Next open-borders/DOJ target: Fremont, Nebraska; Update: Holder to file AZ suit next week
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The lawsuits are already in the works. Every town, every state that rises up against immigration chaos and takes enforcement into its own hands must be punished, if the open-borders lobby and White House have their way.
Fremont, Nebraska, here they come:
This small Nebraska meatpacking town has joined Arizona at the center of a national debate about illegal immigration after voters approved a ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants, but an expected court challenge could keep the measure from ever taking effect.
The American Civil Liberties Union already has promised to file a lawsuit to block enforcement of the proposal roughly 57 percent of Fremont voters supported Monday.
“In a community of 25,000, it’s going to be hard to take on the whole country, and it will be costly to do so,” said Fremont City Councilman Scott Getzschman, who opposed the measure but said city leaders would support the results.
Fremont’s vote is the latest chapter in the tumult over illegal immigration across the country, including a recently passed Arizona law that will require police investigating another incident or crime to ask people about their immigration status if there’s a “reasonable suspicion” they are in the country illegally.
The Fremont measure will require would-be renters to apply for a license from the city. Officials must refuse to issue a license to applicants found to be in the country illegally. The ordinance also requires businesses to use the federal E-Verify database to ensure employees are allowed to work.
Citizens in Washington state are collecting signatures to put E-Verify on the ballot there.
The revolt continues.
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Update: ABC News reports that the long-telegraphed DOJ suit against Arizona will be filed next week.
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I hope every state gets the AZ, fed, law. Illegal aliens are in almost every state. We citizens need to ask our elected to deal with this since the feds won’t.
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letget,
I also hope towns and cities across America pass ordanances like this. Will the politicians take note, listen, and get tough on illegal immigration? Of course they won’t. They don’t listen on anything else.
However, if hundreds of cities and towns pass local ordanances like Freemont’s it can force the ACLU and DOJ to fight them all. Overwhelm THEIR system for a change. Bleed them white.
Its like a form of “civil disobedience” that has worked in the past.
Flyoverman said,
However, if hundreds of cities and towns pass local ordinances like Freemont’s it can force the ACLU and DOJ to fight them all. Overwhelm THEIR system for a change. Bleed them white.
very well put, as the aclu and the equally disgusting doj deserve to be put out of commission, since neither serves any useful purpose.
I’m still trying to figure out why it’s my job as an employer to ensure (at not trivial cost) the person is here legally. Further, if I hire them, we can determine by the severity of the penalties handed down, it appears that my offense is worse then the original offense of them coming here illegally in the first place. If the feds did their job, the person wouldn’t be here and I wouldn’t be potentially always in trouble. (Everybody who works here is here legally). Further, it’s my job as an employer to make sure every one of the employees has the proper amount of taxes withheld at zero compensation to me for doing the government’s job. I’m responsible to make sure that any materials we use are also here legally. So what I conclude – the government is only good at forcing to get me to do their work. If I fail, I’m liable, but if they fail – well just ask them, they don’t fail.
The fact that this administration is actively trying to undermine the States who are being proactive regarding immigration enforcement, lends credence to the one-on-one Kyl had with Obama. They are afraid that if the states do the job the administration is failing to do, then comprehensive immigration reform wither on the vine.
This was an excellent job by the citizens of Fremont, but it may be too little too late. Obama Reid and Pelosi can’t get the votes for Amnesty so Obama is said to be considering Amnesty by Executive Order. This guy wants to rule not govern. November 2012 can’t come fast enough.
I like that strategy.
And for smaller towns like Fremont, they should open a legal defense fund to which we can contribute to help them out.
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The DOJ is going to need more lawyers. Rogue, where’s the popcorn?
The States need to take back their Sovereignity! The very survival of the U.S. of A. depends on it! (munching popcorn) More cheese Gromit!
DOJ suing Arizona: Why (didn’t) doesn’t Arizona sue the government? Maybe a state can’t??
Anyway, Flyover, you made a great point.
Does that mean Holder actually read the Arizona law?
Does that mean he also read the Constitution?
On HA, ABC has doj will sue AZ next week. This whole thing makes me sick! I pray Gov. Brewer will not cave to this bho and team. I guess this will take the heat off this bho for the gulf mess he can’t handle. Now we will be talking about the AZ lawsuit. Gads, I detest this bho!
L
I don’t know about that.
In the case of Crandell vs Nevada (73 US 35), Mr. Crandell owned a stagecoach line. Nevada taxed each person leaving the state 1 dollar. Crandell sued and won his case in front of the Supreme Court. However, Mr. Crandell never appeared. His claim was that he couldn’t afford to pay the tax!
Brilliant strategy. Maybe these cities and other localities should take the same course when the ACLU Nazis sue them. Have a lawyer show up, but never a representative of the city/locality and claim the ACLU suit has cost them too much.
In some form, it may work.
It is getting to the point where states may begin to “opt out” of the federal system. How does the federal Gov’t even have the right to sue individual states and why can’t they just ignore it saying the fed is overstepping their bounds? Anyone with law experience and/or constitutional scholars? (real ones, not fabricated ones.)
Can it be any clearer now that not only the ACLU and other socialist/communist organizations but also this administration, are intent on destroying this country? Of course they think they are, in Obama’s own words, making a “radical transformation” into paradise on Earth under The Won where everyone’s place in society will be determined by government.
I think it was the Czech President who said that Obama’s not so much the problem as are the millions of fools and knaves who elected him, which represents a rising tide of ignorance and malignity towards our freedoms which once lost will not be easily regained, if ever.
Does anyone really believe the Federal Government, (Repubs And Dems) who could not be bothered to check if Obama was even eligible, would actually enforce immigration laws?
Why should citizens of other countries have to show documentation when the guy in the White House doesn’t?
I get the feeling that if the “Progressives” and traitorous government elites get their teeth kicked in often enough, that they will figure out that the American people really do want their laws enforced.
We need a good old-fashioned purge of all the marxists out of our government. Make them all sign a pledge to uphold the law and the Constitution as a condition of employment.
Michelle, Doug, someone…? We need a thread about Gen McChrystal being about to get fired.
Sorry – off topic – But you have to follow this story:
McChrystal and some of his senior advisers are quoted criticizing top administration officials, at times in starkly derisive terms. An anonymous McChrystal aide is quoted as calling national security adviser James L. Jones a “clown,” who remains “stuck in 1985.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/22/AR2010062200813_pf.html
Dexter is on it too….
And what do the owners of the meat packing companies think of this ordinance? In all likelihood they will loose a fair amount of their inexpensive workforce.
The rule of unintended consequences always prevails.
No one, and by that I mean, Republicans and Democrats, are willing to enforce the existing laws. Deport the illegals that are caught and fine employers.
We don’t need any new laws when the old ones aren’t enforced. What makes anyone think that the new law will be enforced?
Enforce the current law.
And yet again we have evidence of a corrupt federal government acting against the People of the United States.
Are you talking about the unintended consequence of having to hire legal Americans? I have only one thing to say about that:
Waah.
Don’t forget, we taxpayers subsidise the aclu.
Tax dollars to sue.
Tax dollars to defend.
What a hell-uv-a system we have ….
I thought the meatpacking was mostly Muslims?
So let me get this straight. The ACLU or DOJ may sue a Nebraska town for using the federal government’s tool for verifying immigration status?
Answer does not compute. Illogical. Norman, coordinate.
Obama/Biden: Si se pueda! Cut and run losers. Giving away Iraq and Afghanistan, and now the entire SW United States. Lovely. Leave the defense of America to Arizona, Texas, and small townships in Nebraska. Losers.
Zz, the point as I see it, is to actually enforce the laws at the state level BECAUSE the feds will not. I would say those who are side-stepping the fed will enforce the law for the same reason.
You make some very good points Rus. If the Feds did their job and legal responsibility, there would be no need for the time consuming and onerous job it would put on the employer.
This is part of what I think of when I hear “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”.
* Verify legal status to employ
* Verify legal status to rent/sell to
* Verify legal status for education
* Verify status of criminals- deport illegals
* Verify legal status for welfare benifits
* Path to citizenship = go home and get in line!
* BUILD THE D@MN WALL!
There is no right to cheap labor in the US. There is a requirement — already in Federal law — that requires non-nationals to acquire permission before being able to hold a job here.
If a business owner builds a business upon dubious or questionable labor, shouldn’t they be required to suffer for the lack of foresight or carelessness? And… by tolerating illegal employment this places law abiding employers at a competitive disadvantage.
Lesson learned 40 years ago:
“Never have a Democrat on your flank.”
What did the southern cotton farmers think about losing their inexpensive workforce in the mid-19th century? Why does it matter?
The new laws will have different enforcers than the old laws. Did you really not understand that?
I totally agree with McCrystal’s comments, but he shouldn’t have made them. The war in Afghanistan is lost. Our soldiers are not allowed to even fight it, and with the timetable for withdrawal, there is no way to win this. We won’t get any locals on our side as long as they know we are going to abandon them next year. How STUPID
Oops…I hit the send button before I was don. How STUPID is this POTUS??? I think McCrystal threw himself under the bus to get his point across. I know he apologized, but I don’t think he is sorry he said those things.
The last time Amnesty was passed, in 1986, it came along with a new law:
Anyone who has started a new job in the last 23+ years has been legally required, by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, to fill out an I-9 form and supply the necessary hardcopy documentation.
How about enforcing current Federal Immigration Law that has been on the books for over 23 years?
You will note that that law does not make any exception for any employee. There is no exception for President.
Where is Obama’s I-9 Form? If he has not submitted an I-9, along with the necessary hardcopy documentation, then he is violation of Federal Immigration Law.
What does the federal E-Verify database have to say about
Barack Hussein Obama II?
Michelle, here is some more info on I-1056 as well as a link to their website.
They will have to pay more for the people they hire which will cause costs to rise, but you are forgetting the flip side to this.
If illegals cant get work they go home. If they are not here then they are not a strain on our services. The extra we would have to pay for goods is offset in the savings we see in services such as overcrowded schools, overcrowded emergency rooms, reduced welfare rolls, etc…
Good list. But I would add what I beleive is the most important point, ELIMINATE THE MISINTERPRETATION OF THE 14th AMENDMENT and STOP BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. That alone causes more trouble than anything in cleaning the nation of these invaders. They hold up the anchor babies as shields trying to pull at the heart strings of gullible Americans. Ever wonder why you see spanish speaking couples with 5, 4, 3, 2 year old children with them while pushing a baby carriage? Because that is their avoid deportation insurance.
Also, the Europeans were intelligent enough to see the problem with birthright citizenship and abolished it. So did liberal Canada.
On June 22nd, 2010 at 10:55 am, Virginia Patriot said:
I just saw your comment.
+1
A new post I wrote yesterday:
“Answer does not compute. Illogical.
Norman, coordinate.”
That’s a pretty far reach there Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
Great. We need more and more of this.
Obama refuses to enforce any immigration law and refuses to protect American citizens by willfully neglecting border security, so Americans will take this matter into their own hands.
It’s too much to hope that NJ or any town here will do the same. But the more forceful local and state governments become, the better off wew ill all be, regardless of the hypocritical lawsuits Obama and his minions file or talk about.
Folks, we WANT the law suit. Its the one thing that puts all this to bed. In the process of the law suit the truth, the whole truth, the actual law, etc., will come out.
WE WANT THE SUIT.
Bring it on Obama…..
How true. I read McCrystal’s comments and thought, “they are all exactly true”. However, being a retired vet, I remember well what you risk when “making waves” against the political establishment who view themselves as all-knowing, all-perfect and never worthy of ridicule. The road is littered with the carcasses of military who have dared criticise their civilian political bosses. But, sometimes you just have to speak out, or you will self-destruct under the blatant idiocy.
All Obama has to do to prove Kyl is misrepresenting the thing is to put the appropriate amount of troops at the border to shut it down, kick out the drug dudes, and shut down the highway of access through park land.
Want to bet who is telling the truth however?
Toast at a future Dining In:
“To the coke-snorting, terrorist-friendly, Islam defending, Marxist seeking, in-eligible Commander in Chief.”
here, here.
God Bless Fremont, Nebraska. Yes indeed, abolish birthright citizenship for illegals, temps, tourist and CongressCritters. Make it retroactive to 1961; E-verify Bambi.
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Let your sidearm be like Master Card:
Don’t Leave home without it.
“sometimes you just have to speak out”
He isn’t stupid. The general knew what he was doing. My hat’s off to him because he at least is taking action that will hopefully protect the troops he leads. May cost him his job but good for the general.
The pattern is clear. No one can tell the truth and go unpunished.
Forgot that one! Thanks, WC.
‘Course, since government has nothing except for what it extorts/confiscates from citizens, it will actually be bleeding ourselves white.
That being said, the same idea had crossed my mind, and I am all for it – let the fascists/socialists/statists/America-haters file suits against hundreds and thousands of municipalities.
Ask? Nope the time for “asking” is over..It’s time to demand that our border be secured and that all illegal aliens be deported without exception!! Jobs for legal Americans not invaders!!
Most Americans will read the rules of disengagement that our putting OUR best and brightest at risk, killing them in fact, will agree with the general and in one more way Obama will be seen more clearly.
No matter how this goes, its not good for Obama but is good for our troops and for our country.
Obama shoots himself in the foot yet one more time….
In other words, you are guilty until proven innocent.
As a doc, I face similar heartburn.
The governemnt has the guns.
That’s why they can force us to play heads-they-win,-tails-we-lose.
tiredofit08#52,
I stand corrected. You are right, we need to demand this and tell the elected this is a major point for our voting for them. These illegal aliens are costing us billions a year for them to be here in welfare, housing, schools, food, and health care.
L
Because the Federal Government’s job is to punish Americans to the advantage of non-Americans. . .
I hope they ask me to send them more in taxes for all they do for Americans.
Unemployment STILL thru the roof
Oil spill in gulf STILL gushing
# of US Soldiers dying in Afghanistan STILL going up.
Murders/drug smuggling in Arizona STILL rising.
yet all obuma has the time to sue a state trying to help it’s own people.
Change you can believe in.
I’ll take “Trouble with Tribbles” over illegal aliens anytime!
jsmiddleton4 and Rogue
I’m impressed.
I hope Arizona fights back the Chicago Way and withholds all funds that are supposed to be sent to the Federal Government. And I hope that the Red States follow in their footsteps and does the same thing until the DoJ drops this silly lawsuit.
Wasn’t that Simon Legree’s argument? Yes indeed this “inexpensive workforce” drives down all blue collar wages, ads to crime, welfare and school expenses but your hero Simon Legree did well for awhile-keep off the ice
I’m a bit of America 1st, vindictive SOB, so in order not to ruin my reputation I hope every “Hope and Changey” dumb a$$ that voted for Odopo pays a heavy price for their stupidity. Now no, that’s isn’t going to fix the mess they got us in but it will make me feel one hell of a lot better.
If Obumbo’s debt commission recommends and Obumbo and the congress pass into law a VAT sometime after the November elections, all tax consumers will suddenly become tax payers. I don’t like the idea of a VAT, but we can sure use more people pushing the wagon instead of sitting on it.
This defies logic. The gov has ignored its responsibility outlined by the Constitution to protect the American public to pander for votes to maintain the current power grab. Holder wants to win a court case by violating the Constitution again. At what point can we prosecute the members of this administration for crimes against the American public? Where is the line that gets crossed? Voting them out of office just isn’t enough.
Megyn Kelly/Fox News just broke the story that Mexico is going to sue our gubmint over the AZ law. That is more b#lls than I’ve ever seen before. With a nutty judge who can imagine where this thing could go?
I swear on my Bible – I will not ever step foot again in Mexico, nor will I ever purchase another item from Mexico, I will do everything I can to discourage others from doing so, and any commercial business I walk into where there is an employee with an accent I’m leaving. Could some of those be legal immigrants. Heck yea, and too bad. I’m done with Mexico’s push/shove against my country and it’s citizens.
I just saw on Fox news that mexico is filing suit against AZ also. NOW isn’t that special? How in the world can a country file suit against our Republic? I bet holder is on speed dial with the slug slime pres. in mexico about this and giving him the ‘way to go’!
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letget – I too was watching and it’s another one of those ‘you can’t make this crapola up’ moments. Someone with access to photoshop and a clever mind needs to make up a oath to boycott Mexico over this incident. We need to get it out there.
a oath s/b = an oath
Turnabout is fair play. Howz about the states suing Mexico for the cost of the welfare, healthcare, other state benefits & the costs of imprisoning Mexican citizens who are in the country illegally?
Unlikely the states will do that. However, what about a group of U.S. tax payers filing a similar suit against Mexico as a class action suit? Anyone with a legal background care to let me know if that is possible?
Okay, Mexico. You win. We’ll just adopt your laws regarding those illegally in your country.
Happy now?
Is Eric The Red about to get skooled again? How many times “at-bats” (or in his case, “at moon-bats”) does he get before he is canned?
These guys are real clowns!
I just saw the headline at MSNBC
“Nebraska passes harsh anti-immigration law”
I know I shouldn’t be surprised but I get so tired of the constant mis-information fed us by the MSM
MSM = State Run Media – The new American Pravda.
By the way has anyone heard about the possible endrun TEH WON may do? If Congress fails to get amnesty through, TEH WONE may issue an executive order granting blanket amnesty for 15-20 million new Democrat voters and then deal with the fallout.
I wanted to see what the blogs were saying as opposed to the media. Found a Democrap blog whose arguments were so bogus, so incredibly stupid that a child could see through them. Lots of snide remarks about Arizona. Thought about leaving a link to a news story whose source is far from conservative but it’s awaiting moderation. Bet it never sees the light of day.
>> TEH WONE may issue an executive order granting blanket amnesty…
I worry about our president sometimes. He dances close to the line where some may decide that constitutional government must be restored by any means necessary.