Obama admin cuts off AZ from all Immg-law enforcement, leaving state vulnerable

[Little-Acorn]

The Obama administration was quick to react after the Supreme Court announced its ruling that Arizona police could legally ask persons stopped for other matters, about their immigration status.

Within hours of the ruling, the Dept of Homeland Security announced it was revoking its previous agreements to cooperate with Arizona law enforcement personnel in immigration-related arrests and other matters. And they made it clear that, if Arizona police found a person who was an illegal alien and called Federal authorities as they now must, the Federal authorities would not respond to the call.
http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012...287g-immigration-check-agreements-in-arizona/

At the same time as the announcement that Feds would not respond to calls about illegal aliens in Arizona, the Obama administration also announced a new "hot line" to take calls about Arizona law enforcement personnel dealing with illegal aliens. The purpose of the new "hot line" was not to respond to the presence of the illegal alien, but to investigate the behavior of the Arizona police officer, they said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...n-in-arizona/2012/06/25/gJQAU1zf2V_story.html

It quickly became clear that the Obama administration, in addition to its general policy of not enforcing immigration laws that had been passed by Congress and signed into law, was singling out Arizona in response to the state's pleas for aid in coping with the flood of illegal aliens that had deluged the state for years, and its attempts to enforce the laws that the Federal government had not enforced.

Yesterday's action by the Obama administration made it very clear what states could expect if they dared to challenge the government's policy of not enforcing Federal laws.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his Dissenting Opinion yesterday:

"...to say, as the Court does, that Arizona contradicts federal law by enforcing applications of the Immigration Act that the President declines to enforce, boggles the mind.

"...So the issue is a stark one. Are the sovereign States at the mercy of the Federal Executive’s refusal to enforce the Nation’s immigration laws?

"A good way of answering that question is to ask: Would the States conceivably have entered into the Union if the Constitution itself contained the Court’s holding? Today’s judgment surely fails that test." - Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court, June 25, 2012

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/11-182#writing-11-182_CONCUR_4

 

[Johnny Tremain]

"...So the issue is a stark one. Are the sovereign States at the mercy of the Federal Executive’s refusal to enforce the Nation’s immigration laws?

Arizona--should begin secession from the USA--for cause.

 

[dogtowner]

I hope they follow through on this foolish threat, does nothing but inflame the issue and not in a way they will like. There are other states following the same path so this matter goes geometric quickly.