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August 31, 2010 DOJ Sues Arizona Community Colleges for Trying to Not Hire Illegal Aliens The Obama Justice Department is going after public employers in Arizona for requesting green cards from applicants who are not citizens according to the Washington Independent. [FAIR Comment: The 1986 IRCA legislation set up the original guidelines for employers to use when verifying legal status, but the Civil Rights Division has consistently used the law only to go after employers for being zealous, but not to benefit Americans victimized by national-origin discrimination. In theory, Americans discriminated against by employers who only hire illegal aliens should be protected by the Civil Rights law as well, but some are more equal than others, as the Maricopa Community College system is finding out.]
State Dept. Defends SB 1070 Mention in Human Rights Report "[State Dept.] Spokesman P.J. Crowley said the Arizona immigration law included in an Aug. 20 report to the U.N. high commissioner on rights came up during the preparation period, when teams went around the country gathering ideas for the report. Crowley said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton included the dispute in the report because she thought the U.S. could serve as "a model" to other nations," Fox News reports.
Center for American Progress Keeps Beating A Straw-man Marshall Fitz with the Center for American Progress can't resist beating on a strawman when discussing birthright citizenship. In a US News opinion piece, Fitz refers to efforts to end birthright citizenship as "repealing the 14th Amendment" - a statement Fitz clearly knows is wrong since the legislative action favored by FAIR and other immigration reformers would only clarify the citizenship clause of the 14th amendment. But, eager to demagogue, Fitz says, "Repeal of the citizenship clause would return us to the dark days of Dred Scott by denying citizenship to a new class of children and stigmatizing them at birth." Perhaps the most interesting position Fitz takes is the condescension he has for the very rational belief of illegal aliens that if they have a citizen child they will hit the lottery, and be entitled to social programs and welfare. Just as in the debate over welfare reform, opponents of changing the status quo refuse to examine the incentives driving people's behavior because it is more important to score ideological points than to be right.
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