Live blog: Supreme Court strikes down three parts of immigration law, upholds one
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SIMPLE BREAKDOWN:
- AZ RULING: Court has overturned sections requiring a) aliens to carry a registration papers... more....
- AZ RULING: Court has overturned section of AZ law: b) prohibiting illegal immigrants to seek work, saying fed. law overrides this state law.
- AZ RULING: Court has overturned section of AZ law: c) allowing police to stop and arrest a person they suspect of being deport-able (illegal)
- AZ RULING: SCOTUS UPHELD requirement that police try to get immigration status of anyone they arrest, but court ruled on procedural grounds
NOTE: CNN's John King added that opponents feel the portion of the law which was upheld is what many critics said was tantamount to “racial profiling.â€
Updated at 10:29 a.m. ET] How did Americans feel about the Arizona immigration law before the Supreme Court ruled?
A CNN/ORC poll conducted on May 29-31 found that 75% were in favor of it while 2% opposed it.
CNN's Kate Bolduan, clarifying the ruling, said of the provision that was upheld: "If they suspect you have broke a law that is already on the books, they can check your immigration status" if theres reasonable suspicions a person is in the country illegally.
[Updated at 10:26 a.m. ET] The Court ruled largely in favor of the U.S. government, striking down three parts of the Arizona immigration law, but the Court did uphold one the most notorious provisions: A requirement that local police officers check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws if "reasonable suspicion" exists that the person is in the United States illegally.
The question now is can that single provision stand on its own, or does the court action mean Arizona has to go back to the drawing board on their immigration law.
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POLITICO Breaking News
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The Supreme Court on Monday struck down several parts of the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law but rejected a challenge to the law's most controversial provision. That measure, requiring police to conduct immigration checks on individuals they arrest or merely stop for questioning whom they suspect are in the U.S. illegally, does not appear to violate the Constitution by intruding on the federal government's powers to control immigration, the court said. However, the justices said further legal challenges to the provision can go forward after that part of the law takes effect.
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Comments: 44
THEY do whatever they want and even when proven they had no legal standing, oh well, too bad, and too late for the injured party!
Gov. Brewer cites 'Win'
My question is; If an officer of the law is sworn to enforce the law isn't he or she obliged to enforce all the laws regardless of the jurisdiction issueing the law? Are they to be forbidden to enforce state laws if they are a city cop, or federal law if they are a state cop. Are only some laws to be enforced and not others?
The myriad of problems facing the American people have now been solved.
YES! Jumping for joy. Break dancing. YES! YES! YES!
The SCOTUS upheld law enforcements right to question a persons citizenship!
You obviously didn't understand the decision Lloyd
Do you not realized that 3 out of the 4 provisions were struck down. That means according to the Supreme Court, the CONSTITUTION says 3 out of the 4 provisions that AZ wanted to implement were UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
ROTFLMAO!
This was a huge win for President Obama and a near complete loss for Arizona Governor Janet Brewer.
ROTFLMAO!
Linda, I've never heard these words come out of the mouths of Republicans until President Obama cornered them and called their bluffs. Any long time solution proposed by Mitt Romney will lead to his demise. I guarantee that.
It is like winning the Superbowl for all U.S. citizens! And you progressives are dancing around trying to save face.
The part that was upheld is the part that Obama and all of progressiveism spoke out against the loudest!
I can only imagine how you are going to be acting Thursday when the SCOTUS strikes down Obamacare....you'll probably act giddy and pretend you won then too.
But I'll do without that "special" progressive mindsense that allows you to see just the things you want.
I'll stick with the Conservative common sense I have.
And yes the fun has just begun...Romney's election also comes with the posibility of 2 SCOTUS justices retiring during his term, all it will take is a couple of Constitutionalists on the SCOTUS to bring your progressive world falling down.
But you shouldn't worry yourself about that.
One day, the Progressives of all races will understand we had their best interest in mind when running the tyrannical representatives out of power and right into one of their friend's prisons, where they send proportionately more black and Hispanic men and women... Don't they understand, if it weren't for Republicans they would STILL be riding in the back of the bus? All Democrats voted against their freedom!
I still maintain the illegal immigration problem was allowed to escalate under the Democrats for voting purposes.
An illegal alien who put his live on the line, serving our nation in a military capacity should be entitled to live in our country.
A Republican Presidential nominee who never served and has 5 sons who never served our nation should shut his mouth and do the right thing.
That's what President Obama did. He did the right thing and the majority of the American electorate agrees with him.
It's sad people CHOOSE to be closed minded and CHOOSE not to think for themselves. That's all I asked you to do and you immediately jump to your own closed-minded opinion.
Let's cut through the chase and deal with the facts. In less than 3 years President Obama has deported more illegal aliens than Georg Bush did in 8 years; in many cases upsetting his own base.
The flow of illegal aliens coming into our country is at a all time low unlike it was when George Bush was in office and Ronald Reagan offered amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
This is about children and upstanding aliens who serve our country and have not committed any crimes within our boarders.
Once again, a child bought here, born here, grew up here and hasn't committed a crime should not be deported to a country they know nothing of.
An illegal alien who put his live on the line, serving our nation in a military capacity should be entitled to live in our country.
The only ones who has the right to deny this opportunity are the Native Americans. They were first here before this country was inundated with illegal aliens from Europe, China, and other countries throughout the world.
Playing the blame game solves nothing! Why would illegals even be allowed to join the military? Guess our govt thinks killing them is as good as killing legal citizens of the U.S.
And now, we have Al Sharpton advocating putting illegals on food stamps, SS, and Medicare!
Those of us who pay into SS should not allow those who never paid into it be entitled to our benefits. Besides, the govt has stolen so much from SS it isn't even solvent! Let THEM share THEIR retirement fund with illegals if they wish, but leave ours alone. You DO know our govt workers and representatives have their OWN, PRIVATE retirement fund, don't you?
That is a question you have to ask of former President George Bush and his advisers. It was under his 2 administrations that the ranks of illegal aliens serving in the Armed Forces swelled.
I guess it all had to do with his ill-advised war in Iraq and his misguided war in Afghanistan. All the war mongers didn't want their children putting their lives on the line.
If you ever see photos of our troops you'll see a disproportionate percentage of Blacks, Women, middle-class, Latinos and the poor putting their lives on the line for the security of our nation.
Where are the 1%? Where were Mitt Romney's 5 sons?
They were no where to be found.
Bush did NOT pass this legislation and he did NOT dictate it happen - where were our representatives?
Just forget Rep/Dem scenario, they are all the same and once you understand this, you'll have better insight as to what is actually happening.
It's all the same agenda and we are screwed! Who cares where Romney's son's were? Where was Clinton? Where was Obama?
Forget about the 1% too as you are not going to change that. Wanting to steal from the rich has been a dream of the entitled for way to long!
They were doing the work of the American people. Not being war mongering Chicken hawks.
Clinton stopped nothing and set up the atmosphere for war and Bush took over.
Obama stopped nothing AND is starting two or three more wars?
Talk about your war-mongering!!!!
We are told (although I do not believe any numbers that come from Washington) that we have 20,000,000 people that have entered our nation by bypassing the legal process, and that is a problem, regardless of your political affiliation. We have this problem for a specific reason, which is that our government has always done a poor job of enforcing existing laws that are intended to allow entry into this country by following a specific process.
Because of our government's failure to enforce existing laws and to actually monitor and secure our borders, we have those 20,000,000 people within our country that by law should not be here. I have great respect for those who come to America to improve their lives, and after all, that is how our very nation was built. The valid laws are not intended to keep people out, but to provide a legal process that will allow those from beyond our borders to come to America, and again, that is acceptable by everyone that I have ever personally talked to on this issue.
There are varying reasons for those who come to our nation without respecting our legal process. Some need to improve their lives monetarily, and in the middle of a recession here, we can all understand that. But many see an urgency and need to make that move now, and are unwilling to go through the time-consuming process so they may began their new life sooner. Again, I can understand that mentality, but it does not represent respect for the laws of the country they are entering. We have laws to prevent that from happening, but we also have laws that will allow those who qualify to enter by a legal means.
Then, there are those who bypass our legal system because they know they would not be allowed to enter. Those with certain criminal histories know they will risk being denied entry if they attempt to use the legal process, so they spit on our laws, as they did those in their own country, and attempt to enter by their terms, nor those of this nation. There are also those who wish to come to this nation for questionable reasons that could be related to anything from selling drugs to trafficking humans, and we all know that it happens. Those existing laws are there to protect our borders and to allow us to control who enters our nation, and while there are various circumstances with each individual, those laws need to be enforced.
In an election year, as always, the immigration issue becomes a focus, but for the wrong reason. It is used as a political tool to get the support of the legal Hispanic voters, and the illusion begins. No one...Let me repeat that...No one is opposed to the Hispanic community (except for the racist element) who have entered this nation by a legal means. It is sad that our government and common citizens try to deceive our Hispanic-Americans and try to make them think that some of us are opposed to them being in our country. No, the illegal immigration is the true problem, and it should be made clear that this is what we are concerned with, and to stop letting our government use the good name of our Hispanic Americans as a tool to deceive those same people into believing that half of this nation is against them. It is an injustice to the Hispanic community, and it is a misrepresentation to the people of America, as a whole.
No, you do what typical Progressives do, take one statement and put your spin on it, totally different that the truth of the matter.
AND, 99.9999% of the time, those of your brain-off mindset, just love to point the finger, and that snake is going to bite that finger right off!
There is nothing in my words that is representative of a "biased opinion" and your suggestion that the issue of illegal immigration is based hatred within the conservatives is a representation of your own hatred of conservatives. Twist my words all you want, and attempt to find a hidden or misguided agenda, but my word remain true, and nothing with what I said should have been interpreted to have an alternate meaning.
The opposition is to illegal immigrants, not to the Hispanic community, collectively is the actual statement that I am making. Don't misrepresent me, or my words and expect it to go unchallenged. You either did not comprehend my words, or you are simply projecting a very clouded understanding of what I was speaking against with my words. Your points with your disagreement are without merit, based on simply your twisting of my obvious message, lack of logic, and lack of truth on your part. I suggest that you re-read my comment and then tell me where exactly that I am misrepresenting the truth, or where there is one ounce of being biased or disrespect for anyone with the exception of the “racist element.”