MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama's attorney general has become the highest ranking Republican official to suggest throwing out parts of his state's tough new immigration law, as he recommended that lawmakers repeal some portions of the statute that have been put on hold by federal courts and clarify some others. In a letter to legislative leaders, Attorney General Luther Strange said the proposed changes would make the law easier to defend in court and "remove burdens on law-abiding citizens.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Representing 59 members of Congress and nearly 60,000 Americans, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) today urged the Supreme Court to hear a case involving the Obama Administration's challenge to several key provisions of Arizona's law targeting illegal immigration. In an amicus brief supporting Arizona's Petition for Writ of Certiorari - urging the high court to reverse the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - the ACLJ contends that Arizona's S.B.1070 is constitutional because it mirrors federal immigration law and incorporates federal standards. The state of Arizona acted appropriately and constitutionally when it took action to target illegal immigration," said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ. "This state la...
The last oral argument of the U.S. Supreme Court's term was an explosive one, as the justices considered whether SB 1070, the controversial Arizona immigration statute, is preempted by federal law. But with four of the eight justices who heard arguments in Arizona v. U.S. indicating that they favor upholding at least part of the law (Justice Elena Kagan recused herself, presumably due to her work on the case as solicitor general), the Obama administration may have to hope for a tie. That result would in effect be a win, because it would allow a lower court ruling blocking the law's implementation to stand.
Judicial Watch Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of Arizona State Legislature in Support of State of Arizona Supreme Court Petition WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Arizona State Legislature, supporting Arizona's petition to the Supreme Court to review the Obama administration's lawsuit against SB 1070, Arizona's illegal immigration enforcement law. On April 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction against enforcement of some of the law's provisions, prompting the State of Arizona's petition. (State of Arizona and Janice ...
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Then [Alison Newby] got personal. She recalled that morning a little more than one year ago, on February 28, 2009, when men came knocking on her door. Representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agents spirited away Newby's Cuban immigrant husband and charged him with an immigration law violation because of a prior drug conviction. Outside the couple's home where their two children witnessed the arrest, several SUVs with armed men awaited, in a deployment Newby said "seemed like overkill. Newby said her husband was finally released after spending nearly one year in detention; he still awaits final disposition of his case. "This is an extremely horrific Kafkaesque system," charged the sociologist. "It is ripping families apart....I don't know if we are any safer....
PHOENIX - The federal government took a momentous step into the immigration debate Tuesday when it filed a lawsuit seeking to throw out Arizonas crackdown on illegal immigrants, saying the law blatantly violates the Constitution. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Phoenix sets the stage for a high-stakes legal clash over states rights at a time when politicians across the country have indicated they want to follow Arizonas lead on the toughest-in-the- nation immigration law. The legal action represents a thorough denunciation by the government of Arizonas action, declaring that the law will cause the detention and harassment of authorized visitors, immigrants and citizens who do not have or carry identification documents while altogether ignoring humanitarian concerns and harming dip...
This Article challenges the conventional wisdom that the law had little to say about immigration before 1875. Instead, it offers a reframing of immigration law history as including what scholars have previously thought of as "settlement history": the immigration of whites to the western territories. The Article focuses on a particular group of immigrants-the so-called Mercer Girls-to explore both how the failure to invoke exclusionary immigration law and the presence of other kinds of laws (including homestead acts and anti-miscegenation statutes) functioned to shape the population of the nascent western territories. A close look at this type of immigration and this group of immigrants in particular facilitates a reconceptualization not only of narratives of American westward immigratio...
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