| Issue: Illegal Immigration |
Summary
The ACRU supports legal immigration but opposes illegal immigration. The Constitution gives Congress authority over immigration. It also created federalism, which allows states and cities to act when Congress fails to act. Existing laws on immigration should be enforced at the national, state and federal level. Existing laws to build a fence, like the very successful one below San Diego, should be carried out as quickly as possible. The ACRU opposes the efforts of the ACLU to water down, or strike down, the laws intended to assure that only Americans vote in American elections, and that Americans and legal aliens are the residents and the workforce in America.
No Current Cases
07/27/09: ACLU Supports ACORN, Voter Fraud
The ACLU has filed suit in Pennsylvania in defense of ACORN for a declaration that a law there is unconstitutional for preventing the kind of voter fraud which is a hallmark of ACORN efforts nationally. In short, the ACLU claims...
06/10/09: ACLU Loses Effort to Keep Non-Americans on Voter Rolls
The Supreme Court has rejected the ACLU appeal of a Circuit Court decision upholding the Georgia Voter ID law. This law requires new voters to present documentation to show they are both citizens and residents. The ACLU attacked this law,...
07/ 2/08: Sanctuary Insanity in San Francisco
It is perhaps not surprising that San Francisco has provided the ultimate example in civic madness of where the concept of "sanctuary city" can lead. After being caught flying "juvenile" drug dealers back to their home countries accompanied by city...
04/29/08: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS INDIANA VOTER ID LAW
The Supreme Court ruled today 6-3 in favor of the Indiana Voter ID law which requires registered voters to present a valid form of identification when they go to the polls.
02/25/08: Children Killed and Stolen From, Thanks to the ACLU
Four school children were killed in Minnesota, when a women driving a van apparently ran a stop sign, struck and overturned a school bus. The woman had no drivers license, gave an apparent false name, and admitted that she was...
11/ 2/07: Oklahoma Law on Illegal Immigration Stands
Oklahoma passed a law to discourage businesses in that state from hiring illegal aliens, and property owners from renting to illegal aliens, similar to laws passed in Hazleton, Penn., and Farmers Branch, Tex. But in Oklahoma, the federal judge considering...
09/27/07: You Can Run over a Child in Massachusetts
On September 26th, Antonio Montenegro ran over a child on a bicycle in a crosswalk, in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Montenegro is an illegal immigrant who has been driving without a license for eight years. Onlookers forced him to stop when he ran over 12-year-old Zachary Titus, who was on his bicycle..
09/ 7/07: ACLU Settles One Alien Case, Allies File Another
The ACLU has settled one case against Homeland Security concerning a holding facility in Texas for whole families of illegal aliens. At the same time, one of the largest, most left-wing unions in the US files a new suit against...
08/29/07: Attorney General of New Jersey Fronts for the ACLU
The Attorney General of New Jersey has joined with the US Attorney for that state, to tell the Mayor of Morristown that his police should not check the immigration status of most of the people they question and arrest. They did this despite the fact that the bodies are not yet cold in the ground from the assassination of three people in that state by an illegal immigrant who could have and should have been either in jail or thrown out of the US at the time he (according to witnesses) did the killings.
05/ 8/07: ACLU Engaging in 'Shakedown' Project
AP: ACLU Engaging in 'Shakedown' Project On 5 May, 2007, the Associated Press ran a story entitled "Local Immigration Laws Bring High Costs." It described a nationwide shakedown project by the ACLU. Only the AP missed the larger story. The...
04/11/07: ACLU Displays its Paranoia
ACLU Displays its Paranoia The facts, but not the legal conclusions, for this article come from an article in the Boston Globe on 26 March. The title of the article is, "Inhumane raid was just one of many (Endgame)." It...
12/12/06: ACLU Sues Police to Protect Illegal Aliens
The background for this comment came from an article published by Channel 7 News in Boston on its website. It credited the Associated Press with the story. The ACLU sued the State Police in Rhode Island, seeking the release of...
09/29/06: The ACLU Defends Illegals in Los Angeles
An article in World Net Daily on 16 September, 2006, described an ACLU-sponsored effort to support Special Order 40 of the Los Angeles Police Department. This Order requires the police in that City to refuse to ask for and act...
09/29/06: ACLU Part of Mexican-Affiliated Open Borders Group
The Associated Press wrote a story published in the Arizona Star on August 24 about a "new civil rights group" which is objecting to certain policies of the US Border Patrol. What the AP failed to report is that this...
09/28/06: ACLU Sues Town Over Illegal Immigration Crackdown
Associated Press - 8/16/2006 The ACLU has sued the town of Hazelton, Pennsylvania over one of the toughest crackdowns on illegal immigrants by a U.S. city. Hazelton officials have passed a law that would fine landlords $1000 for renting to...
09/28/06: ACLU Attacks Anti-Illegal Immigration Policy at Schools
WNBC-TV - 9/1/2006 Americans who do not have young children may not know this, but federal law now requires that parents obtain Social Security numbers for their school-aged children. Many New Jersey schools are asking students to provide their SS...
09/28/06: ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Anti-Voter Fraud Measure
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 9/4/2006 One City (Albuquerque, NM) and several states have passed similar laws which require photo ID for voters in their jurisdictions. These laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In some the photo IDs are mandatory...
09/27/06: John Armor: Hazelton: The People vs. the ACLU
Louis Barletta, mayor of Hazleton, Pa., has thrown down the gauntlet to those who think America belongs to anyone who can walk across the border. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a Puerto Rican group have taken up the challenge. And the mayor has upped the ante by hiring as defense counsel the former head of immigration in the Justice Department.
09/29/07: Anchor Babies, Away
EXCERPT: The Constitution is simple, short and easy to read. There is no excuse for any reporter to write about it, without reading it. The latest example is an article about anchor babies in the Orlando Sentinel today (29 September) by...
09/24/07: Judging the Judges, and the Reporters
EXCERPT: On 24 September, the New York Times published an article on the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, which approved the Indiana voter ID law in January, in a divided decision. The losing plaintiffs asked the...
08/14/07: Gizzi: The ACLU Strikes Again -- And Again -- For Illegal Immigration
EXCERPT: John Gizzi over at Human Event Online, in his latest "Gizzi on Politics" post, has written an important post regarding the ACLU's efforts to thwart local ordinances to protect against the crime and costs of illegal immigration. Here's the relevant...
07/27/07: Judge Overrules Right of Municipalities to Protect Against Illegal Immigration
EXCERPT: Executive Summary: Judge Munley has ruled (AP: "Judge strikes down Hazleton's illegal immigrant law,") that local ordinances to protect munincipalities of bearing the cost of illegal immigration, like the one in Hazelton, PA, re "preempted by federal law." This is...
07/ 9/07: It Came from Beyond the Senate: The Illegal Immigration Issue LIVES on
EXCERPT: Executive Summary: An unlikely alliance between a talk radio host and a college professor, who got run down by an illegal alien, has sparked a turn-around for Tulsa, Oklahoma. From a sanctuary city it has become a watchful and wary...
06/20/07: Georgia Supreme Court Throws Out Challenge to Voter ID Law
EXCERPT: On Monday, June 11th, the Georgia Supreme Court reversed a trial court decision that a Georgia law requiring photo ID for all voters, was unconstitutional. The court's decision was unanimous, but not substantive. It was that the Plaintiff lacked standing...
06/19/07: House and Senate Act Oppositely on 'Sanctuary Cities'
EXCERPT: In the last week (as of 18 June), the US Senate and House have acted in opposite directions on the subject of "Sanctuary Cities." These are cities which take deliberate steps to protect illegal immigrants within their boundaries, who can...
06/14/07: City of Mamaroneck Succumbs to Pressure from ACLU to Give Special Benefits to Illegal Immigrants
EXCERPT: Under pressure from a federal law suit of the type that has been filed by the ACLU against many small communities across the country, the City of Mamaroneck, NY, agreed that it will not enforce federal laws concerning citizens of...
06/11/07: Come On In, The Benefits Are Free: New Haven's Response to Illegal Immigration
EXCERPT: The Board of Aldermen of New Haven, Connecticut, have by an astonishing vote of 25-1 approved special City-issued IDs for illegal aliens. The program is also strongly supported by Mayor John DeStefano, Jr., who said, "It's a practical response to...
06/ 5/07: ID Cards for Illegals?
EXCERPT: The Aldermen of New Haven, Connecticut, have just approved ID cards for illegal immigrants in that City. The purpose is to allow them to open bank accounts and receive city services including welfare. Was anyone on the Board of Aldermen...
06/ 2/07: Border Security in Wonderland
EXCERPT: Perhaps last week's top news story, not counting whatever Rosie O'Donnell and Lindsay Lohan were doing, was the story of Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta personal injury lawyer who decided it would be a good idea to fly a few thousand...
05/31/07: What Exactly Is Given Sanctuary in "Sanctuary Cities?"
EXCERPT: Scott Johnson of Power Line tells us what gets sanctuary in "sanctuary cities" in his shocking report, which I repeat in full below. To give the short answer, what gets sanctuary is human trafficking and sex slavery. When the police...
05/25/07: Ed Meese on the Immigration Debate: Rhetoric vs Reality
EXCERPT: Here is the Hon. Ed Meese, ACRU Policy Board Member and former Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, commenting on the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill currently being debated in congress in a "Heritage In Focus" video, produced by the Heritage Foundation:...
05/24/07: Thomas Sowell Speaks Up on Immigration
EXCERPT: The ACRU does not lobby for or against pending legislation. This does not prevent us from joining an important national debate, however, by bringing readers the views of others (and sometimes our own) on issues relevant to the discussion. Many...
05/22/07: Let the Voters Decide -- For a Day, Anyway
EXCERPT: Many readers will remember that Farmers Branch, Texas, a Dallas suburb, recently enacted an ordinance to the effect that landlords may not rent to illegal immigrants. The ordinance went to a vote after a pro-illegal immigrant group waged a vigorous...
05/22/07: The Farmers Branch Absurdity
EXCERPT: Farmers Branch, a small Texas town near Dallas, passed an ordinance imposing penalties on landlords who might rent their apartments to illegal aliens. The act included a requirement that the voters must approve it. In an exceptional turnout last Saturday,...
05/22/07: There Is No Such Thing As A "National ID Card"
EXCERPT: Below is a description of the provisions of what is inaccurately being called the National ID Act. These are minimum standards which all states are required to follow, as a matter of national security and illegal immigration. All states are...
05/16/07: Disrespect for Law Doesn't Always Stop Where You Think It Will
EXCERPT: A Reuters article published yesterday ("Workers sue U.S. factory after immigration raid") reports that several hundred illegal immigrant workers at a plant south of Boston have sued the company for cheating them on their wages. The article portrays the illegal...
05/16/07: Local Front in Battle to Restore Rule of Law for Immigration Receives Bipartisan Boost
EXCERPT: Who says standing against illegal immigration and the consequences thereof is a political loser? The ACRU has been fighting in support of the mayor of Hazelton, PA and his effort to crack down on landlords and employers who create the...
05/14/07: Let the People Decide, as Long as They Wear Black Robes
EXCERPT: John Armor notes that a pro-illegal immigrant group which opposed the Hazelton-style ordinance adopted in Texas (by a vote of better than two-to-one) called itself, "Let the People Decide." Not to miss a beat, this same group is now going...
05/14/07: 'Let the People Decide Illegal Immigration!' (Or Maybe Not)
EXCERPT: One of the slogans of the opponents of the Farmers Branch immigration ordinances, was "Let the people vote." (See "Anti-Illegal-Immigrant Law OK'd in Texas.") Now, the people HAVE voted, 68-32, to approve the ordinances designed to discourage illegal immigrants in...
05/ 2/07: Rallies for Illegal Immigration: The Big Flop on May 1
EXCERPT: Yesterday, May 1, was supposed to be a banner day for rallying support for "immigration reform." ("Immigration reform," incidentally, is one of those phrases that belongs in the Dictionary for the Politically Incorrect, since its actual meaning is concealed behind...
05/ 2/07: A "Sanctuary City" Has Second Thoughts
EXCERPT: The Virginian-Pilot reports today that Virginia Beach, which had instructed its police that, except in limited circumstances, they were not to inquire into the immigration status of persons they arrested, has now changed course. The Pilot article begins as follows:...
05/ 1/07: We're Not Asking That Much
EXCERPT: A headline among today's MSNBC news entries reads, "Immigrant rights groups rally across the U.S." The story beneath the headline notes that some of the participants in the rallies will decline to wear T-shirts they donned last year, which bore...
04/24/07: One Cheer for the Ninth Circuit On Arizona's Honest-Voter Law
EXCERPT: It is not very often that the American Civil Rights Union has kind words for the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Nor does the US Supreme Court have many kind words for them, either. That Court...
04/23/07: Vote Fraud Takes a Hit in the Ninth Circuit
EXCERPT: Congratulations to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for its decision on Friday refusing to enjoin Arizona from enforcing Proposition 200, which Arizona voters adopted in 2004 to stem vote fraud. Proposition 200 amended Arizona law to...
04/13/07: The Top Five Reasons to Oppose "Sanctuary Cities"
EXCERPT: Reason No. 5: Because sanctuary cities facilitate and encourage illegal immigration, they are unfair to legal immigrants, who waited in line, followed the rules and showed respect for the law. Reason No. 4: Sanctuary cities impose costs on their residents...
