Posts Tagged ‘illegal immigration’
Arizona Appeals Ruling on Immigration Law Amid Protests, Dozens of Arrests
Liberty Alerts, Fox News PHOENIX -- The showdown over Arizona's immigration law played out in court and on Phoenix's sun-splashed streets on Thursday, as the state sought to reinstate key parts of the measure and angry protesters chanted that they refused to "live in fear." Dozens were arrested. A federal judge's decision a day earlier to [...]
I Demur
By Steve Farrell Emily Dickinson spoke to her time as well as ours when she penned this penetrating line: Assent — and you are sane — Demur — you're straightway dangerous And handled with a chain. I wonder, this day, can the State of Arizona and its good people relate to the treatment Dickinson predicted? I'm sure they can. Have they [...]
Arizona Immigration Law Blocked By Federal Court
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Phoenix, AZ – Federal District Judge Susan Bolton issued a 36-page decision blocking enforcement of key provisions to the controversial Arizona immigration law. Judge Bolton wrote: “Applying the proper legal standards based upon well-established precedent, the Court finds that the United States is likely [...]
ACLJ Extremely Disappointed With Federal Court Decision Blocking Key Provisions of AZ Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) said today it is extremely disappointed with a federal court decision that blocks key provisions of Arizona's immigration law S.B. 1070 from taking effect. The ACLJ, along with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, [...]
Fundamental Right of Societies, Clubs, and Nations
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Gouvernor Morris Every society from a great nation down to a club has a right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted. Source: Madison's Notes on the Federal Convention, August 9, 1787, Gouvernor Morris: delegate from Pennsylvania. Liberty Letters are compiled and edited (with [...]
Judicial Watch Sues Pasadena Police Department for Records Detailing Illegal Alien Sanctuary Policy
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed an open records lawsuit against the Pasadena Police Department (PPD), and PPD Police Chief Christopher Vicino, to obtain documents related to the department’s alleged [...]
Help Block Obama’s Lawsuit Against Arizona
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org Freedom Campaign A very important and worthy amendment was just defeated in the Senate by a 55-43 vote. Senators Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and David Vitter (R-La.) introduced an amendment designed to stop the Obama Administration’s lawsuit against the State of Arizona and its taxpayers for SB 1070, the immigration bill [...]
U.S. Calls Illegal Mexican Pot Farmer “Displaced Traveler”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In an insane case of political correctness, a federal government agency has classified an illegal immigrant arrested for cultivating marijuana in a national forest as a “displaced traveler from Michoacán Mexico.” The illegal alien (Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez) was recently busted during a U.S. [...]
Americanus Speaks to Arizona’s Immigration Crisis and to All of Us
By Steve Farrell As the illegal immigration crisis proceeds a pace, and an American President has so far removed himself from his duty (and his wits) that he has ordered his Justice Department to sue an American state (Arizona) for doing its duty and for having its wits about it in defense of its citizens and their property — a little wit and [...]
ACLJ & Members of Congress Urge Federal Court to Reject DOJ Suit Challenging AZ Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) and the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) have filed an amicus brief on behalf of 81 members of Congress in support of Arizona's new immigration law which is being challenged in federal court by the U.S. Department of Justice. The brief urges the [...]
Sanctuary Cities Immune From Federal Law
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Days after suing Arizona for “intruding” on the government’s authority by passing a state version of its immigration laws, the Obama Administration has revealed that it will also ignore violations of the federal statute. A Justice Department official confirmed in a news report this week that [...]
Immigration, Reconsidered — Duke
By Selwyn Duke While the Obama administration has chosen the southern side in the Mexican-Arizonan border war, most Americans stand with their countrymen. They are troubled by the strain illegals place on services, the drugs and thugs moving north and blue-collar job prospects moving south. Then there is another factor: the political and [...]
Nebraska Town Joins Growing Chorus Defying Corrupt Obama Adminstration
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles While the feds waste valuable taxpayer resources to fight Arizona’s “unconstitutional” and “racist” immigration control law, Americans in other parts of the country are working to enact similar measures in their state even if it creates a legal war with Uncle Sam. This week alone, in two [...]
‘No English’ Defense Works In N.J. Drunk Driving Case
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles New Jersey drunken drivers who don’t understand a police officer’s English commands are immune from prosecution thanks to a state Supreme Court ruling, which this week overturned three separate court decisions to side with a Spanish-speaking drug dealer. The case involves a suspected illegal [...]
Florida County Helps Illegal Workers Get Paid
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles As states and municipalities across the nation adopt measures to combat a painful illegal immigration crisis, a major U.S. county continues to dedicate public resources to help undocumented workers. Florida’s most populous county, Miami-Dade, is operating a taxpayer-financed program to assist [...]
My Immigration Debate with Matt Staver — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer I devoted the final hour of my program Friday to a lively discussion with Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, over the evangelical approach to immigration. The debate can be viewed by going to our Facebook page (American Family Radio - Focal Point) or by going to RightlyConcerned.com. Mat is the author of a [...]
Selective Enforcement — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb Federal law currently prohibits the use of marijuana. California spit in the face of the feds and enacted a law that makes “medical” marijuana available to anyone who wants it. Now, a ballot initiative in the November election will remove the “medical” requirement and allow any adult to grow and use marijuana at [...]
Most Americans Oppose Obama’s Arizona Lawsuit
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a major blow for the Obama Administration just months before the midterm elections, an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the federal government’s lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration control law. Most Americans, not only back Arizona’s measure, they support a similar bill [...]
Why Optimism Seems so Irrational — Steven Horwitz
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Steven Horwitz Over the last several weeks my columns have made a variety of arguments about why the world is a much better place than it used to be and why we should be optimistic about the future. In last week’s column I mentioned Matt Ridley’s new book, The Rational Optimist, which I heartily [...]
Illegal Immigrants Cost U.S. Taxpayers $113 Billion Annually
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles On the heels of a new study that reveals illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers $113 billion a year, the Obama Administration has filed a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s measure to curb illegal immigration. The Justice Department filed the lawsuit in federal court this week, claiming that the Arizona [...]
ACLJ Will Defend Arizona Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ It's a disturbing that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit challenging the new immigration law in Arizona. This latest attempt to stop Arizona's law by the DOJ is flawed and represents nothing more than a waste of taxpayer funds. It's troubling that the federal government, which has repeatedly [...]
Victory: University of Idaho Drops Charges of Harassment and Discrimination for ‘Offensive’ Speech
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org, Peter Bonilla After FIRE intervened, the University of Idaho (UI) abandoned disciplinary charges of "harass" and "discrimination" against student Alexander Rowson relating to political statements he made at two campus events. On or about March 30, during César Chávez Day at UI, there was a musical [...]
Evangelicals Go Rogue on Immigration — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer The National Association of Evangelicals claims to speak for me and 30-50 million other evangelical Christians. Sadly, on the issue of immigration, the NAE no longer speaks for me or for countless other Christians who believe in the rule of law and legal immigration. NAE president Leith Anderson, perhaps seduced by the lure [...]
Sanctuary Policy Leads To Woman’s Murder
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the latest casualty resulting from a law enforcement agency’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell immigration policy, an illegal alien with an extensive criminal record killed a woman after being arrested and released by several different police departments. Not [...]
Arizona’s Brewer: We’ll Fight Obama Efforts to Overturn Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, NewsMax.com WASHINGTON – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will meet with President Barack Obama on Thursday, a White House aide confirmed amid mounting ire over the state's immigration law that critics say encourages ethnic profiling. A defiant Brewer told CNN Tuesday night that her state will fight any federal attempts to [...]
Obama’s News Conference: More Crap
By Alan Caruba 5/27/10 - The President, after a lapse of 309 days, held a news conference Thursday. It came shortly after news that earlier in the day the director of the Mineral Management Service, Elizabeth Birnbaum, had either resigned or been fired. Obama professed to not know the circumstances. Yeah. Sure. What we do know is that [...]
Attrition, not mass deportation — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer The first order of business in dealing with our illegal alien problem is to secure the southern border by building a double-layer fence along everyone of its 2,000 miles. Good fences make good neighbors, as the saying goes, and they work to boot. One of the reasons Arizona has seen such a spike in illegal crossings is that [...]
Chill Amigo! — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Let’s take a look at how government in these United States is being run into the ground by folks who are in positions of leadership. We keep hearing a similar excuse being espoused, “I haven’t read it”; played back in a variety of ways. In the case of the Arizona Illegal Alien Mexican Stand Off bill far too many high [...]
Thank You Congressman McClintock — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Having observed Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s tongue lashing of America while addressing Congress as an invited guest, I found it hard to put my disgust into words. A number of Democrats rose ceremoniously to applaud Calderon’s displeasure with Arizona’s illegal immigration law, a law which mirrors US law. I wasn’t [...]
Why Arizona Should Racially Profile — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke When the Times Square bombing suspect was first reported to be a “white male,” I shook my head. I knew that, despite Mayor Bloomberg’s asinine musings about how the perpetrator was probably “homegrown” and perhaps someone upset about the healthcare bill, this was nonsense. “It’s about as likely as a story about [...]
