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June 25, 2012 Supreme Court Upholds Law Enforcement Provision of SB 1070 "Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), called today's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding key provision of Arizona's immigration enforcement law, SB 1070, 'an important victory for the people of Arizona and citizens everywhere who want their jobs, tax dollars and security protected from mass illegal immigration,'" notes a news release from FAIR. FAIR will be posting more detailed commentary on the 5-3 ruling by the Supreme Court, which struck down some provisions of SB 1070 but upheld the ability of state police to check legal status. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer released a statement saying the decision was a victory for the rule of law. In the wake of today's ruling, the Obama administration has ended the 287(g) program. "Officials also said Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be selective in responding to the expected increase in calls from Arizona and other police agencies about immigration status of people they pull over. Officials said ICE will not respond to the scene unless the person in question meets certain criteria -- such as being wanted for a felony," Fox News reported.
Poll Shows Immigration Isn't Top Issue for Hispanics "American Hispanic voters are more concerned about health care and unemployment than they are about immigration, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll. In fact, only 12 percent of Hispanic registered voters said that immigration policy is the most important issue to them. Health care was cited by 21 percent of registered Hispanic voters as the most important issue; 19 percent said unemployment; 17 percent said economic growth; and 16 percent said the gap between rich and poor," Politico reports.
California Bill Would Halt Co-Operation in Enforcement "A bill that would pull back California's participation in President Barack Obama's flagship immigration enforcement program is gaining momentum a week after Obama halted the deportation of young illegal immigrants. A key policy committee recently approved legislation that would limit the state's participation in Secure Communities, a federal fingerprinting program that calls for local jails to give immigration officials arrestees' fingerprints and to hold those who are deemed to be in the United States illegally," The Californian reports.
The Moral Inversion of Obama's DREAM Act "A major tenet of our justice system is that wrongdoers, and even those who may innocently benefit from their wrongdoing, should not be allowed to profit from that wrongdoing . . . Our prisons are full of people whose children are suffering because of their parent's actions. But it is because of their parent's actions that they are suffering and not the actions of a society whose very foundation is based on the rule of law," says Jose Aliseda in the Texas Tribune. "So I find it hard to swallow the rational of President Obama, or for that matter, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, who say that the children of illegal aliens are the victims of some kind of wrong perpetrated on them by American society and that we must rectify it by allowing them to live their dreams and, in effect, grant them amnesty from their parent's wrongdoing."
Labour Party Leader Miliband: Mass Immigration Was a Mistake "For too long we assumed those who worried about immigration were stuck in the past -- unrealistic about how things could be different, even prejudiced . . . We were too dazzled by globalisation's impact on growth and too sanguine about its price. We lost sight of who was benefiting and the people being squeezed in the middle who were losing out. And, to them, Labour was too quick to say: 'Like it or lump it,'" says Ed Miliband, leader of the UK Labour Party. "We need a new approach that acknowledges that immigration always has costs, as well as benefits, and understands that we cannot solve concerns about it unless we change our economy."
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