Obama’s DOJ Strikes Again
This time in Alabama, where Eric Holder & Co. are again waging war against a state trying to enforce immigration law that the federal government refuses to tackle. This from Politico:
Arguing that the federal government sets immigration policy, the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to stop Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation law before it takes effect on Sept. 1.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Birmingham, is the third major legal challenge to the Alabama law, which would, among other things, make it illegal for undocumented immigrants to apply for work, require law enforcement to determine the legal status of people they arrest, transport or “conceal” undocumented people in the state, and force public schools to determine the citizenship status of their students.
“To put it in terms we relate to here in Alabama, you can only have one quarterback in a football game. In immigration, the federal government is the quarterback,” U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance said, according to the Birmingham News.
What’s happened in this case, of course, is that the quarterback is firmly in the trenches with the opposing team, deliberately tossing INTs left and right. And guess who couldn’t be happier with that arrangement:
Attorney General Eric Holder, in a statement released by the Justice Department, said states cannot set their own immigration laws.
“Today’s action makes clear that setting immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws is a national responsibility that cannot be addressed through a patchwork of state immigration laws,” Holder said. “The department is committed to evaluating each state immigration law and making decisions based on the facts and the law. To the extent we find state laws that interfere with the federal government’s enforcement of immigration law, we are prepared to bring suit, as we did in Arizona.”
And then there’s this from the WSJ:
Alabama state representative Mickey Hammon, who sponsored the immigration bill, earlier told The Birmingham News that the legislation was carefully worded to pass constitutional muster.
Not that passing constitutional muster has ever mattered to the Obama administration and its hired gunsels. My bet? Look for South Carolina to be next, or close to it, on the target line of states in the crosshairs for having the temerity to enforce federal immigration law that the feds chose to ignore.
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