Federal Judge Blocks Alabama’s New Immigration Law
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of Alabama’s new law cracking down on illegal immigration, ruling Monday that she needed more time to decide whether the law opposed by the Obama administration, church leaders and immigrant-rights groups is constitutional.
The brief order by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Blackburn means the law won’t take effect as scheduled on Thursday. The ruling was cheered by opponents who have compared the law to old Jim Crow-era statutes against racial integration.
But Blackburn didn’t address whether the law is constitutional, and she could still let all or parts of the law take effect later. The judge said she will issue a longer ruling by Sept. 28.
Instead, she said she needs more time to consider lawsuits filed by the Justice Department, private groups and individuals that claim the state is overstepping its bounds with the law.
Both supporters and opponents say Alabama‘s law is the nation’s toughest against illegal immigration. Among other things, it would require schools to verify the citizenship status of students. Officials say it wouldn’t prevent illegal immigrants from attending public schools.
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Comments (129)
NHABE64
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:55pmSharon Blackburn you are an idiot and you have betrayed the United States of American. Shame on you! I am so ashamed of you I wish I could tell you to your face. I don’t know what your price was to sell out but anyone and I mean ANYONE who would block an attempt of a state to protect its soverignty from ILLEGAL CRIMINALS has to have been either paid off or intimidated to do so. So what was YOUR price ? At least We the People now have yet another name to add to our list of traitors to America. Shame on you!
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:04pmWe don‘t need no stinkin’ badges. We need impeachments! Lot’s of impeachments!!
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:10pmI hear the sounds, of distant drums!!
Report Post »LiveNation
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:15pmChill out man, she didn’t strike it down, just said she needs more time to study the issues.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:19pmThe term ‘illegal immigrant’ is an oxymoron. It’s illegal alien, damit!
Maybe we should ‘flash mob’ this judge. We’re gonna have to do something sooner or later, people!!
Report Post »Strait Talk Express
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:25pmI think this is normal legislative/judicial interaction.
It works both ways, and gives the society breathing room before a new law goes into effect.
This law is going to require increased taxes. It needs to be proven 100% legitimate and constitutional before we raise taxes.
Report Post »kwatch
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:48pmwell if you want you can tell her to her phone message- 205-278-1700 that is the north ala district court number.
Report Post »Caniac Steve
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:08pmi agree but should we really be surprised ?? makes me want to immigrate to China. Why ?/ at least that governemnt inforces it’s laws !!
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:25pmFederal judges pee on our laws, and the will of the people…Barry’s aunt & uncle break our laws. Barry ignores/breaks our laws — and he’s our president?!? How many more Obamas are in our country illegally?
Report Post »R.I.P. America
Stuck_in_CA
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:03pmBy Mark Krikorian
Perry: Pay No Attention to That Amnesty Supporter Behind the Curtain!
Rick Perry’s letter earlier this month to DHS Secretary Napolitano demanding $349 million in compensation for having to house illegal-alien criminals is, I’m afraid, a political stunt — basically, shooting a coyote to distract attention from his bad immigration track record. And there’s a lot to distract attention from:
Perry supports amnesty for the illegal-alien population, wanting to relabel them “temporary” workers, while playing the same semantic game as other amnesty supporters in denying that his amnesty is an amnesty.
Report Post »Ten years ago he signed into law a measure offering taxpayer-funded in-state tuition subsidies for illegal aliens attending state universities (something he still supports).
He opposes the use of E-Verify even in hiring for state agencies. When challenged last year in a gubernatorial debate, he replied “E-Verify would not make a hill of beans’ difference when it comes to what’s happening in America today.”
He opposes fencing on the border, creating a false choice between fencing and personnel; as he said in his third inaugural speech: “We must secure the border with manpower, not unmanned walls.”… http://cis.org/krikorian/Perry-amnesty-supporter-behind-the-curtain
ashestoashes
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:22pmI wonder how you can get a federal judge removed from their position? Wouldn’t be nice to send her packing along with all the other “illegals” in office, along with the Puppet Master Soros?
Report Post »don young
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:39amI will bet she wasn,t payed of she probally is a dem.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 11:30amIs she actually studying the issues, or, is she awaiting marching orders from Eric Holder’s DOJ thugs?
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ACLUHater
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 2:50pmMore proof that liberalism is a mental disorder and should be monitored by Homeland Security…
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 12:42amThe judge is a republican. She is doing what is normally done. Did you read the complete article? Alabama motto: ‘We dare defend our rights’.
Report Post »babytork
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:51pmWe should ship them along with laraza back to the hell hole they have created and send the bill to the mexican gov.
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:54pmWait until some lib judge rules that the US Constitution is unconstitutional. I think its coming.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:12pmI hear the sounds, of distant drums. **
Report Post »Nathan
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:29pmAgreed
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:47pmAnonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:34pm
We don’t elect some of them, they are appointed and hard to get rid of
Report Post »*************************************************************
Unfortunately true.
Viet Vet
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:13pmI hear the sounds, of distant drums!! *
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:16pmTime to impeach the ones who cannot support the Constitution!
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:53pm@MORETEAPLEASE I think Obama has appointed, if not mistaken 2 pro-sharia law judges. Federal judges have to be appointed. If Obama stays in or they get someone else like him, and they can outlast the other judges…in all honesty..I don’t know how many more they need to overthrow our Constitution entirely. I was given information along with our Constitution it that supposedly states how judges can be removed..At least that is what I was told. There are anti- ACLU attorneys. They help Christian causes, fighting the ACLU. Would be nice to see them using what’s availabe to get rid of criminal judges. Didn‘t use to think it’s possible, but I think that there is a way.
Report Post »PaulfromTexas
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:44pmThe judge stressed that the ruling was a time thing and had nought to do with the merits of the case.
Report Post »BO_Bill
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:42pmNew World Order theory goes something like this. The American people are to be dumbed down through immigration of people with IQs in the 80s, and are to be made less cohesive through the mixing of the races. This sets the stage for a crisis where a small segment of society assumes authoritarian power and subjugates what remains of the American people. Henry Ford saw this coming and wrote an insightful and well reasoned series of papers on the subject two decades before the holocaust.
“In simple words, the question of the Jews has come to the fore, but like other questions which lend themselves to prejudice, efforts will be made to hush it up as impolitic for open discussion. If, however, experience has taught us anything it is that questions thus suppressed will sooner or later break out in undesirable and unprofitable forms.”
For those who honestly want to ‘question with boldness’ what is really being done to American society, and why, Mr. Ford’s perspective from 90 years ago is something to consider.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:00pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQf_QfitmKE&feature=player_detailpage
BoBill, you are right and much more that they want to do to America. This short video explains it all. Please watch!
Report Post »sweetcerise
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:39pmIt really is frustrating to hear these things…. As an American citizen, I am expected to follow the law and to be ready to accept punishment if i don’t, Why is it different for anyone here illegally?? does it somehow not really count as illegal???. so many bad human abuse issues happen to people caught in the dark underworld of illegal immigration
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:44pmYou have to follow the laws because
Report Post »a)your not a potential democrat voter
b)your probably white, and we know that in America today white people no longer count as a full person
Strait Talk Express
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:34pmI think this is normal. orderly lawful resistance is to be expected whenever a new law is being imposed.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:27pm“Both supporters and opponents say Alabama‘s law is the nation’s toughest against illegal immigration. Among other things, it would require schools to verify the citizenship status of students.”
Yeah, that sounds like a real tough issue, determining whether or not someone is an illegal immigrant. How can anyone expect this country to do anything like that?
Report Post »Strait Talk Express
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:37pmWhat if they were asking children to give testimony against their parent(s) with no legal representation?
This law will reduce the number of illegals who send their children to public school, which is probably the real value it holds for the tax burdened patriots of Alabama, who are broke.
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:46pmAt LEAST till after the election!
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 1:50amAll schools require certified birth certificates, vaccination papers, etc. –
but we are now supposed to make an exception for ILLEGAL ALIENS and their children.
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If illegal aliens have access to phony IDs, they can also have access to phony vaccination papers.
Report Post »GrizzlyAdams
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:37pmActually, I know someone who works in a school system near where I live in Birmingham, AL- and they say that they are not ALLOWED to ask the status of those children. They are not ALLOWED to ask for IMMUNIZATION cards, nationality, or anything of that nature. All they have to do is provide a current utility bill with an address that is within the school zone….English as a Second Language is now part of the general curriculum where I graduated from school only 8 years ago. It has happened that fast….Somone said above that it will mainly act as a deterrent. I hope that is all that it is. My only concern is this….when this bill does get passed in some form, I hope that all of those people complaining about the illegal’s taking jobs and living off of our tax dollars put their money where their mouth is. I better see a lot of middle class America doing manual labor that the illegals are so famous for down here in the South.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:23pmWe are the only country in the world that allows people to cross our borders and take over our country. Obviously many here don’t care enough aobut America to defend her.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:32pmEspecially judges, let the murders go and slap any patriot with your power. Maybe we should be more careful of who we give that power. PC and fad voting got us here.
Report Post »Donald Barnes
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:33pmSIR: Sorry but you are wrong.
Report Post »What about ISRAEL ?
Viet Vet
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:16pmWhat about europe?
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:22pmWe have given the politicians and the judges way too much power over the last 4 decades or so, and it is time that we pull back on the reigns…hard.
They all feel that they are somehow entitled to the positions they hold and the fat salaries they collect from them. They seem to forget that WE elect them to those positions and OUR taxes pay those fat salaries.
As I stated in an earlier post, they are drunk with power and feel bullet proof. It’s time for a rehab session.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:34pmWe don’t elect some of them, they are appointed and hard to get rid of.
Report Post »hud
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:26pmWhere‘s Woody Harrelson’s dad when you need him?
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:15pmGetting really, really tired about states wanting to take illegal immigration into their own hands ( rightly so, since the govt won’t do anything ), and it get knocked down by judges! What gives?
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:23pmI think if illegals make it all the way to Alabama…they should be shot.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:28pmThey need to get a freaking backbone and start ignoring these illegal orders. These judges are not gods that overrule the people. I say call their bluff and ignore them. Proceed as normal.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:24pmI have to agree with you mil-dot. We need to start ignoring any law that is unconstitutional, or any judge’s ruling that flies in the face of the Constitution. We need to start reinserting self-government. The Founders believed and said, that congress has much of an equal right to interpret the constitution as the courts do. The founders knew they had to have a court system, but they looked on the system with foreboding. They knew that the courts were the primary danger to the Republic they were establishing.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:15pmIt just depends whether or not she is a Democrat or Republican. That’s all that needs to be said.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:31pmThese illegal alieans are not American citizens. They are not entitled to the protection of the constitution. They should not be here in the first place. Ignore the ruling. Call their bluff. Let’s see how much power they really have.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:36pmThey are not entitled to our tax money, nor the education provided by our tax money, nor the welfare, provided by our tax money. Hell, if we stopped all funding of illegals in this country, we could take a huge chunk off of our debt.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:38pmAnonymous T Irrelavant..Granted..if we stopped all funding to illegals, there would be no more problems. They would go home. I wonder if the same could be said for the judges, the pres, his czars and his cabinet. Tax payers are funding this whole communist oganism. We are self-destructing.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:15pmThey are still here illegally! What part of send them back home do they not understand. Oooh they have to show ID for proof of citizenship to be in school. What, is this an invasion on their rights? They are not citizens! Deport them now.
Report Post »Strait Talk Express
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:40pmThey are supposed to be detained in new “privatized” family prisons, owned by the corporations who wrote this bill for Alabama and many other districts, including the state of Arizona and Beverly Hills City.
Report Post »Schmuckatelli1997
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:10pmI don’t understand where the problem is:
Report Post »The feds set the rules for how they come in the country. They enforce or not enforce the rules as they see fit (I however think that if a law is on the books it should be enforced vigorously and if the citizenry don’t like it they use our political system and get it changed.)
The states control how they are treated and what they can and can’t do when they come into any particular state. Because once the criminal and they are criminals cross the arbitrary line that is the international border then it becomes a state issue.
The only thing that feds control is the international borders not what happens inside the states.
I do not understand the never end need of the feds to over step their authority.
DonnaA
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:09pmWHAT DO YOU MEAN??? “IF ITS CONSTITUTIONAL” This judge is in NObama’s pocket!
Report Post »stumblemouth
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:08pmThe law is already successful. Illegals in AL are flooding passport offices with applications for their anchor babies, and in one county a chicken processing plant let the illegals go and hired actual Americans. Of course, the left will legislate through the courts if they don’t get their evil way.
Report Post »MBA
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:08pmExcuse me but illegal is unconstitutional. Get your head out of your liberal * s s and get the freakin’ illegals out of this country. If they want the privilege of US laws–come to this country legally. Dumb * s s e s.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:08pmGo, ALABAMA. I
Report Post »I‘d almost bet that the judge is waiting for the pay off that hasn’t come in yet to buy her ruling…..
I SPY
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:07pmTake note and vote.
Report Post »NJTMATO
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:04pmJudges……if nothing else, Judges are the reason we need a new President. I’m hoping our Justices at the Supreme Court can hold on until the next administration to uh ummm leave the bench. I’d hate to see another appointee of BO sit on the Bench.
Report Post »does this burka make me look fat?
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:04pmIt’s pretty obvious that these judges and the anti-LEGAL immigration people have never been impacted personally by the illegals coming into this country committing crimes. I lived in Phoenix, AZ. for 20 years. It got to where we had to leave if we wanted to feel safe again. My son had more friends die in Phoenix then he did during his year long tour in Irag. These judges and anti-LEGAL immigration people need to spend time in the border states and not as visitors in cushy hotels. Walk down the streets of Tempe, AZ…Mesa, AZ….Phoenix, AZ….Tucson, AZ. See how safe you feel then. They’ll be asking themselves….”Where’s my gun!!”
Report Post »hologram5
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:06pmFunny too that “Legal” immigrants don’t want this amnesty anymore than we citizens do. They expect the new-comers to go through the same steps that the legal ones did.
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:52pmHologram, some of them don’t. However most legal Hispanic immigrants do, because they see it in terms of a nationalistic/racial issue. If they can get enough hispanics in this country to change the voting trends, then they can elect nothing but hispanic politicians and we will become the cesspools they came from. If only whites were as loyal towards other whites as every other racial group out there is to one another, then we wouldn’t be facing all these problems today that we have.
Report Post »fishstx777
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:03pmThis is where I differ from republicans and its a huge difference, before you blame the liberals,this judge was appointed by george bush,or should I say jorge bush.Do you really think she was going to do anything different.Mr amnestys cronie
Report Post »Steel Awesome
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:57pmAnother stall tactic initiated by the doers of evil in the White House.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:15pmDamn It !! They are NOT Immigrants, They are illegal’s and
Report Post »NOT entitled to NADA, PERIOD, NADA..Gawd Damed Libo’s
WAKE UP…..IMPEACH OBAMA, NOW…..
He is a Constitutional LAW Professor, MSNBC say’s he is the
most intelligent president ever…can’t prove it by Me….
Corruption and Special Interest, Order of The Day .for Obama..
sWampy
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:56pmWe really need to go back to old justice, these activists judges need to be tarred and feathered and ridden from the nation on a rail.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:34pmYou got it Swamp. They need to be put in their place.
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:46pmWe have created such a police state today that we could no longer do these types of things without facing long prison terms. The only way to fix this country is either through full collapse or by flooding the prison system so bad the feds no longer have a way to detain you.
Report Post »boca_chica
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:54pmIf the feds won’t do it, the states will-somebody needs to remind the feds that they only control the boarder lines, not the internal state.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:36pmI hear that the illegal aliens are gearing up for a civil war in this country. I hear they think CA, AZ, NM, NV belong to them and think they are going to take them by force.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:32pmObama, Eric and Janet will let IT happen…
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