The odd issue with this case rests with the fact that the “big business advocate”, The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce”, doesn’t want business held accountable for hiring illegal aliens. It makes you question the Chamber’s allegiance to America’s sovereignty. I’m afraid it’s all about the money and illegal immigration is a boon for big business as more legal Americans become unemployed and are unable to find gainful employment.
The system is being gamed by big business - through deception, they financially support politicians who promote anti-illegal immigration legislation, while themselves hiring the same illegal aliens these politicians are targeting.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ET AL. v. WHITING ET AL. (find the entire case at supremecourt.gov)
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States and various business and civil rights organizations (collectively Chamber) filed this federal preenforcement suit against those charged with administer-ing the Arizona law, arguing that the state law’s license suspensionand revocation provisions were both expressly and impliedly pre-empted by federal immigration law, and that the mandatory use of E-Verify was impliedly preempted.
Arizona’s requirement that employers use E-Verify is not impliedlypreempted. The IIRIRA provision setting up E-Verify contains no language circumscribing state action. It does, however, constrain federal action: absent a prior violation of federal law, “the Secretaryof Homeland Security may not require any person or . . . entity” out-side the Federal Government “to participate in” E-Verify. IIRIRA, §402(a), (e). The fact that the Federal Government may require the use of E-Verify in only limited circumstances says nothing aboutwhat the States may do. The Government recently argued just thatin another case and approvingly referenced Arizona’s law as an ex-ample of a permissible use of E-Verify when doing so.
Moreover, Arizona’s use of E-Verify does not conflict with the fed-eral scheme. The state law requires no more than that an employer, after hiring an employee, “verify the employment eligibility of theemployee” through E-Verify. Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. §23–214(A). And the consequences of not using E-Verify are the same under the state and federal law—an employer forfeits an otherwise available rebut-table presumption of compliance with the law.
If you were looking for any sign of Tea Party protests in the Lamestream Media, forget about it. Unfortunately for Progressives, Socialists, and Marxists, wishing something doesn’t make it necessarily so. To the chagrin of these haters of Americanism, there were too many Tea Party Rallies to list. Here is a reminder to the left – the harder you try to destroy the Tea Party movement, the more steadfast our resolve to cure the American government’s fiscal insanity and snub out rabid Progressivism.
WI - Tea Party Rally – Progressives Counter Rally Peters Out
CA – Tax Day Rally Welcomes Long Beach Tea Party
Tea Party supporters flock to Palm Desert rally
Tea Party rally held on busy day in Laguna Beach
MA – Boston Police Help Disrupt Tea Party Rally
AL – Tea party event held at Homewood radio station
Tea party rally draws concerned residents to courthouse
FL – Rep. Allen West At Florida Tea Party rally
At Tea Party Rally, Rubio Blasts Obama: He’d rather get Re-Elected than Lead
Scott preaches lower taxes at St. Johns tea party rally
Union Fireman Suspected Of Sabotage At Tea Party Rally
IA – Pawlenty, Cain try to win Iowa Tea Party support
Iowa tea party supporters brave chilling wind for rally
AZ - Tax Day Rally in the Desert Southwest
Tea Party Counter Protesters Arrested
IN – Socialist group protests Tea Party
Tea Party rally takes aim at GOP and Dems
SC – TEA Party rally message: get involved
Tax day tea party protest brings SC Gov Haley, Bachmann to Statehouse steps
Bachmann Visits TEA Party Rally in Bluffton
PA – Tea party, York County NAACP to rally together
NH – Tea Party Rally Calls for Budget Cuts
NC – Tea Party rallies
WA – Tea party rallies for less government, more grass-roots
Tea party activists rally in Everett
CO – Tea party rally attracts 200 to Loveland
Third tax day tea party rally fires ‘em up
RI - tea party rallies at Statehouse
Marxist Group Protests Tea Party Protest
NV – Groups rally in Carson City to support Gov. Brian Sandoval’s pledge to not raise taxes
Tea party supporters want big government out of their lives
TX – Longview hosts Tea Party rally
Tea Party rally in downtown Tyler
NJ – Morristown Tea Party rally
AR – Crowd braves chilly temps for Tax Day Rally
MT – TEA Party rallies in Billings
Racists Fliers By Marxists enrage local Tea Party Patriots
IL – The tea party rant heard ’round the nation
SD – Tea party activists rally, intend to keep heat on legislators
MI – Tea party members attack plans for new Detroit bridge, taxes during Lansing rally
Tea Party holds tax day rally in Grand Rapids
Tea party rally at Capitol draws 400
NY – Tea Partiers rev up at Hornell rally
GA – Tea party rally touts fair tax
Savannah Tea Party: Stop spending, start saving
CT – Hundreds turn out for anti-tax rally at Conn. Capitol
OH – Tri-Party TEA Party encourages show of support for Kasich
MO – Mo. tea party groups rally on taxes, spending
Rand Paul wrote a letter to his Congressional colleagues urging them to not extend the provisions of the unconstitutional, 4th amendment abolishing, and improperly worded Patriot Act. As it stands he held off a push to have it extended for three years or become permanent. His letter spelled out the acts Constitutional violations and asked his colleagues to act within the confines of the American Constitution they swore to uphold. Of course, one of Rand’s colleagues proved why he is no friend of American Freedom. Here is the quote from the Constitution-trampling, Joe Lieberman. Take it away Joe!
…there will be a full-fledged debate on it. That was what is discussed and that is okay with me. I support the Patriot Act as is. I think these three provisions are very sensible. There is no record that they have compromised everybody’s rights but there is a record that they have helped protect our homeland security.
Back to the real world. Here is the video and letter from Rand Paul.
Dear Colleague:
James Otis argued against general warrants and writs of assistance that were issued by British soldiers without judicial review and that did not name the subject or items to be searched.
He condemned these general warrants as “the worst instrument[s] of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever w[ere] found in an English law book.” Otis objected to these writs of assistance because they “placed the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer.” The Fourth Amendment was intended to guarantee that only judges—not soldiers or policemen—would issue warrants. Otis’ battle against warrantless searches led to our Fourth Amendment guarantee against unreasonable government intrusion. Read the rest of this entry
