holder will denounce Sheriff Joe’s enforcement of immigration law as racist even though more and more illegal immigrants are coming in from China than from Mexico. That’s where you and I come in.

Obama and Holder are going to try to use Sheriff Joe as a distraction from the Fast & Furious scandal. No matter how hard they try, we aren’t going to let this administration hide behind the public relations banner proclaiming it will “life the shadow of deportation” from illegal immigrants while ignoring or otherwise going around existing federal immigration law.

Pro-Amnesty lobbyists are already working ‘fast and furious’ as they prepare new litigation tactics to intimidate Arizona following their loss at the Supreme Court.

That’s why we must act right now to show our continued support for the State of Arizona, the enforcement of immigration law, and the security of our sovereign borders against illegal immigration.

Supreme Court Gives Green Light

Supreme Court gives states a green light to follow Arizona's lead on immigration

By Roy Beck, Monday, June 25, 2012

In all the analysis of whether Arizona or Pres. Obama came out on top in the Supreme Courts ruling on S.B. 1070 today, the key question is: how well did unemployed Americans fare?

And the answer is: Very well.

Combined with another Court ruling on an Arizona law last year, states now have all the legal room they need to pursue attrition-through-enforcement measures that cause illegal aliens to depart from a state, opening up jobs for unemployed Americans and legal immigrants.

Although headlines have focused on the court knocking down three of four provisions before it, it should be noted that S.B. 1070 began with 14 sections. After all the challenges at several court levels, 11 of those sections are still standing and the court today ruled against only half of the twelfth. The one that was cleared today by the Court was the right of police to question people about their immigration status. This may be the most important provision in causing illegal aliens to leave Arizona, judging by the frenzy of concerned reaction by the pro-amnesty forces and the Obama administration.

We have always regarded S.B. 1070 as supplementary to the far more important, earlier Arizona bill that requires every employer to use E-Verify to keep illegal aliens and tourists from taking jobs. The Obama administration also opposed this effort, but the Court last year entirely upheld the right of states to protect its workers in that way.

Combining the two rulings, Arizona now has the Supreme Court-approved model to show all other states that they dont have to sit idly by while an estimated 7 million illegal aliens take U.S. jobs in construction, manufacturing, service, transportation and even some in the professions. These are the occupations where most of the 20 million Americans who are unemployed or forced into part-time work are also seeking a job.

Since 1986, the prevailing theory about illegal immigration in Washington has been one of inevitability that nothing can be done to cause illegal aliens to leave once they get into the country. Hence, Congress passed seven amnesties between 1986 and 2000.

Now, Arizona and presumably a number of other states can be full-effort laboratories to prove inevitability a false theory.

We are heartened that even in writing the majority opinion that blocked three parts of Arizonas law, Justice Kennedy recognized that decisions by three straight presidents to significantly ignore federal immigration law have put states in a bind.

"The pervasiveness of federal regulation does not diminish the importance of immigration policy to the States," he wrote. "Arizona bears many of the consequences of unlawful immigration. . . . Statistics alone do not capture the full extent of Arizonas concerns. Accounts in the record suggest there is an epidemic of crime, safety risks, serious property damage, and environmental problems associated with the influx of illegal migration across private land near the Mexican border."

In his dissent, Justice Scalia was much more specific, citing the Obama administrations announcement just two weeks ago that it would refuse to enforce the law against illegal aliens who would benefit from the DREAM Act amnesty that Congress has rejected three times.

"After this case was argued and while it was under consideration," Scalia wrote, "the Secretary of Homeland Security announced a program exempting from immigration enforcement some 1.4 million illegal immigrants under the age of 30.

"The president said at a news conference that the new program is 'the right thing to do' in light of Congresss failure to pass the Administrations proposed revision of the Immigration Act. Perhaps it is, though Arizona may not think so. But to say, as the Court (majority) does, that Arizona contradicts federal by enforcing application of the Immigration Act that the President declines to enforce boggles the mind."

As if to underscore Scalias assessment of the current administration as a nullifier of congressionally-passed laws, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano only hours after the ruling, announced that she would suspend yet another enforcement required under federal immigration laws. Because the Court ruling will result in a lot more illegal aliens being brought to the attention of the feds, she said, her department will suspend the 287(g) program in Arizona, and pledged that nothing in the ruling will interfere with the administrative amnesty announced last week.

Fortunately, all states now have a bright green light from the Court to follow Arizonas lead in enforcing the laws in the way that Congress intended, even if the president insists on violating those laws.

(This analysis originally appeared as an op-ed on FoxNews.com)