by John Hill
Stand With Arizona
How significant was Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn’s ruling upholding key sections of Alabama’s H.B. 56 immigration law? Well, just ask the New York Times, which flipped out over it in their lead editorial:
A federal judge has upheld most of Alabama’s new immigration law, the nation’s harshest and most radical attempt to harness a state’s power to find and punish illegal immigrants. The consequences for Alabamans will be serious — not just for the undocumented, but for their blameless citizen children, for those who are mistaken for unauthorized immigrants and for farmers and other business owners ensnared in the law.
“Harsh”, “radical”, “find…punish”, “unauthorized immigrants”. Read enough of the Times‘ editorial and you might actually forget that illegal immigration is, well, ILLEGAL.
While the Times is relieved that Judge Blackburn suspended (pending trial) sections making it a crime to “harbor or transport” illegals, barring illegals from public universities, and preventing day laborers from seeking work, they spared no hyperbole to describe the sections she upheld which do no more than uphold Federal immigration laws on the books:
But her mixed ruling was most discouraging for what survived. Judge Blackburn upheld the “papers, please” section, an echo of Arizona’s notorious attempt to require state and local law enforcement officials to check a person’s immigration status during traffic stops if they have “a reasonable suspicion” that someone is here illegally.
She upheld a section that criminalized the “willful failure” of an illegal immigrant to carry federal immigration papers.
Ah, the old “Papers, please” reference to Nazi Germany, suggesting that checking people’s IDs is akin to the Nazis checking “papers” for Jews or political opponents to arrest or otherwise persecute. But what if you are here in the U.S. legally, as a Permanent Resident? Well, you get a “green card” to prove it.
And what is the Federal law for green card holders regarding carrying the ID? It is written right on Form I-797, which all holders receive:
Hmm…what does that say? Let’s take a closer look…
Wow, those evil Nazis at Homeland Security force green card holders carry their “papers” at “all times”! How outrageous! I am expecting a follow-up editorial from the Times decrying this Fascist mandate.
And those are LEGAL immigrants. ILLEGAL aliens typically have NO official ID, unless it was forged or stolen from a legal American (or they have a driver’s license from UT, NM or WA). Yet the Times doesn’t want them to suffer any consequences at all from their unlawful actions.
And how about the Times‘ reference to Arizona’s S.B. 1070 requirement for police to check immigration status if they have “reasonable suspicion” as “notorious“. Well I guess the Times must also decry the Supreme Court. Or more specifically – the “Warren Court” of the 1960s – widely regarded as the most liberal in history. That same Court found, 8-1, in “Terry v. Ohio (1968)” that “reasonable suspicion” is constitutional:
…the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks him without probable cause to arrest, if the police officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime….
And then the Times even finds evil intent in…counting. How so? Well, H.B. 56 includes Alabama’s effort to determine the annual cost to the taxpayers of educating illegal alien children. Why? Because the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates the cost was a staggering $82.5 million in 2007 alone, and Alabama wants to determine the accuracy of this estimate.
It’s kind of hard to figure this out unless you know how many students are not here legally. In other words, you count. Clearly the Judge understood this. But to the Times, it is beyond the pale:
[S]he left untouched a section that requires elementary and secondary schools to collect data on the immigration status of incoming students and their parents, a clearly unlawful attempt to frighten families into keeping their children out of school.
I will await the Times‘ follow-up to explain how counting is “clearly unlawful”. But if families are indeed “frightened”, perhaps it is because they have something to hide: the fact that their very presence in Alabama and the United States in in violation of Federal, and – according to a Federal judge – Alabama law. To leftist, open-borders entities like the New York Times, which has routinely scoffed at immigration laws, any attempt to enforce those laws against “undocumented immigrants” is an evil, racist act.
But to the vast majority of the American people, it is merely the just exercise of the rule of law.
Final thoughts from our hysterical friends:
In the absence of a broad federal reform of immigration laws, states have been trying to outdo one another in such crackdowns. Their zealotry will now be encouraged further, as will the racial-profiling, discrimination and other ills that accompany it.
Just pathetic. Race-baiting, fear-mongering propaganda – right out of the Obama/DNC playbook for 2012. Well, sorry to disappoint you, New York Times, but yes the states will indeed continue to bring forward innovative and fully constitutional legislation to enforce the rule of law where the Federal government has willfully failed. And groups like Stand With Arizona – which is launching a 22-state effort to pass Arizona-style laws through 2012 – and its allies will enjoy bringing you additional fodder for your editorial page in the months to come.
The laws will be enforced. Illegal aliens will leave the states that enforce those laws. We will prevail.
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Put me in a room alone with the person from the NYT who wrote that…
hehehe.
I can’t believe the Times is still in Business with all the liberal BS they spew what part of illegal is so hard to understand
If they want them so much, let’s send them all the criminals at the borders of Arizona and Texas. Let them have the robberies, rapes and murders from the innocent illegals! The people who write The Times and read The Times do not have to live with it every day. They would not last one day in Laredo, Texas not to mention Arizona!! Yes, children should have education, but their parents are at fault for not applying for citizenship long ago. If they had the children would not be suffering now!! The economy is so bad I am sure that the jobs they vacated will be filled with Americans willing to work! The schools can use all the money saved for American children so that their education may be improved! You tell Obama and his buddies to live in a modest house for one month at the border and see how he feels about illegals then!!! It’s easy to say “Let them in” when it has no bearing on your life in any way!! Anyway, Go Sheriff Joe and Go Alabama, You Are Not Alone!!!!!
Yes go, go, go lets send illegals home, secure our borders, restore our country with the return of truth,justice, morals. I live in Florida and I am in hopes Florida will follow your lead!!!
Totally right! Agree 100%!!!
Illegal is NOT a sick bird! To allow one segment of the population, (illegal) special privileges is to discriminate against the other LEGAL segment in an adverse manner! We have come full circle and are NOW kicking ourselves in the behind with “political correctness”.
Bring back “Operation Wetback”. It’s been done before, we CAN do it again.
Very well stated Chix!!!!
I was listening to some old time radio shows from the 40′s and heard about Operation Wetback. I like it.
If the truth was known, the person that wrote that article is orobably one of thos “wet backs”! We don’t hate immigrants, we are a nation of immigrants, ,,,we just want everyone to DO IT LEGALLY,you idiot!!!
Never ceases to amaze me how many people root for criminals and vilify people who obey the law and advocate following the rule of law. And the trouble is that too many of them are judges.
Better run little jack rabbits….your days of disreguards to our countries laws are comming to an end….you can run but you can’t hide much longer..we will never give up…we are Americans we never lose a fight,,,thats just how we roll….you have had your warning, you have done your damage, and you have hurt too many innocent tax payers to play the feel soory for the poor little mexican act…we are asking you to leave soon we will force you and it ain’t gonna be nice…
The NY Times really need to cut it out with the “surprised” act because their heads will explode for sure in November 2012. With Wiener’s seat going Republican after 80+ years, the 26 (give or take a few) states suing at the SCOTUS over Obamacare, the the 2010 shellacking, the president’s poll numbers going down the toilet, and numerous other events I could name, they need to pull their liberal heads out of their giant posteriors and realize, the people have had enough! Illegal means just that. The tap is dry. You either apply legally and work a legal tax paying (that doesn’t include on a stolen SS #) or you take your ball and go home where you came from. The law does not take into account feelings or political correctness, not yet anyway. Bravo ALABAMA!
When did we lose our common sense? Our Government, has allowed the invasion of 30 million criminals in direct violation of Article IV, Section IV of our Constitution. they force American tax payers to pay Billions to provide Welfare, Prison cells, Educate the invaders children, free medical care,massive document fraud, & are destroying our schools, hospitals, communities, culture while Robbing, Raping, Killing & Assaulting American Citizens WE ARE BEING INVADED! WAKE UP PEOPLE!
An education is a good thing.
step #1 http://bit.ly/oBuTUd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NVT7lyNRZQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsH8xvjTAlo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btj6IeOFkis&feature=player_embedded
http://immigrationcounters.com/
http://ojjpac.org/memorial.asp
http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty580.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/02/immigration-costs-fair-amnesty-educations-costs-reform/
http://www.rense.com/general81/dtli.htm
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=41045
http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html
http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/003335.html
Every Non-representative including obama and holder are not upholding the oath of office! they swore to defend the Constitution! If these clowns were to do their job, this would all be a Moot point!
Anchors and their criminal parents go, period, you knew you were breaking the law when you crossed the border.
Next shut down any business hiring illegal labor. Oh and owners go to jail.
Got a better idea? Lets hear it!
No, no better ideas…let’s just implement your ideas…they pretty much parallel mine anyway!
You know they are not arguing that they should show a license when being pulled over, everyone needs to show a license. The fact is that by them passing this law it gives the power to those racist and bitter cops to pull over any person whom they like because of color.
Hey Anonymous,
I take offense at your remark. It sounds as if you have issues with the law enforcement. Are you illegal or criminal. My husband is a law enforcement official…..they are not bitter nor racist nor seeking to discriminate because of color! This 2011….moron!