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ACLU Engaging in 'Shakedown' Project

By |2023-05-20T09:39:18-04:00May 8th, 2007|

AP: ACLU Engaging in ‘Shakedown’ Project

On 5 May, 2007, the Associated Press ran a story entitled “Local Immigration Laws Bring High Costs.” It described a nationwide shakedown project by the ACLU. Only the AP missed the larger story.

The story as written, said, “Cities across the U.S. are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars defending themselves against lawsuits and other challenges to ordinances enacted to keep out illegal immigrants.” It went on to describe how at least 90 cities had considered ordinances like those of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, but that many were backing away in fear of the costs.

And, those […]

Rallies for Illegal Immigration: The Big Flop on May 1

By |2023-05-20T09:39:20-04:00May 2nd, 2007|

Yesterday, May 1, was supposed to be a banner day for rallying support for “immigration reform.” (“Immigration reform,” incidentally, is one of those phrases that belongs in the Dictionary for the Politically Incorrect, since its actual meaning is concealed behind its lofty appeal for “reform.” Its actual meaning is: changing immigration law so that illegal immigrants reap rewards for their disregard of the rules).

But I digress. The mainstream media has had little to say about the May 1 rallies. Indeed, the only article I have seen about it is one posted on the MSNBC news site, titled, “L.A. to probe police […]

A "Sanctuary City" Has Second Thoughts

By |2023-05-20T09:39:20-04:00May 2nd, 2007|

The Virginian-Pilot reports today that Virginia Beach, which had instructed its police that, except in limited circumstances, they were not to inquire into the immigration status of persons they arrested, has now changed course. The Pilot article begins as follows:

VIRGINIA BEACH – “City police will begin asking all people from another country about their immigration status if they are arrested, even on misdemeanor charges, and taken before a magistrate.

“The change, announced at a news conference Tuesday by Chief of Police Jake Jacocks Jr., represents an about-face for Beach police and comes after public outrage over a car crash March 30 that killed […]

We're Not Asking That Much

By |2023-05-20T09:39:24-04:00May 1st, 2007|

A headline among today’s MSNBC news entries reads, “Immigrant rights groups rally across the U.S.” The story beneath the headline notes that some of the participants in the rallies will decline to wear T-shirts they donned last year, which bore the message, “We’re illegal. So what?” Cooler heads have apparently concluded that this particular slogan was, for a variety of reasons, imprudent.

The MSNBC story also notes that a number of rallies will highlight how “families are being torn apart” by law enforcement raids and the deportation of parents found to have entered the country illegally.

In this story, as in […]

John Armor: One Cheer for the Ninth Circuit On Arizona's Honest-Voter Law

By |2023-05-20T09:37:58-04:00April 24th, 2007|

It is not very often that the American Civil Rights Union has kind words for the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Nor does the US Supreme Court have many kind words for them, either. That Court reverses decisions of that Circuit more than all other Circuits combined.

But every rule has its exceptions. And a unanimous decision of a panel of the Ninth Circuit upholding an Arizona law on voter IDs causes us to say, “One cheer for the Ninth Circuit.”

A widely reported AP story entitled, “Ruling lets Arizona require proof of citizenship of voters,” tells part […]

Vote Fraud Takes a Hit in the Ninth Circuit

By |2023-05-20T09:37:59-04:00April 23rd, 2007|

Congratulations to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for its decision on Friday refusing to enjoin Arizona from enforcing Proposition 200, which Arizona voters adopted in 2004 to stem vote fraud.

Proposition 200 amended Arizona law to require persons wishing to register to vote for the first time in that state to present proof of citizenship, and to require all Arizona voters to present identification when they vote in person at the polls.

The law was challenged as improperly burdening the right to vote, and the plaintiffs went to federal court seeking a preliminary injunction against its enforcement even before a trial […]

The Top Five Reasons to Oppose "Sanctuary Cities"

By |2023-05-20T09:38:07-04:00April 13th, 2007|

Reason No. 5: Because sanctuary cities facilitate and encourage illegal immigration, they are unfair to legal immigrants, who waited in line, followed the rules and showed respect for the law.

Reason No. 4: Sanctuary cities impose costs on their residents — citizens and legal immigrants — that they shouldn’t have to bear. Tax dollars that ought properly to benefit the people who paid them go instead to underwrite hospital, police, prison and education services for those who are not entitled to be here in the first place.

Reason No. 3: Sanctuary cities […]

ACLU Displays its Paranoia

By |2023-05-20T09:38:11-04:00April 11th, 2007|

ACLU Displays its Paranoia

The facts, but not the legal conclusions, for this article come from an article in the Boston Globe on 26 March. The title of the article is, “Inhumane raid was just one of many (Endgame).” It begins with a reference to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on illegal alien employees in New Bedford, Mass.

What makes the article interesting, however, is its display of paranoia on the part of the Massachusetts ACLU, plus its direct quoting of factually false charges made by the ACLU about this and other efforts to find and deport illegal aliens. The […]

ACLU Sues Police to Protect Illegal Aliens

By |2023-05-20T09:38:18-04:00December 12th, 2006|

The background for this comment came from an article published by Channel 7 News in Boston on its website. It credited the Associated Press with the story.

The ACLU sued the State Police in Rhode Island, seeking the release of a videotape showing the “first five minutes of a 70-minute stop on Interstate 95 in July.” In that stop, Trooper Thomas Chabot pulled over a van that failed to use its turn signal. In the van he found “14 Guatemalan immigrants.” Note that neither the AP nor Channel 7 include the fact that these were “illegal” immigrants, though that can be inferred […]

The ACLU Defends Illegals in Los Angeles

By |2023-05-20T09:38:21-04:00September 29th, 2006|

An article in World Net Daily on 16 September, 2006, described an ACLU-sponsored effort to support Special Order 40 of the Los Angeles Police Department. This Order requires the police in that City to refuse to ask for and act on the illegal status of any alien whom they question or arrest. This is part of the effort of the City Council there to make L.A. a “sanctuary city.”

The national organization, Judicial Watch, has brought the federal case to strike Special Order 40 because it conflicts with a ten- year-old federal law which prohibits “any government entity or official” from communicating to or from the […]

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