DOJ Sues Alabama for Enforcing Immigration Law

2 Aug

DOJ Sues Alabama for Enforcing Immigration Law

Posted 02/08/2011 by sfcmac in Border Security, Homeland Security, Illegal aliens, Leftist moonbats, Politics. 2 Comments

Welcome to Holder’s idea of justice. Suing states for enforcing federal laws that the federal government refuses to enforce, while gunrunning to Mexican thugs.

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Alabama’s new controversial immigration law, essentially fighting Alabama on grounds similar to its legal battle with Arizona over that state’s controversial law.

In both cases, the Justice Department argues that the states are overstepping their authority by wading into something that is a strictly federal responsibility: immigration enforcement.

Gov. Robert Bentley signed the Alabama law in June, but it’s not set to take effect until Sept. 1. The law makes it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant in Alabama and allows law enforcement to detain individuals they have a “reasonable suspicion” of being in the country illegally. The law also makes it illegal to give undocumented immigrants rides and requires school districts to check on the immigration status of students who enroll.
The law is modeled on Arizona’s immigration law, parts of which have been blocked by federal court. It’s said to be the strictest state-level immigration law in the country.

The Justice Department, in its filing, says a state cannot set its own immigration policy and cannot pass laws that conflict with federal immigration laws.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/01/justice-department-sues-alabama-over-controversial-immigration-law/

Obama has decreed that the feds don’t have to obey the law.

The illegal alien cabal in Obama’s administration thumbs their nose at Federal statutes and harasses the states that are doing the job the Feds won’t do.