FAIR Criticizes AZ Ruling

[proud2BlibKansan]

The full release from FAIR:

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) sharply criticized the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal’s highly politicized ruling which blocks key provisions of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, SB 1070. The decision essentially strips local law enforcement of any authority to enforce immigration laws except within strict parameters set by Homeland Security.

“Monday’s ruling turns the Constitution on its head, empowering the president to make immigration policy by executive fiat,” stated Dan Stein, president of FAIR. “The decision also leaves state and local governments at the mercy of an administration that, for political reasons, refuses to enforce the nation’s immigration laws.”

FAIR is urging Congress to reassert authority over immigration policy in order to limit the executive branch’s discretionary policy of widespread non-enforcement. Congress must clarify its intent that state and local governments be full partners in the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.

“The ruling poses a threat to national self-determination and the ability of states to ensure a decent quality of life of their citizens,” charged Stein. “The inability of state and local governments to enforce the laws the executive branch won’t turns the political whims of the president into the de facto law of the land.”



Read more: http://midwestdemocracyproject.org/blogs/entries/fair-criticizes-az-ruling/#ixzz1JMp5F0F7

[JonLP24]

1. Of course they would

Much of the bill was written by a FAIR lawyer.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. That lawyer is now SOS of Kansas

Yuck.

[JonLP24]

5. Ouch.

Same guy, I looked it up to see who is the SOS of Kansas.

We have Russell Pearce in my district so I feel your pain.

[CreekDog]

3. Why are you posting the rantings of a hate group that wants to end birthright citizenship?

Posting it without qualification.

On DU?

(We could have used a warning before reading that tripe) :hi:

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/01/04/legislators-work-with-anti-immigrant-hate-group-to-gut-14th-amendment/

FAIR's President (below)


AIR President Dan Stein (second from left) poses with State Legislators for Legal Immigration members.

On Wednesday, legislators from the anti-immigrant organization State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) will announce at the National Press Club their plan to halt what they call “the misapplication of the 14th Amendment.” The group seeks to end the amendment’s provision of birthright citizenship, which assured that the children of slaves could not be denied citizenship, and ensures that almost all children born on U.S. soil are automatically granted American citizenship.

Children born to the undocumented have long been a bugaboo for the anti-immigrant movement, which derisively refers to these new American citizens as “anchor babies” – purportedly used by their parents to gain U.S. citizenship for themselves.

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[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Um. To inform people?

Hide thread if you don't like it.

[CreekDog]

8. inform people of what? do you support Arizona 1070 and the end of birthright citizenship?

i had no idea.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Why does that matter?

I posted an article for information. I've also been here long enough that my stance as a progressive who values social justice should be well known. There are also responses I posted in this thread that make my own opinion on this issue obvious.

[CreekDog]

14. because most people don't know who FAIR is

and knowing who they are is pretty critical to understanding the validity and motivation of their statements.

the average reader here might get the impression that a non-biased legal watchdog has criticized the judicial decisions to strike down parts of SB1070.

so if your hope is to inform, but you leave that key info out, you are giving readers the statements of FAIR without context. and that works against your stated positions here.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. There has been lots of information about FAIR posted here

I disagree.

[CreekDog]

10. .

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[jillan]

4. This is such bullshit because illegal immigration numbers are down. You'd never know that of course.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. And deportations are up.

[CreekDog]

9. FAIR is a hate group according to the SPLC --what they say should be treated as such

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/winter/the-teflon-nativists

Intelligence Report, Winter 2007, Issue Number: 128
The Teflon Nativists
Principals of the Federation for American Immigration Reform have been criticizing immigrants for 20 years

By Heidi Beirich, Director of Research

Editor’s Note: After issuing this report in December 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center added the Federation for American Immigration Reform to its list of hate groups.

...Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the most important organization fueling the backlash against immigration. Founded by Tanton in 1979, FAIR has long been marked by anti-Latino and anti-Catholic attitudes. It has mixed this bigotry with a fondness for eugenics, the idea of breeding better humans discredited by its Nazi associations. It has accepted $1.2 million from an infamous, racist eugenics foundation. It has employed officials in key positions who are also members of white supremacist groups. Recently, it has promoted racist conspiracy theories about Mexico's secret designs on the American Southwest and an alternative theory alleging secret plans to merge the United States, Mexico and Canada. Just last February, a senior FAIR official sought "advice" from the leaders of a racist Belgian political party.

FAIR officials declined repeated requests for comment.

None of this — or any other material evidencing the bigotry and racism that courses through the group — seems to have affected FAIR's media standing. In just the first 10 months of 2007, the group was quoted in mainstream media outlets nearly 500 times with virtually no mention of its more unsavory aspects. FAIR President Dan Stein was featured on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" at least 12 times in the same period, along with countless appearances on other television news shows. And, perhaps most remarkably of all, FAIR has been taken seriously by Congress, which has called upon its officials to testify on immigration more than 30 times since 2000.

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[pampango]

11. "A Major Blow To Jan Brewer’s Anti-Immigrant SB 1070"

Immigration advocates scored a major victory in Arizona’s battle against SB 1070 today when a federal appeals court refused to lift a ban blocking the most extreme elements of the legislation. This decision involves the lawsuit filed against the Arizona law by the Obama administration's Department of Justice.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Gov. Jan Brewer’s request to lift an injunction imposed by a federal judge in Phoenix just hours before SB 1070 went into effect last summer.

Eliseo Medina, of the Service Employees International Union said: “Arizona got it wrong when it passed SB 1070. This second federal court ruling reaffirms what we have said all along: immigration is a federal issue and states cannot preempt the federal government's jurisdiction over immigration matters.

Today's ruling prevents enforcement of four key provisions in the bill:

Section 2(B) requiring police to verify the immigration status of any suspect prior to their release
Section 3 making it a violation of state law for foreign nationals to fail to carry alien registration documents with them
Section 5(C) barring illegal immigrants from seeking work
Section 6 allowing officers to arrest without a warrant anyone suspected of being in the country illegally.

http://americasvoiceonline.org/blog/entry/a_major_blow_for_jan_brewers_anti_immigrant_sb_1070/

[mmonk]

12. I certainly would expect a blatantly racist organization like FAIR

to oppose the ruling. Afterall, they wrote it and racist Russell Pearce intoduced it.