rssDOJ Sues Arizona Over Immigration Practices, Again
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 8:39 am
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The Justice Department filed another suit Monday against Arizona for immigration actions by its officials, claiming a network of community colleges engaged in illegal discriminatory practices toward noncitizens.
Justice officials said Phoenix-area Maricopa Community Colleges violated the federal Immigration and Nationality Act by requiring noncitizens to provide green cards before they could be hired, the Washington Post reported. The suit argues the community colleges went beyond the legal requirements for determining eligibility status in its requirements of nearly 250 noncitizen job applicants, the Washington Post reported:
The law’s antidiscrimination provision “makes it unlawful to treat authorized workers differently during the hiring process based on their citizenship status,” said Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for Justice’s Civil Rights Division. He said the government “is acting now to remedy this pattern or practice of discrimination.” [...]
It is the latest example of stepped-up enforcement by the department’s Civil Rights Division, which has been reshaping itself after an exodus of lawyers during the Bush administration. It filed a similiar lawsuit in April against John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
Arizona authorities already face a Justice Department lawsuit against the state’s SB 1070 immigration law. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial head of law enforcement in Maricopa County, is under investigation by the Justice Department for allegations of discrimination.
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Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 1:26 pm
It is clear that the Obama administration will go ahead with amnesty without putting it before Congress or the people. The illegal aliens and those that support them are the real enemies of this country with Mexico and our elected officials leading the charge. This country is no longer a nation of laws but one where everyone is out for them selves. The breakdown of laws is the first real sign that this country has lost its way. From the Constitution on down these illegal aliens break any law that is inconvenient. Employers are excused from following the rules while our elected officials simply subvert the law that they created.
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Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 3:29 pm
you mean like the churches and others who hold human dignity above other laws?
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Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 4:34 pm
What I mean is that we have laws that have been debated, compromised and passed by our representatives. Churches have their own agenda and they are not necessarily good for our secular government. While I do not agree with Roe vs. Wade I respect the law. Our immigrations laws have been created over our 233 years of our history and they are safe, orderly, equitable and the most generous in the world. If you are for open borders then we must agree to disagree but if you want an orderly society then we need laws to regulate who comes to this country. Furthermore, this population of illegal aliens and those that support them break our laws on all levels. Laws not only to protect us from others but also from our selves. Most illegal aliens have false documentation, drive without licenses, burden our health care system and the list goes on. Dignity comes with playing by the rules not by subverting them. Tell me where our laws are inhumane and I may agree with you.
Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 5:23 pm
@AmericanPieHole
If it is the law you are concerned with, then you should be concerned that the college was NOT following the law. This is not regarding the hiring of illegal aliens, but requiring an applicant to provide additional proof of eligibility to work other than what is stipulated BY THE LAW. Your views on illegal immigration are not really relevant to this particular instance as you are making the point that we are no longer a nation of laws and yet you seem to be ok with the college not following it.
Unfortunately, there may be laws that you don't agree with you and you are entitled to your opinion and are free to try to have the laws changed. But don't stand on a soapbox defending the law of the land and yet be outraged that someone who was NOT following the law of the land was being sued.
Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 5:24 pm
sorry forgot to add this:
http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB…
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Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 7:11 pm
I agree the college should obey the law however if the person in question is illegally in this country shouldn’t they be subject to the law. It goes to what I was trying to say laws that are broken snow ball into the breakdown of many laws.
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Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 9:09 pm
This article left out “The suit calls for the community college district to pay a penalty of $1,100 for each non-U.S. citizen who was authorized to work but was forced to supply additional documentation.”
Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 9:36 pm
If they are “noncitizens” they need to get their illegal behinds back to their own country. The Justice Department needs to be discontinued if it cannot uphold Federal laws. God, what have we run into? There is a new kind of insanity that calls for cutting our liberal wrists open and bleeding out for the world.
Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 9:38 pm
We are sick of the Administration protection a full-force invasion of this country by a welfare class of people that are draining us like a hoard of leeches.
Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 9:40 pm
We cannot get the current Administration out of Washington fast enough.
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Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 11:57 pm
It is a Republican State so the Obama Administration is going to whang them with a huge amount of money and people. BUT.. this thing is going to the ninth circuit and maybe they will put the stoppers on this mess.
Comment posted September 1, 2010 @ 2:10 am
the DOJ need to be suited on the grounds that it has and is failing to do the job it is legally commission to do.
Comment posted September 1, 2010 @ 2:59 am
Can we just give Obama a bunch of awards, a nice mirror and continued wealth and bribe him out of office? Please???? What has this country got itself into? What a mess.
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Comment posted September 1, 2010 @ 5:59 am
What new lows will the Obama administration stoop to next? HOW DARE they protect and coddle illegal aliens at the expense of hard working Arizona citizens who just want their current immigration laws enforced and illegal aliens to go home.
This is anarchy.
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Comment posted September 1, 2010 @ 1:22 pm
I was just researching Obama’s drug use, and prior to his nomination, the press was all over it. Somebody issued a fatwah not to talk about it. They even wanted him questioned about the last time he used drugs.
In his book he said he would have continued to use drugs, but he was broke. Well, he’s not broke now. If he didn’t go to rehab, he’s still an addict. He’s also never outted his pushers.
There might actually be more here than we realize. He sure isn’t stopping a war on drugs.
Would you mind pointing that out. I’m asking the DEA to go over to the White House and have a chat with him. I think the Senate should call for a hearing. What on earth is a drug kingpin with all the knowledge about the drugs in Chicago, doing in the White House.
And where’s his concern that the poor kids will get hooked on drugs? He doesn’t ever talk about kids getting hooked on drugs. Ever. I live on the Arizona border, I have drug cartels in my apartment complex. You can’t get away from it.
Would you mind pushing this story to the front again? Thanks.
Comment posted September 1, 2010 @ 11:22 pm
The Obama administration has done more harm to this country than the 10 administrations combined!
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The Obama administration has done more harm to this country than the 10 administrations combined!
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