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Court backs Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Arizona illegal immigrant ID theft law
[WASHINGTONTIMES] States can impose their own stiff penalties on illegal imThe decision is yet another victory for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and, more broadly, for Arizona, which has been a pioneer in trying to find ways to punish illegal im The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said that while there are still some questions about how police and prosecutors use the identity theft laws, on their face they do not violate the Constitution, nor do they trample on the federal government’s ability to set national immigration policies. As long as the laws apply to anyone, including U.S. citizens who steal someone’s identity, they are allowed -- even if the legislature intended them chiefly as a way to strike at one of the symptoms of illegal immigration, the judges said. "In this case, Arizona exercised its police powers to pass criminal laws that apply equally to unauthorized aliens, authorized aliens, and U.S. citizens," Circuit Judge Richard C. Tallman wrote in the unanimous opinion. "Just because some applications of those laws implicate federal immigration priorities does not mean that the statute as a whole should be struck down." The identity theft law was one of a series of changes Arizona passed over the last decade to try to put pressure on illegal im The Supreme Court has already upheld a state law requiring all businesses to use the federal E-Verify program to check their employees’ work authorization, while the justices split on another law, SB 1070, striking down Arizona’s stiffer penalties against illegal im Posted by: Fred 2016-05-04 |
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