Thread: What the Supreme Court’s E-Verify decision symbolizes.

June 1, 2011 12:00 A.M.
Yes, We Can Enforce
What the Supreme Court’s E-Verify decision symbolizes.

After it passed a robust immigration-enforcement measure last year, Arizona was practically expelled from the union.

The great and good denounced the state for its Gestapo tactics. The Obama administration sued it. The professionally outraged announced boycotts. Arizona stood condemned before the world, a byword for hatred and defiance of federal law.

And yet the Supreme Court last week implicitly ratified Arizona’s leadership role on immigration enforcement. It’s everyone else who is out of line, not Arizona.

The Supreme Court upheld the state’s requirement that businesses use the federal E-Verify system — a database accessible through the Internet — to confirm the legal status of employees. This is different from last year’s law saying that police should, when practicable, check the immigration status of suspected illegal immigrants, but the echoes are clear enough. The same critics (the business community and civil-rights groups) used the same tactics (loud condemnations and lawsuits) over the same essential issue (whether the state had gone beyond federal law).

Arizona passed the E-Verify law in 2007, and the Chamber of Commerce fought it all the way to the Supreme Court. The organization’s courtroom tenacity shows just how dangerous it is to get between the Chamber and its illegal employees. The dirty little secret of the Chamber is not, as the Democrats shamelessly alleged in the 2010 elections, Chinese money; it’s Mexican workers.

The Chamber maintained that Arizona had gone too far in requiring E-Verify because Congress had only made the program voluntary. But Congress didn’t forbid states from mandating the program. The Arizona law is careful to stay within the bounds set out by Congress. The punishment in Arizona for knowingly hiring illegal workers is the loss of a business license. Federal law says that states may “through licensing and similar lawsâ€

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ET AL.
v.
WHITING ET AL.

I'm gratified knowing that the Chamber of Commerce et al spent a lot of money fighting against common sense. I wish I knew the exact amount but I know you don't get to the Supreme Court for cheap.

Also, what does this say about Mr. Obama the attorney, who backed the COC against the Arizona bill? Confused about the Constitution is what I think about his reasoning.

Petitioner Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America
Arizona Contractors Association; Arizona Chamber of Commerce; Arizona Employers for Immigration Reform; Arizona Farm Bureau Federation; Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Arizona Landscape Contractors Associa-tion; Arizona Restaurant and Hospitality Association; Arizona Roofing Contractors Association; Associated Minority Contractors of America; National Roofing Contractors Association; Chicanos Por La Causa; Somos America; Valle Del Sol, Inc.;

Amicus Briefs

Brief for the National Immigrant Justice Center, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the American Immigration Council in Support of Petitioner
Brief for the Asian American Justice Center, the Anti-Defamation League, the Asian American Institute, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Law Caucus, Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, Latinojustice PRLDEF, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the League of United Latin American Citizens, Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center, Los Abogados Hispanic Bar Association, National Council of La Raza, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, National Employment Law Project, Southern Poverty Law Center in Support of Petitioner
Brief for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Support of Petitioner
Brief for Representative Romano L. Mazzoli, Senator Arlen Specter, and Representative Howard L. Berman in Support of Petitioner
Brief for Business Organizations in Support of Petitioner
Brief for the United States of America in Support of Petitioner (9th Circuit Court)

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Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

The dirty little secret of the Chamber is not, as the Democrats shamelessly alleged in the 2010 elections, Chinese money; it’s Mexican workers.

Even with more than 20 million Americans unemployed or involuntariy underemployed, the National Chamber of Commerce wants a bigger pool of desperate people.

It's not just the money. It's a matter of for whose benefit public policy is made. The National Chamber of Commerce wants policy to be made for the convenience of corporate executives.
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