Judge: If Feds Won't Enforce Immigration Laws, Locals Must Not

[DesertFox]

Mac Johnson
Human Events Online
15 Aug 05

The Open Borders Bloc successfully mobilized this summer to put down an unexpected outbreak of the rule of law. The rebellion was brief but threatening, as local law enforcement clearly overstepped their bounds and began enforcing laws willy-nilly--leading many in the ruling elite to wonder where it all might end. Luckily, a judge was able to step in and stop the law before it could be enforced again.

In a case well publicized by the national media, Chief Garret Chamberlain, a police officer in the town of New Ipswich, N.H., encountered Mexican citizen Jorge Mora Ramirez broken down on the side of the road. Ramirez, though unable to speak much English, admitted that he was in the country illegally, was in possession of forged Massachusetts identification bearing a fictitious Social Security number, and was illegally employed in a construction project in a nearby town.

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[tacitus]

Local governments can require contractors and laborers to register and show real identification (which coincidentally now requires proof of legal residency). Violation of such a law would be a wholly local matter. Local governments regulate restaurant zoning, and issue building permits. They can disperse loiterers and deny builders their inspection approvals. Local governments have a lot of power to regulate local activity.

Whatever local governments do, they must not surrender. Because when you fight back, sometimes you win even when you lose. Consider the parting words of Ramirez’s attorney regarding the future plans of his illegal alien clients: "I think they plan on staying out of Hudson and New Ipswich, N.H."



The hell with the federal fools that pander to these people. Make it hard on the employers, they'll get the message fast.

[Lazarus]

This issue is publicly showing our government to be the circus that it has grown to be over the last 100 years... The Constitution handed us by our founding fathers has long been suspended and put on a shelf in the National Archives while power elites pursue their own private little agendas...

We, the people, MUST take our government back or watch our nation slide into a system of feudalism where the powerful few rule over the commoners...

[Beowulf]

Make the government afraid of the people, NOT the people afraid of the government.

[The_RANDy_Corporation]

This is shaping up into a fine constitutional crisis!

[Aric2000]

This is shaping up into a fine constitutional crisis!

I know, ain't it GREAT!!!

It will bring the constitution to the forefront, and maybe, JUST maybe the sheeple will wake up and realize WTF has been going on while they have been asleep.

[Beowulf]

Oh, the PEOPLE are wide awake to the matter, it's the politicians led by W that aren't. When 70% of the people want the border closed, that's a loud roar that is being ignored.