Thread: Illegals-law challenge rejected

Illegals-law challenge rejected

[color=darkred][b][i]Don’t think this battle is about race? Well, think again; but the issue of race doesn’t rest with OUR side.

Ask yourself one question. What interest does the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund in fighting laws about ILLEGAL aliens?

Why that question? The answer is that ALL Puerto Ricans are U.S. Citizens by default. There is no ILLEGAL alien issue associated with being a Puerto Rican, unless of course we’re talking about defending “La Razaâ€

Nov. 30, 2007, 11:24PM
Immigration crackdown challenge tossed
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday that challenged a suburban Washington county's recent effort to clamp down on illegal immigrants, one of the toughest such crackdowns in the country.

U.S. District Judge James Cacheris said the plaintiffs lacked legal standing to challenge measures passed earlier this year by the Prince William County Board of Supervisors.

One of resolution requires police to check the immigration status of people they detain if they have reason to suspect the person is an illegal immigrant. A second seeks to deny numerous county services to illegal immigrants, including business licenses, drug counseling, housing assistance and some services for the elderly.

County attorneys successfully argued that the plaintiffs could not show they had suffered from the measures, which have not yet been fully implemented.

Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart, a leading supporter of the crackdown, said he believes the county's plan may be replicated across the country now that it has withstood a legal challenge.

"Some of the best litigators in the country came up with the best arguments they could come up with ... and at the end of the day it was tossed out by a judge," Stewart said.

The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund sued the county on behalf of a group including legal and illegal immigrants and the Woodbridge Workers Committee, an organization of day laborers in Prince William County. As a whole, they argued that they would suffer racial discrimination from police who would suspect them of being illegal immigrants because they are Hispanic.

They also argued that Hispanic families are already suffering real harm, including the fear that parents who are illegal and children who are U.S. citizens born in this country will be split up.

Plaintiffs' lawyer Christina Sarchio said she is considering an appeal. Another option would be to refile the lawsuit with different plaintiffs who have been detained by police in connection with the new policy, she said.

Considered part of metropolitan Washington, Prince William County has seen its Hispanic population more than double since 2000, to nearly 70,000, according to Census Bureau estimates.

County officials appropriated $900,000 earlier this year to implement the police policies, and Stewart said he hopes to have the police program in place with trained officers by February.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/ ... 43821.html

Could the challenge to this law brought by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund be about anything else other than racial and ethnic solidarity? You tell me!
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Yes.....sorry.....but this is about race and an ethnic group who for some curious reason all have the same basic language. You can't say that with any other group. I mean we had to vote on a common language for all to get on the same page in this country. But just like there's this assumption that ALL whites are members of the KKK I have to hope that it isn't the belief held by all.

To think that they even have a peaceful co-existance together is a lie as well. They fight with each other as to who's best just like those who were white have. I know when I was little and we had no other race but white in our schools....we still had the Polish jokes and the Italian jokes and found some other means to torment the heck out of each other and cause seperation. Funny thing back then though.....latinos weren't considered a different race then. They spoke English too. Guess that's also why I don't get the hate. Suddenly people that have lived together in the past with no problem are suddenly enemies.

I guess I don't understand it all. Or maybe I do and just don't want to go through it again.

Originally Posted by crazybird

Could the challenge to this law brought by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund be about anything else other than racial and ethnic solidarity? You tell me!
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Yes.....sorry.....but this is about race and an ethnic group who for some curious reason all have the same basic language.

Funny thing back then though.....latinos weren't considered a different race then.

YES! I was thinking about that yesterday! Why are they saying this is a "race" issue when I've always considered Latinos as a white ethnic group. When I was growing up, there were 3 races: white, black, asian. Everything else was "cultural" or "ethnic origins". I'm 56, but still, it wasn't THAT LONG AGO! (haha)

Nice avatar, LNR. I feel like screaming often and frequently. I guess that would be frequently often.