California Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Arizona’s SB 1070 BECAUSE IT WORKS!

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California Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Arizona’s SB 1070 BECAUSE IT WORKS!
March 29, 2012 By Ira Mehlman
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments next month in the case of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, SB 1070. Just about everyone with an interest in immigration policy, including FAIR and the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI,) is submitting amicus briefs in support or opposition to SB 1070.
But leave it to California to come up with the most novel argument as it tries to convince the Court to overturn the Arizona law. A document submitted by California Attorney General Kamala Harris asks the Court to overturn SB 1070 because it is likely to result in illegal aliens in Arizona moving to other states – like California. In other words, as a far as California is concerned, the problem with SB 1070 is that it works.
But wait a minute! I thought California wants illegal aliens. California needs illegal aliens. The California economy would collapse without illegal aliens. California offers every benefit imaginable to attract illegal aliens. You would think California would want the Supreme Court to uphold SB 1070 just so California could attract more illegal aliens to come and live there.
If California doesn’t want all the illegal aliens in Arizona to relocate to California, that’s another reason to ask the Court to uphold SB 1070. As soon as the Supreme Court declares SB 1070 to be constitutional, California could pass its own version of SB 1070 because, by the state’s own admission, it works.
http://immigrationreform.com/2012/03...ause-it-works/

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A disingenuous attempt to play both ends against the middle.

The OC register article:

March 28, 2012

SACRAMENTO – California has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Arizona's tough immigration law, saying it would drive illegal immigrants into other states.

The Arizona law, passed two years ago, has been largely blocked by court order because of legal challenges. Among other things, it makes in a crime to be in the country illegally and to seek work.

The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled an April 25 hearing, and a ruling is expected in June.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris has joined 10 other states in asking that the Arizona law be overturned. The other states are New York, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont.

In documents filed Tuesday, Harris said the law exceeds state authority, conflicts with national policy and would drive illegal immigrants into other states.

"There are currently millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States," the brief states. "The apprehension, detention, and removal of these immigrants necessarily implicates the rights, liberties, and personal freedoms of human beings. Most of these undocumented immigrants are otherwise law-abiding, fully contributing members of society.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/law-3...mmigrants.html

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Arizona governor Jan Brewer responds:

[QUOTE]“This legal filing is pure politics and takes tortured logic and rank hypocrisy to new levels. The brief filed by California and 10 other states opposing SB 1070 begins by noting that they each ‘have a wide variety of laws affecting all persons within their borders’ and ‘seek to preserve their authority to enact and enforce such laws, even as applied to immigrants.

In other words, California and its fellow petitioners would like to maintain the ability to establish laws for the betterment and protection of their citizens. They’d just like to deny Arizona the right to do the same.

A major objection raised by California and its cohorts is that ‘SB 1070’s effect is to deter immigrants’ – illegal immigrants, to be clear – ‘from living in Arizona.’ Their apparent concern is that SB 1070 would result in illegal aliens seeking safe haven in more accommodating locales elsewhere. Why the objection? Given their complaints about SB 1070, I would think these states would welcome those present illegally with open arms.”[/QUOTE]

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