Courts Undermine Local Laws Again: Immigration
by Jeff Davis
What do liberals, leftists and Jews do when they lose on an issue? They go running to the courts as fast as their bandy little legs can carry them, to get a liberal judge to overturn whatever popular law, they don’t like. Now they’re using the courts to strike down attempts to enforce immigration law.
The Associated Press reports that: “A Dallas suburb’s ban on apartment rentals to illegal immigrants, an ordinance passed by city leaders and later endorsed in a vote by its residents, is unconstitutional, a federal judge found Wednesday. Only the federal government can regulate immigration, U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay concluded in his decision.”
This undermining of the law by the courts is un-Constitutional since the Tenth Amendment clearly states that all powers not specifically allocated to the Federal government are reserved to the states. And why have some states resorted to making local laws to prevent the hiring of illegal aliens or laws to prevent local landlords from renting apartments to illegals? Because the federal government and the President of the United States have refused to enforce immigration law. Our politicians simply leave the back door open for illegal aliens and drug smugglers, and they get paid off by the big businesses, who hire the illegals (and probably by the drug smugglers too). (more…)