A federal judge has granted an injunction blocking enforcement of parts of a controversial immigration law in Arizona that is scheduled to go into effect Thursday.
So is a 21st Century Fort Sumter coming down the pike?
UPDATE: I took a quick read-through of the decision to find out the specific parts of the law which are blocked.
The judge’s ruling preliminarily enjoins Arizona from enforcing four provisions of the law:
A.R.S. § 11-1051(B) – Law enforcement determining immigration status of persons stopped, detained, or under arrest;
A.R.S. § 13-1509- “creating a crime for the failure to apply for or carry alien registration papers”;
A.R.S. § 13-2928(C)- “creating a crime for an unauthorized alien to solicit, apply for, or perform work”;
A.R.S. § 13-3883(A)(5) “authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person where there is probable cause to believe the person has committed a public offense that makes the person removable from the United States”.
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p>What do those not insignificant independent nations called Indian reservations do? Stick with Arizona?
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p>I don’t think so.
Where does that come from?
but at least some aspects of the new law will go into action.
as in Tennessee or Arizona, we need to ask Gene Lyons’ question…
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p>Doesn’t that mean the University of Tennessee (or Arizona) is no longer eligible to compete in the NCAA?
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p>Why do Republicans want to keep the Volunteers and Wildcats out of bowl games?
There’s no reason why they wouldn’t be eligible. The NCAA is a member’s organization — they could change the rules to allow UT or AU to compete.
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p>Of course, the real question is: how will UT or AU survive without the tremendous amount of funding for research and scholarships provided by the US gov’t. Furthermore, now the students from Tenn or AZ applying to US schools for graduate school will find that they’re not eligible for US scholarships.
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p>All of this is moot. There was a minor incident in the 1860s which suggest that maybe seceding isn’t going to be permitted.
Although I think that most of the law was ridiculous, particularly the part which seemed to empower police officers to check the immigration status of people that were suspected of committing a crime (and I believe that one such crime would simply be being in this country illegally), I think that this ruling goes a little bit too far.
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p>I do not favor people’s status being randomly checked, and in fact I support the idea of increasing immigration quotas to make less people “illegal”. However, I think that a state should be able to check the immigration status of someone arrested for a crime — though I recognize that this could lead to trumping up charges just to check immigration status.
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p>There must be some ground where someone’s status can be checked and this person deported if they are found to be in this country illegally. I don’t favor mass deportations (which would be impractical), but doesn’t deporting persons arrested — or at least convicted — make some sense? Without any enforcement whatsoever, then we do in fact have open borders.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm of Homeland Security has the authority to stop, question, and detain anyone within 100 miles of any U.S. border. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are U.S. borders, and two-thirds of the population lives within the border zone. If you are detained, ICE can hold you indefinitely, and is not required to give your attorney access, or to tell anyone where you are being held. There have been instances of native-born citizens being deported to countries they’ve never seen before.
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p>The problem is not that there is “no enforcement whatsoever.” The problem is that immigration is not the problem; it’s a massive straw man.
There have been instances of native-born citizens being deported to countries they’ve never seen before.
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p>Can you provide some examples/cites? I’ve heard this “100 mile” thing before, but don’t have a reliable source…
you can do your own research from there. ACLU v. 100 mile zone.
Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida and DC are entirely within that zone. A tiny sliver of VT, MA, and MD ensure that some portions of those states are outside of this 100 mile buffer.