The state of Idaho, led by Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and Gov. Butch Otter, is filing a “friend of the court brief” supporting Arizona in its appeal of a new law on illegal immigration.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Arizona to block the law and won an initial ruling. The law allows police to check the citizenship of anyone they think might be in the country illegally if they have been detained for another possible offense. A federal judge issued a temporary injunction blocking that portion of the plan from going into effect.
Much of the legal debate over the law centers around whether the state immigration law trumps federal laws on the books. Idaho’s legal brief contends that Arizona’s law is consistent with current immigration practices.
“Arizona is simply requiring its law enforcement officials to help the federal government enforce immigration law as envisioned by Congress,” Otter said in a news release. “State officials have the right under existing federal law to identify illegal aliens and report them to federal authorities. It’s our affirmative duty to protect states’ rights, and that’s particularly important when a lawsuit seeks to punish a state for doing what the federal government has failed to do – protect our borders and American citizens.”
The Arizona law was scheduled to go into effect in July, before the federal judge issued the injunction. Arizona’s appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is set to be heard in November, according to Reuters. Idaho joins Michigan in filing an amicus curiae brief to the appeals court.
Arizona’s law has garnered national headlines. One north Idaho lawmaker has plans to introduce a similar proposal during the next legislative session.
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Hey Sheriff Joe, make the Federal Government and the Narco/bankster State of Mexico produce the Treasonous secret trade agreements signed by Bush and Fox and Obama and Calderon.
NAFTA was illegally planned and implemented and was not ratified by Congress and it can not “legally” supersede our Constitution.
The U.S Justice department is part of the Traitor criminal organization of World Banksters and Big Oil who have overthrown, by corruption, our American Independence, Constitution and Freedom.
Not one Bankster was brought to Justice for the world’s greatest mortgage fraud (15 trillion), yet the Justice Dept. go after Arizona for enforcing a Federal law that the Feds refuse to enforce.
The illegal and Fascist Federal government wants to implement the secret trade agreement and open the borders to the North American Union. The political appointed Fascist Justice Department is there to deliver for them and crush any state that gets in their way.
The Fascist Federal Government and the Justice Dept is the back door criminals who refuse to honor our American Constitution which they have overthrown; they are the Treason criminals to our Democracy who someday will be brought to real Justice.
Ask yourself why the Narco/bankster state of Mexico has kept the Mexican people down to starvation wages and live in third world poverty when their country is so rich. Cheap slave labor is why, by design, by the multinational corporations who corrupted the elite Mexican government.
The Feds is prosecuting and harassing Arizona because Arizona wants to enforce the law that employers verify legal immigration before hiring an employee. The Feds refuse to enforce the laws that are on the books or even collect income tax or employer tax from the employers or the illegal workers. Federal Illegal Immigrants are a freebee for multinational corporations at states expense.
Racial Profiling is a Joke. If a white man stole my car, I wouldn’t be looking for a Mexican or a Negro! Get real!
I stand with the Sheriffs and the State of Arizona to fight for our Constitutional Democracy, Independence and Freedom.
It is still legal in Arizona to buy a gun and to join a state militia.
It is a citizen’s responsibility to defend our Constitution that embodies our Freedom, Independence and Democracy.
[...] The Arizona measure is in legal limbo. Though parts of the law have been ruled unconstitutional in court, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is appealing the decision, contending that states must step up to the plate on enforcement when the federal government fails to do so. Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and Attorney General Lawrence Wasden have signed on to the suit as friends of Arizona’s argument in the case. [...]