| | Portions of Arizona's controversial immigration law
go into effect
By the CNN Wire Staff
July 29, 2010 3:02 a.m. EDT
The injunction, issued Wednesday, means that, at least for now, police are prevented from questioning people's immigration status if there is reason to believe they are in the country illegally.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton also blocked provisions of the law making it a crime to fail to apply for or carry alien registration papers or "for an unauthorized alien to solicit, apply for, or perform work," and a provision "authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person" if there is reason to believe that person might be subject to deportation.
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The parts of the law that go into effect include a ban on so-called sanctuary cities, and the criminalization of hiring day laborers who are in the country illegally. The parts of the law dealing with sanctions for employers who hire illegal immigrants also withstood the first legal test.
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America was founded by people who got around pernicious laws. Over 100 years before the so-called "Revolution" this was created usurping the right of the crown to strike coins:
I put "Revolution" in quotes because it did not begin in July 1776, but 20 years earlier, if not before. The Albany Plan of Union itself rested on perceptions that were born before the French-Indian Wars. In another 100 years, abolitionists ignored and defied an immoral law. My uncles served in World War II. One of them was a chaplain's assistant. According to US Military Protocol no flag ever flies higher than the American flag, except the chaplain's flag when services are being held. "One nation under God...." That means that political law must remain inferior to moral law.
There never were any immigration laws until the Progressive Era. Eugenicists, nativists, jingoists, education pragmatists, and other socialists of all kinds, thought that American was too individualistic. They wanted to create a national culture on par with Germany, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom.
"When they came for the other guys, I did not speak up..."
First, Chinese and other Asians were restricted, prohibited from entering, and those who were born here were legally denied citizenship. Even the Great Dissenter of Plessey-Ferguson, John Marshall Harlan, said that orientals should never become Americans.
In 1920, at the peak of Italian immigration, Italians were limited. When my mother told me about the concentration camps in America for Americans whose grandparents or parents or who themselves accidentally came from a country with which America was at war, I asked "Why didn't they put us in concentration camps?" She said, "They needed our labor for their steel mills." My family was Republican.
When Byron and Shelley went to Greece, they did not carry UK passports. Passports of a fashion existed before World War One, but they were finally put into general service because European nations feared spies crossing borders. Most people went wherever they wanted without permission, though "undesirables" of any kind could always be stopped at any border. (You can't let a million guys in uniform come in, right? Though, on the other hand "military observers" and other military liaisons were arranged for.)
The idea that "this is the law and they need to obey it" would apply to the Sherman and Clayton Acts, would it not?
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