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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
The civil rights lawsuits are being taking care of by the ACLU and while I can see the validity in that lawsuit I'm not sure about the DOJ being able to prove that local enforcement of Fed law impedes the Feds from enforcing the same laws. If you read SB1070, it's essentially just mandating that state law enforcement agencies enforce federal immigration laws.
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Yeah it's two seperate bits there civil rights and jurisdiction.
And I guess I'm not sure. I object on the civil rights grounds and I see the fed's side that if every state passes their own immigration laws things are going to be very .. well difficult at the least. I think it depends on what happens after the local police make a call to ICE - are they allowed to hold someone for federal reasons (not even charges)? Are they going to be makine 300 calls to ICE a day? I don't know enough about law enforcement to know.