WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats and Republicans scrambled for election-year gain from the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday that threw out key provisions of Arizona’s immigration law but upheld one that requires police to check the status of people who might appear to be in the U.S. illegally.
Democrats said the ruling risks encouraging racial profiling, while Republicans said it strengthens the right of states to make and enforce their own immigration policies. In hot pursuit of Hispanic voters this presidential and congressional election year, members of both parties said the elected branches of the federal government need to overcome deep divisions and enact long-term laws affecting the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants.
The court unanimously upheld the “show me your papers” requirement of the state’s law.
But even there, the justices said the provision could be subject to additional legal challenges, and they blunted somewhat its effectiveness by prohibiting officers from arresting people on immigration charges.
The court struck down three major provisions of the Arizona law, including one requirement for all immigrants to obtain or carry registration papers, another making it a state criminal offense for an illegal immigrant to seek work or hold a job and a third allowing police to arrest suspected illegal immigrants without warrants.
Democrats said the decision shows President Barack Obama was right to challenge the law’s constitutionality and praised him for deferring the deportation of some young illegal immigrants. But they also said the decisions could encourage discrimination.
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This corrupt individual should of been impeached long ago on bribery charges, for he did bribe two Senators for their yes vote to pass Obamacare. Why hasn’t he been impeached? It is because he he being protected by the Corrupt Brotherhood of Senators who would like Reid sell his own for the blood stained 30 pieces of silver. This ploy of racial profile is just an excuse to finish taking the once a Republic into the total Socialist States of America where the Federal Government owns and rules with the help of Petty Bureaucrats and hidden Committees. That along with a total Nanny State which is going on NOW!! Then too, the Federal agencies like the EPA and FDA are totally out of control and harass the citizens at will. Not only that the FDA allows poison killing drugs and toxic processed foods to be sold on the market to make you sick. Of course once sick you visit a AMA/Pharmaceutical Doctor who pushes (30,000% profit margin or higher) drugs to make you sicker. Why, it is all about control and murder of the surplus population. If you do not believe me just look at the food labels, like the staff of life bread which in most cases is laced with toxins like AZODICARBONAMIDE(used in the production of plastics) and outlawed in most countries. There is more but you have to search for it your self and not bow and scrape to the greatest Snake oil Salesman of all time and his Socialist pals. So, have a great day eating your poison foods and take your poison pills and enjoy be sick.
Who does reid(stupid statemnt) think are illegal immigrants. 99.9 percent come straight out of mexico with a load of dope. how can law officers not profile , when they already know who most of the illegals are?
Bammy,holdup, reied and about 6800 volunter lawyers should be in fort Levenwork federal prison. Nothing but a bunch of con men, liars, crooks, communist, dicators and out justice dept and congress sit back and let go on. the dumb voters that put him in, need a little jaild time or the time the crazy house.
I am utterly appalled by the almost unimaginable, utterly DISGUSTING DOUBLETHINK HIPOCRACY demonstrated by Calderon and the bleeding-heart Libitards stateside! Find yourself a few too many miles inside of Mexico and you’ll have Federales pointing machine guns at you as they trash your vehicle. If you don’t have the right Papers you WILL be arrested and thrown into a hell-hole, serve an extended sentence and WILL be deported!
IF the LEGAL American Citizens of Latin ancestry wanted to stop the “unfair harassment” their most appropriate avenue would be to POLICE THEIR OWN! As the arrests of ILLEGALS declined so would the “harassment” of the community as a whole!
European, Asian and the like immigrants were hassled for a while but when they were seen to be LEGAL, productive citizens the issue of “legal/illegal” became a non-issue!