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July 28, 2010 Federal Judge Stops SB 1070 Implementation "A federal judge on Wednesday blocked some of the toughest provisions in the Arizona illegal immigration law, putting on hold the state's attempt to have local police enforce federal immigration policy," says Fox News. FAIR will have more updates later about the impact of the ruling on SB 1070.
Legal Immigrants Complain About Wage and Other Problems Caused by Illegal Immigration "Armando De Alba is proud of his Mexican ancestry. But he's tired of what he views as government toleration of illegal immigrants. 'I'm for deporting everyone back,' De Alba said. 'They need to enforce the law and do it hardcore. You have got to make them understand we're not here to mess around,'" the Press Enterprise reports. "De Alba said he periodically visited worksites he had unsuccessfully bid to work on. He didn't ask the plastering workers about their immigration status but he said there were signs they were illegal workers: Trucks didn't have mandatory state-license stickers or company emblems, and workers were sometimes paid in cash and rarely spoke English."
Lawsuit Against SB 1070 Lays Bare Federal Inaction "The citizens of the state have been living under the siege of illegal immigration for years. What for most of us is an abstract political or humanitarian issue is for Arizonans a daily battle to protect life, property, and vital resources. The recent passage of bold new immigration legislation was the people's way of saying they'd had enough," says Ken Connor in a Crosswalk.com commentary. "By suing the state of Arizona for "unconstitutionally" passing immigration legislation, the federal government is tacitly acknowledging its dereliction of duty - they have admitted that there is a dangerous and dire problem along America's southern border that they aren't addressing."
Tamar Jacoby: Obama Must Accommodate Public Opinion "After three months of bitter, unrelenting debate, 60 percent of voters are still strongly in favor of the law. Proponents of immigration reform, including the president, have largely ignored this support for the law, writing it off as anti-immigrant, if not downright bigoted. But the truth is there can be no hope of passing an immigration overhaul opposed by 60 percent of the public," says Tamar Jacoby. Jacoby says that Obama should embrace enforcement as part of a "compromise" that would include amnesty. Meanwhile, John Feffer at the Huffington Post says that President Obama should not "head fake" toward the right. Taking the DHS deportation claims at face value, Feffer says "I'm not happy with the president's feints to the right in an attempt to please the anti-immigrant lobby: the law-and-order rhetoric, the support of free-trade agreements that ultimately push people into leaving their countries. But if Obama manages to drive to the basket -- and win amnesty for millions of hard-working de facto Americans -- I'll cheer the victory."
Fremont Suspends Ordinance To Respond to Lawsuits "A Nebraska city suspended its voter-approved ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants, but opponents still want a federal judge to block the ordinance until all legal fights are resolved," ABC News says. "Groups challenging the ordinance are expected in court Wednesday, a day after the Fremont City Council voted to suspended the ban. City officials said delaying the ordinance would save the city money as it fights lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska and the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund."
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