DOJ lawsuit filed against Arizona & SB-1070 sets the stage for milestone ruling

As expected, The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit yesterday against Arizona’s darconian SB-1070, weeks before the law is scheduled to go into effect. SB 1070 “is pre-empted by federal law and therefore violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution,” legal papers filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix contend. The lawsuit says the legislation conflicts with the federal government’s need to balance the competing interests of enforcing federal immigration law with the country’s diplomatic relations with other nations, including Mexico.

 
Arizona SB 1070 - A path to citizenship for many detained.

From Leanne at BLUE WAVE NEWS There can be little doubt that the intent behind Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB 1070, is to drive undocumented people out of the state, either through direct deportation or by making life so inhospitable in Arizona that they would slip into other neighboring states. But detailed research by an Arizona-based news outlet concludes that the law could actually make it easier for undocumented immigrants with clean arrest records to stay in the state on a path to legal citizenship.

 
UPDATED -William Gheen's $10,000.00 weekend getaway- CANCELED due to Gheens ineptness and ego

What comes to mind reading the latest $199.00 press release from William Gheen of ALIPAC is Gheen’s comment to Jim Gilchrist several years ago. “If there wasn’t money to be made from the immigration debate, I’d have nothing to do with it” – William Gheen Now, Gheen has sent a pleading for his followers to “pass the hat” to finance his trip to Arizona next month for the “Sand Krackers Desert Shindig” to support SB-1070 and the other anti Hispanic measures coming fast and furious from the statehouse in Phoenix. Willy estimates this weekend getaway will cost his followers a minimum of $10,000.00 We estimate that we are going to need to spend around $10,000 for this new additional project MORE