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Feds Sue South Carolina Over New Immigration Law

State's proposed law is one of the nation's toughest

By the Associated Press

Posted Oct 31, 2011 4:39 PM CDT

(AP) – The federal government is suing South Carolina to put a stop to the state's tough new immigration law. US Attorney Bill Nettles said today the government wants a judge to stop enforcement of the legislation. The law requires that officers call federal immigration officials if they suspect someone is in the country illegally following a traffic stop for something else.

Nettles said the law is unconstitutional and violates people's right to due process. South Carolina's law takes effect Jan. 1 and is among the toughest in the nation, requiring police to determine immigration status during any unlawful stop where officers have "reasonable suspicion" of a suspect's immigration status. The US Justice Department is challenging similar laws in Arizona and Alabama. A spokesman for South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said the state had not received a copy of the lawsuit.

US Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during the 66th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011.
US Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during the 66th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011.   (AP Photo/Andrew Burton)
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DaveFrancis
Nov 1, 2011 2:20 PM CDT
ACT NOW—TODAY! Firstly American workers are suffering because of the unending flood of illegal aliens stealing jobs for decades. Now its cut-backs on health care for our most vulnerable--our Senior citizens. Our elderly population is under attack by the Joint Select committee of 12 prominent politicians from both sides of the chamber, which has the responsibility of reducing federal deficit by the November 23.  Not getting into this insidious plan of why our politicians are so disposed to take away Health care to the American public, that’s even though they have paid into Social Security, since they began to work. Yet nonetheless the Congress is subsidizing the 20 million illegal alien’s access to Medicaid and in some cases Medicare? The Obama health law, enacted a new policy 18 months ago,  to raid Medicare, towards funding new entitlements for low-income people, thus robbing our old inhabitants to spread the benefits, which includes the extreme poverty allowed into this sovereign country.     This contentious law reduces Medicare future funding by $575 billion over 10 years, and applying the majority of it of $10 Billion dollars to augment Medicaid enrollment and its entitlements. The Obamacare law transforms Medicaid from a provisional safety net to a permanent substitute. This absorbs private medical insurance to a mandatory equivalent. Therefore, Medicaid expenses will top $900 billion by 2020 of both federal and state subsidies, estimated to be the equivalent of Medicare. Less known is that in addition to expanding Medicaid, and opposite to the Obama administration guarantee, the new law allots billions of dollars to expand services chiefly for illegal aliens. This includes $11 billion for community health Clinics serving those not qualified for Medicaid. We have a growing, paramount occupation of the illegal invaders, who have been hired by criminal businesses countrywide. My question, without fear of contradiction why should senior’s health care be slashed to free up resources for persons, who have never paid anything into the fund?     This includes females who deliberately slip across our borders, or concealing that they are pregnant when arriving by international flights. That in itself covers around 300.000 annually, according to the Federation of American immigration Reform. Thay can immediately get free health care under false pretenses of an amendment that has been manipulated by Leftist judges. THESE INDIVIDUAL ILLEGAL FAMILIES ARE ALREADY CAUSING FINANCIAL ISSUES FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES IN REDUCING HEALTH CARE AND LOWERING OUR ONCE HIGH EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS, BY COURTS THAT ARE NOT FOLLOWING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. THE LIBERAL PROGRESSIVES THINKS WE OWE THE WORLD A LIVING. THESE ECONOMIC MIGRANTS AND ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO STEAL FROM US BY SEROIUSLY FAULTED POLICIES.      Exhibiting their incompetence the Department of IN-Justice strong-armed different states, using the court system to force their own policies of what they claim is unconstitutional police laws. Arizona was essentially the first state to feel the wrath of judicial branch, followed by Alabama and Georgia. Each sovereign state’s main objective is to stop the occupation of ECONOMIC illegal aliens causing a major disruption in its public entitlement to its citizens and lawful residents. In connivance with the Communist founded ACLU, business concerns and the usual open border organizations, plus church and unions was to prosecute these ailing states. Without any relevant interest in the taxpayers tax extortion of every states, the DOJ is determined it is now time to buckle on the sword of menace and turning their radical attention on South Carolina. All these threatening postures will be remembered next November, when the TEA PARTY votes in force. The Obama  administration keeps quiet that fiscal costs of education for the children and free health care for illegal families, is a—UNFUNDED MANDATE ON THE 50 STATES.     Cuts to Medicare are not about reducing federal spending, but about redistributing healthcare. This is because we are importing more and more poverty, when we cannot support our own poor.     If we are to prevent this unfettered flow of desperate illegal nationals from other countries, we must bring to the floor of the house ‘The Legal Workforce Act’. Rep. Smiths MANDATORY E-Verify can and will finally turn the stream of illegal alien labor into trickle, turning of the faucet off for jobs eventually. Without the foundation of work, families will no longer be able to settle, unless they live completely on handouts from crippled welfare sources churches or charity. Removing the 8.5 million jobs from people who have no right to be here, will release those jobs, so American workers can pay their bills. Complicity between politicians and the business lobbyists, open border entities, have brought the United States to this dismal, hapless chaos we are surrounded by. E-Verify in its own way can regenerate jobs for lawful hires, and accomplishes uncountable self-deportations. The failure of Reagan’s 1986 Amnesty plan has brought tremendous bloodshed from illegal drunken drivers, hard core criminals brought here through unresponsiveness and corrupt lawmakers; many still sit in Washington.     Each far-sighted American can alter the financial direction we are heading, in the midst of Obama’s redistribution of what legal residents have worked for all their lives. Undertake to call legislators relating to ‘THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT’ (Bill H.R. 2885.)  Contact the WAYS & MEANS JUDICIAL COMMITTEE that can sponsor and expeditiously vote the law into reality. Don’t let this permanent law slip out of all Americans reach.  Start a incessant bombardment of the House of Representative, beginning with majority Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-OH) to get his fellow House Representatives of their unenthusiastic posteriors and sponsor Bill H.R. 2885. You can study more about the ‘Legal Workforce Act’ at the NumbersUSA website, which additionally gives you the current immigration records a grade for all the candidates in the GOP race for president. You can also send a free-fax through NumbersUSA or just please call your House Representative at the Congressional Switchboard phone number, who will switch you to the appropriate office at 202-224-3121.     Obama’s clan will do anything to win in 2012, including ignoring illegal aliens voting in the election. This has happened multiple times before, with the ACORN organization using inappropriate registrations and forged absentee ballots. The Tea Party will be involved in watching for irregularities in the general election.
notorious5to3
Nov 1, 2011 6:58 AM CDT
OK, so let me get this straight.  The federal government is forcing police officers to let their suspects go after they are discovered to be illegal AFTER at routine traffic stop.  What in the hell IS the criteria for turning in illegals?!
Barack_Must_Go
Nov 1, 2011 12:07 AM CDT
When is team Obama / Holder going to sue themselves on behalf of US white folks is what I want to know.

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