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U.S. Challenges South Carolina Immigration Law

Christine Detz |
October 31, 2011 | 7:59 p.m. PDT

Executive Producer

South Carolina state capitol (photo courtesy Creative Commons)
South Carolina state capitol (photo courtesy Creative Commons)
The Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit Monday that sought to block enactment of a new immigration in South Carolina.

The lawsuit argues the provision requiring law enforcement officers to call federal immigration authorities if there is a question about a person’s immigration status unconstitutional.  The law specifically states that a person cannot be held by authorities solely based on suspicion of his or her immigration status.

Another provision of the law requires businesses to check the legal status of new employees through an online federal system.  Any business that hires undocumented workers will be subject to revocation of its business license under the new law.

In the filing, the Justice Department also argued that immigration legislation should fall to Congress alleging the South Carolina law “conflicts with and otherwise stands as an obstacle to Congress's demand for sufficient flexibility in the enforcement of federal immigration law to accommodate the competing interests of immigration control, national security and public safety, humanitarian concerns, and foreign relations."

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder issued a statement Monday about the filing. “It is understandable that communities remain frustrated with the broken immigration system, but a patchwork of state laws is not the solution and will only create problems.”

The lawsuit marked the third time the Obama administration sued a state over an immigration-related law in federal court.  The Justice Department previously filed suit to block enactment of similar laws in Arizona and Alabama.  Officials say the administration remains in discussion with state officials in Utah, Indiana and Georgia – states that have also passed immigration legislation in the past year.

The South Carolina law is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1.

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Dave Francis (not verified) on November 1, 2011 11:41 AM

Firstly American workers are suffering because of the unending flood of illegal aliens stealing jobs for decades. Now its cut-backs on health care for our most vulnerable--our Senior citizens. Our elderly population is under attack by the Joint Select committee of 12 prominent politicians from both sides of the chamber, which has the responsibility of reducing federal deficit by the November 23. Not getting into this insidious plan of why our politicians are so disposed to take away Health care to the American public, that’s even though they have paid into Social Security, since they began to work. Yet nonetheless the Congress is subsidizing the 20 million illegal alien’s access to Medicaid and in some cases Medicare? The Obama health law, enacted a new policy 18 months ago, to raid Medicare, towards funding new entitlements for low-income people, thus robbing our old inhabitants to spread the benefits, which includes the extreme poverty allowed into this sovereign country.

This contentious law reduces Medicare future funding by $575 billion over 10 years, and applying the majority of it of $10 Billion dollars to augment Medicaid enrollment and its entitlements. The Obamacare law transforms Medicaid from a provisional safety net to a permanent substitute. This absorbs private medical insurance to a mandatory equivalent. Therefore, Medicaid expenses will top $900 billion by 2020 of both federal and state subsidies, estimated to be the equivalent of Medicare. Less known is that in addition to expanding Medicaid, and opposite to the Obama administration guarantee, the new law allots billions of dollars to expand services chiefly for illegal aliens. This includes $11 billion for community health Clinics serving those not qualified for Medicaid. We have a growing, paramount occupation of the illegal invaders, who have been hired by criminal businesses countrywide. My question, without fear of contradiction why should senior’s health care be slashed to free up resources for persons, who have never paid anything into the fund?

This includes females who deliberately slip across our borders, or concealing that they are pregnant when arriving by international flights. That in itself covers around 300.000 annually, according to the Federation of American immigration Reform. Thay can immediately get free health care under false pretenses of an amendment that has been manipulated by Leftist judges. THESE INDIVIDUAL ILLEGAL FAMILIES ARE ALREADY CAUSING FINANCIAL ISSUES FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES IN REDUCING HEALTH CARE AND LOWERING OUR ONCE HIGH EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS, BY COURTS THAT ARE NOT FOLLOWING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. THE LIBERAL PROGRESSIVES THINKS WE OWE THE WORLD A LIVING. THESE ECONOMIC MIGRANTS AND ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO STEAL FROM US BY SEROIUSLY FAULTED POLICIES.

Exhibiting their incompetence the Department of IN-Justice strong-armed different states, using the court system to force their own policies of what they claim is unconstitutional police laws. Arizona was essentially the first state to feel the wrath of judicial branch, followed by Alabama and Georgia. Each sovereign state’s main objective is to stop the occupation of ECONOMIC illegal aliens causing a major disruption in its public entitlement to its citizens and lawful residents. In connivance with the Communist founded ACLU, business concerns and the usual open border organizations, plus church and unions was to prosecute these ailing states. Without any relevant interest in the taxpayers tax extortion of every states, the DOJ is determined it is now time to buckle on the sword of menace and turning their radical attention on South Carolina. All these threatening postures will be remembered next November, when the TEA PARTY votes in force. The Obama administration keeps quiet that fiscal costs of education for the children and free health care for illegal families, is a—UNFUNDED MANDATE ON THE 50 STATES.

Cuts to Medicare are not about reducing federal spending, but about redistributing healthcare. This is because we are importing more and more poverty, when we cannot support our own poor.

If we are to prevent this unfettered flow of desperate illegal nationals from other countries, we must bring to the floor of the house ‘The Legal Workforce Act’. Rep. Smiths MANDATORY E-Verify can and will finally turn the stream of illegal alien labor into trickle, turning of the faucet off for jobs eventually. Without the foundation of work, families will no longer be able to settle, unless they live completely on handouts from crippled welfare sources churches or charity. Removing the 8.5 million jobs from people who have no right to be here, will release those jobs, so American workers can pay their bills. Complicity between politicians and the business lobbyists, open border entities, have brought the United States to this dismal, hapless chaos we are surrounded by. E-Verify in its own way can regenerate jobs for lawful hires, and accomplishes uncountable self-deportations. The failure of Reagan’s 1986 Amnesty plan has brought tremendous bloodshed from illegal drunken drivers, hard core criminals brought here through unresponsiveness and corrupt lawmakers; many still sit in Washington.

Each far-sighted American can alter the financial direction we are heading, in the midst of Obama’s redistribution of what legal residents have worked for all their lives. Undertake to call legislators relating to ‘THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT’ (Bill H.R. 2885.) Contact the WAYS & MEANS JUDICIAL COMMITTEE that can sponsor and expeditiously vote the law into reality. Don’t let this permanent law slip out of all Americans reach. Start a incessant bombardment of the House of Representative, beginning with majority Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-OH) to get his fellow House Representatives of their unenthusiastic posteriors and sponsor Bill H.R. 2885. You can study more about the ‘Legal Workforce Act’ at the NumbersUSA website, which additionally gives you the current immigration records a grade for all the candidates in the GOP race for president. You can also send a free-fax through NumbersUSA or just please call your House Representative at the Congressional Switchboard phone number, who will switch you to the appropriate office at 202-224-3121.

Obama’s clan will do anything to win in 2012, including ignoring illegal aliens voting in the election. This has happened multiple times before, with the ACORN organization using inappropriate registrations and forged absentee ballots. The Tea Party will be involved in watching for irregularities in the general election

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