Justice Department Sues Arizona for Immigration Law — But Does Not Make Charges of “Discrimination”

too bad they don’t spend the resources and time at securing the border, instead of moving forward with this ridiculous lawsuit.

“The states are not permitted to set their own independent immigration policies, with varying and potentially conflicting enforcement systems and priorities.”
So asking someone lawfully detained about their immigration status is akin to setting immigration policy?
Can’t wait to see a judge admonish and ridicule the DOJ on this one.

Suing AZ for trying to protect themselves and for doing the job the feds won’t do.
Holder thinks the AZ law is racist, but he drops a case against Black Panthers who were intimidating white voters?
Who is the coward when it comes to race Mr. Holder?

UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE…
Obama VS America

Is this the same DOJ that had no problem with the two bat wielding black panthers infront of the Philadelphia voting station last election day?

The Democrats will oppose the public will on immigration, because they seek to make it impossible to oppose them in elections, by making Mexicans a powerful voting block for the Democrats……legal or illegal.

@sarainitaly ‘too bad they don’t spend the resources and time at securing the border, instead of moving forward with this ridiculous lawsuit.’
EXACTLY! but y’know ‘it can’t be done’ Obama says…but lawsuits? well, that’s something they know how to do…sue AZ, sue BP…well @ least lawyers are making money in this administration…the rest? not so much…

freedom: “I agree with this lawsuit. If Jan Brewer thinks the federal government has abdicated its responsibility at the border, then she should sue the federal government, not turn Arizona into a police state.”
A police state? Have you read the federal law? You know, the one that’s decades old? ANYONE can be stopped at ANY TIME for NO REASON AT ALL and be asked for immigration status by federal authorities.
The Arizona law is actually more lax than the federal law since law enforcement must first have “lawful contact” with someone before they can attempt to determine immigration status.
The problem, of course, is that the federal government refuses to enforce its own laws, putting US citizens at risk. So states are doing what they have to do.

Yes,green goddess,don’t enforce the immigration laws-how could the Oregon fruit industry survive without the 50 cent a day illegal worker brought up in semis?

GG- sounds more like a three legged race than a three legged stool to me… What’s at the finish line of this mad dash? Red shirted community organizers with voter registration cards and purple shirted members of the SEIU.

Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice is calling this suit a “Waste of Taxpayer Funds.” I agree!

Planning on taking our annual six figure retirement pension OUT OF CALIFORNIA in the future, as well as most of our social circle, and moving to Arizona/Nevada where the rule of law is just that THE RULE OF LAW Just hope we get out in time, before the BIG ONE HITS, ECONOMIC COLLASPE…SEE YA CALIFORNIA HATE TO BE YA…

Remember only a few months ago, AG Holder made a formal announcement that the captured 9/11 related terrorists will be subjected to civil trial in lower Manhattan. This civil trial is now permanently delayed or canceled after there is huge objection among New Yorkers, including the Dem. politicians. The current AZ law enjoys 70% approval rating in AZ and over 60% nation wide in spite of the wild accusation and attempted boycott from the liberals. If the law suit by Holder goes to the Supreme court, it may well be rejected by 5 to 4.

Since Holder obviously had no problem with the bat weilding black panthers who “stood watch” outside that Philadelphia voting station in 2008, maybe he should just send them, and their fellow members, to the border.

“The filing makes no assertion that the law is discriminatory or risks being applied in a discriminatory fashion, as the president and other officials said they feared would be the case. Interestingly, this suit makes no civil rights charges against the Arizona law”
Yeah, that struck me as odd as well. Their main complaint for months didn’t even get a mention?
Well what do they mention as more severe than discrimination?
“44. Mandatory state alien inspection schemes and attendant federal verification requirements will impermissibly impair and burden the federal resources and activities of DHS.”
It’s against the law to ask the government to do the job they’re legally mandated to do if it would be hard? Really? That’s one of their arguments, that you can’t make them do hard work they’re expected by law to do?
Well consider me persuaded. Asking the government to do anything hard, or burdensome, or difficult is clearly illegal. And letting other people do that work might make them look and feel bad; so ban that too… the work must stay not done if it is difficult.
Yep, persuasive.

Posted by: JDW | Jul 6, 2010 4:29:15 PM
From this day forward – EVERY SINGLE RAPE, MURDER, and DRUNK DRIVING death committed by an illegal alien from Mexico should be laid at the feet of this administration.
—— I agree + THE TERRIBLE DRUG WAR !!! IT WILL POSE A GREAT THREAT TO OUR KIDS!!!!!

divider. joke.

AG Eric Holder and President Obama using the DOJ are determined to start a civil war INSIDE the U.S. borders. They are infringing on MY constitutional rights. I thing WE THE PEOPLE should sue President Obama on behalf of the Constitution. He is inflecting his personal opinion on us and is not doing the job he was elected to do. He is not doing the job that the majority of Americans want him to do. Both men should resign their positions for the good of America.

If the Feds win this, then all federal laws should be ignored.

“Planning on taking our annual six figure retirement pension OUT OF CALIFORNIA in the future, as well as most of our social circle, and moving to Arizona/Nevada where the rule of law is just that THE RULE OF LAW Just hope we get out in time, before the BIG ONE HITS, ECONOMIC COLLASPE…SEE YA CALIFORNIA HATE TO BE YA…”
Pssssst Arizona under right wing leadership has rung up enormous budget deficits because borrowing was preferable to actually raising taxes.
So when confronted with this incompetence in governance, the right wing did what it does best, blame brown people.

Obama is toast… If he keeps on digging a hole…he’ll eventually end up in China.
The people don’t want Democrats OR Republicans anymore… They want Change!

Are you trying to imply that only Brown Skinned People are illegal invaders”
Not that would be GOP Gov of Arizona, who insisted the majority of illegal immigrants were drug mules from Mexico.
She had to be corrected by John mcCain.
Then she claimed the roads were lined with decapitated victims of illegal immigrants.
The problem being that there are no such reported cases.
I saw an episode of Breaking Bad that had a similar circumstance.
Maybe like many other right wingers Brewer has trouble distinguishing reality from TV.

NO SECURE BORDERS NO IMMIGRATION REFORM”
PERIOD.

Obama is right to chalenge this unconstitutional law.
Posted by: freedom
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The SC will determine the law’s Constitutionality in short order. They might even use their ruling to remind the Fed of it’s responsibilities.
As I understand, Anthony Kennedy isn’t a huge Obama fan. At all. So much so that he’s timing his retirement from the SC with Obama’s exit from the WH.
Kennedy will be the deciding vote. ROFLMFAO !!!

Why are Holder and Obama trying so hard to protect criminals.

At this point it might be better to implement a revolving door policy on the border, less expense, less violence..

All the Arizona law does is enforce an old Federal Law signed into Law by President Clinton. If AZ laws in unconstitutional, so is the Federal Law which is still in the books.
People might want to read up on things rather than spew talking points which they have been handed down by websites, talking heads, etc.
AZ has a right, Constitutionally, to protect itself if the Federal Government fails to do so. Furthermore, AZ has the right to enforced Federal Laws. If people have a problem, it should be with the Federal Law signed into Law by Clinton and kept in place by President Obama. But the fact is that this is NOT about helping anyone, this is about the Obama administration playing politics and attempting to get some cheap Hispanic votes.

This is all about vote buying..using the power and money of the Federal Govenment to pursue a case they can’t win, in order to grandstand in front of Hispanics who mistakenly believe that this will benefit them.

If a state has to sue the Federal Government to enforce the law, there-in lies the problem! It will be decades before another Democrat is elected to office.

Politicians don’t care about us, it’s all about them. If all you morons commenting and debating this can’t see it, then go get your head examined.
An asteroid needs to hit the earth.

I say just sue everyone.

The comment from “talk from sf”, about kids in the WH. It’s not kids, it’s vandals, destroying everything there and ensuring we have to pay for the damages.
I just don’t get what part of illegal non of them understand, and how they are able to continue with support from their constituents. The mayor of Los Angeles is one of the bigger greasballs that has helped create this mess by allowing (ignoring) illegals to be around without consequence, then boycotting Arizona for enforcing the law. GO ARIZONA, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!!!

“This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds.”
Yes, but they came here legally, registered, payed taxes, contributed to society, and followed the laws with benefit to all the people.
“the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
You imply the illegals rights are threatened? What rights, they aren’t legally here. Do you say the same for illegals from that would want to blow up our buildings with planes, destroy our country? What is really threatened is my, and your, rights to benefit and enjoy what you’ve earned and worked hard for all your life, not to mention the threat to our lives themselves by the illegals that don’t respect any of our laws. Our leaders, and that is loosely said, are to be held responsible for both their actions or lack of. I support Gov Brewers responsibility and actions, and at the same time would like to slap our Presidential leader across the face for his FAILURE to perform or protect.

“natural rights as the founding fathers envisioned them which are not dependent upon government just dependent upon existence”
You say just because you exist that’s all it takes, and what reasonable is? If you are an animal perhaps that’s correct, the strongest then become the alpha leader, but we are human, not animals.
Reasonable humans, especially citizens of the United States in this case, would differ from your interpretation and description.
In reality, “theory of natural law holds that there is a certain order in nature from which humans, by use of their reason, can derive standards for human conduct.” This truly means our LAWs are what have been derived as our standard for this country. If you are here without legal authority, then you are ILLEGAL, and without rights because we’ve derived a code of behavior for being here.

From a blue-dog DEMOCRAT: You think all democrats approve of illegal immigration and its burden on US citizens AND legal immigrants? Wrong. I don’t. Republican and Democrats alike don’t hate anyone who wants to come to the US, we just don’t like our government ignoring its own laws in order to buy votes. If you have a problem with that your arguments are empty; based on ignorant, race-baiting, socialist principles. Personally I’m sick of being a Democrat because it has become apparent that our party is destroying the country by steadily eliminating bedrock principles of hard work and self-sufficiency. The Republicans are no better since profiteering has taken control of most of them as it has with many Democrats. I’m going independent. Bottom line this country is on the decline and we are all in line for some unhappy days unless ALL politicans who have been in office for more than one full term are put OUT. The purging needs to be repeated until they learn we won’t allow them to use us as pawns in their game.

It is odd that there has been this big spike in right wing idiocy coming out of Arizona though. Texas has a higher background level of crazy and right now Arizona is like a supernova taking the attention. I wonder how long it will last.
Actually it isn’t that strange. Arizona has been moving gradually towards the middle over the last twenty years. The population has doubled in that time and a big part of that spike wasn’t old retirees who tended to be conservative, but a lot of younger families moving from blue states, etc. In 2008 McCain only received 53.4% of the vote here in Arizona, his sixth lowest vote total among the states he won. Now think about that, his home state was one of his least supportive states. Had McCain been from Texas, Florida, etc., he likely would have lost Arizona.
This state has a long history of very conservative, often racist politics and the supporters of those policies aren’t happy that they are consistently losing ground to moderates and liberals (simply termed as liberals in their tirades). Because of how the state legislature is set up conservatives still have a major majority in both houses but, when Napolitano was governor, she vetoed a lot of their stupidity. In fact she set the record for vetoes in the history of the state. You take her away, bring in Brewer who is a wing-nut’s wing-nut, and you see incredibly stupid legislation that was shut down by a reasonable governor make it out of the state house. At the same time you see an increase in non-conservative population as well as an increase in non-white population and the far white err, right is freaking out.