Thread: Court voids Hazleton, Pa., law targeting illegal immigrants

Court voids Hazleton, Pa., law targeting illegal immigrants

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By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY


A crowd gathers in June 2007 in support of Mayor Lou Barletta in front of City Hall in Hazelton, Pa.

A Hazleton, Pa., law that targeted illegal immigrants and served as a model for similar laws around the country was struck down by a federal appeals court Thursday.

The law, passed in 2006 but held up by lawsuits, would have allowed the city to revoke the licenses of businesses that employed illegal immigrants and fine landlords who rented to them. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled that the law infringed on the federal government's exclusive power to regulate immigration.
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"It is, of course, not our job to sit in judgment of whether state and local frustration about federal immigration policy is warranted," wrote Chief Judge Theodore McKee. "We are, however, required to intervene when states and localities directly undermine the federal objectives embodied in statutes enacted by Congress."
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Mayor Lou Barletta said the city will appeal.

"This ruling is a loss for Hazleton and its legal residents," he said. "It is also a blow to the rights of the legal immigrants who choose to call Hazleton their home."

The ruling follows the July decision by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton to halt Arizona's immigration-enforcement law, which would have required police officers to determine the immigration status of suspects stopped for another offense if there was "reasonable suspicion" they were in the country illegally. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer is appealing that decision.
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The Hazleton law was the model for similar laws passed around the country, said Omar Jadwat, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project, who argued against the Hazleton law before the appeals court.

After 84 state immigration laws of different kinds were passed in 2006, more than 200 were passed by state legislatures in each of the next three years, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

"I think it's especially significant that the parent of all of these laws has been pretty conclusively found unconstitutional by a federal court of appeals," Jadwat said.

Gabriel Chin, a University of Arizona Rogers College of Law professor, said those rulings will halt the wave of immigration laws as legislators realize the costs of defending them.

"They are going to put the brakes on around the country on anti-immigrant legislation because it begins to look like a costly proposition," Chin said.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates tighter immigration controls, said Thursday's ruling "makes it almost certain" that the Supreme Court will weigh in on states trying to enforce immigration law.

Another Arizona law passed in 2007 that fined businesses hiring illegal immigrants has been upheld by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear that case this year.

Meanwhile, Krikorian said, Thursday's ruling will help Barletta, a Republican who is running for Congress, and others who argue that they are trying to enforce immigration laws in the absence of federal action. That strategy has propelled Brewer's popularity in Arizona as she fights the lawsuit led by the Justice Department.

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The Courts will continue to reaffirm that immigration is a "federal domain' and the feds will continue to do nothing regarding this invasion except refuse to do anything or dely deporting invaders as long as possible.

Get the picture yet! This country does not want our immigration laws enforced! Is there any other way to see it?

Are all the judges in Obama's pocket?

Yes they are obama has them in his pocket you hit the nail On the head

Are all the judges in Obama's pocket?

This judge was appointed by Clinton as was the judge in Arizona.


Another Judge, Another Immigration Law
September 10, 2010 8:41 A.M. By Mark Krikorian
The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Hazleton, Pa., may not punish employers or landlords that hire or rent to illegal aliens based on the fanciful claim that Congress has preempted that authority. A few observations. First, this, combined with the Arizona ruling, makes it more likely the Supreme Court will eventually weigh in on the preemption issue. Second, since the whole question of preemption relates to Congress — i.e., Congress decides which parts of immigration law are its exclusive jurisdiction — then this ruling suggests a necessary and politically attractive plank for November’s election: that a Republican Congress would clarify what the states and localities are, and are not, permitted to do with regard to immigration enforcement.

And finally, this ruling is a gift to Lou Barletta, mayor of Hazleton, author of the law being litigated, and candidate for Congress against a septuagenarian 25-year incumbent Democrat whom Barletta has challenged twice before. In a district that went for Obama by more than 10 points, a poll last month showed Barletta up by 11, and this ruling by a Democrat judge is just another inducement for Barletta supporters to Fight the Power with their contributions, their time, and their votes.


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It is, of course, not our job to sit in judgment of whether state and local frustration about federal immigration policy is warranted," wrote Chief Judge Theodore McKee. "We are, however, required to intervene when states and localities directly undermine the federal objectives embodied in statutes enacted by Congress

It is the states and its people who created the Federal government

This principle was formalized in 1788 with the ratification of the Constitution. That document — still the supreme law of the United States — became the foundation of a federal government that allowed the several states to act together as one, while protecting the sovereignty of each individual state.

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed." — Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence

Time after time in the past 8-10 years it appears that large portion of judgments come down on the side of non-citizens, what is odd in my mind it seems to have escalated since 9/11. it does not matter the issue it appears the American citizen has been moved to the back of the bus, the overall reasons of this I'm not sure while they coat it in diversity or Constitutional issues those in power seem to have another agenda.