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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 13:33:29 -0400
From: immigrationinfo@numbersusa.com
From: Roy Beck, President,
NumbersUSA
Date: Monday 6JUN2011 Noon
EDT
SUPREME COURT SAYS COURT OF APPEALS
WAS WRONG IN BLOCKING
HAZELTON'S E-VERIFY ORDINANCE
MAYOR LOU BARLETTA'S ORDINANCE SPARKED A NATIONAL EFFORT OF LOCAL &
STATES TO PASS OWN E-VERIFY LAWS
This Ruling Opens Way For A Lot More Pressure Against Illegal Foreign
Workers -- 2 Weeks After Supreme Court Approved Arizona's E-Verify Law
The Associated Press has just reported that "two weeks after issuing a
major ruling affirming a state's right to pass legislation cracking down
on employers who knowingly hire illegal workers, the Supreme Court has
voided a lower court ruling blocking a city ordinance that does the same
and also targets landlords who willfully house illegals."
ACTION: Please go to your Action Board and send more faxes to your
Members of Congress urging Congress to mandate E-Verify for all
employers nationwide.
With this newest Supreme Court ruling, the pressure increases greatly on
Congress to create a uniform national standard, since the coast is now
clear for cities, counties and states across the nation to pass mandates
on their own.
NumbersUSA members will remember the years of support that they have
provided to then-Mayor Lou Barletta and the city of Hazelton, Pa., as
they tried to reduce their illegal population by requiring local
employers to use E-Verify.
At our May symposium for our strongest supporters, both Barletta and
Hazelton's lawyer -- Kris Kobach -- spoke about what it was like to be
nearly all alone in the federal courts system facing multitudes of
lawyers from giant national groups opposing them.
Barletta (now the U.S . Representative from that area) and Kobach (now
the Secretary of State of Kansas) talked about the signs of extreme
prejudice shown by the federal judges that led to the circuit court and
then the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals blocking Hazelton's law.
And they told our supporters that they remained confident that the
Supreme Court would see that the little city of Hazelton knew the law
better than those two lower federal courts.
This case is not over, though. The Supreme Court's action sent the case
back to the Third Circuit with instructions to review the matter in
light of the Supreme Court's ruling about the Arizona E-Verify law.
The Supreme Court ruling was 5-3 on Hazelton -- the same as on the
Arizona case.
Kris Kobach had always argued that the Hazelton ordinance was written
strictly to be in line with federal law.
Speaking to the court, representing the Immigration Reform Law
Institute, Kobach said: "Hazleton's ordinances match th e terms and
classifications of federal immigration law and require officials to
defer to federal determinations of aliens' immigration statuses. In
drafting the ordinances, the city made every effort to avoid any
conflict with federal immigration laws."
AP reported that that is the same argument Arizona's lawyers made when
their case went before the court and is one that Chief Justice John
Roberts and four of his colleagues agreed with.
"(Federal law) expressly reserves to the states the authority to impose
sanctions on employers hiring unauthorized workers, through licensing
and similar laws. In exercising that authority, Arizona has taken the
route least likely to cause tension with federal law," Roberts wrote
last month.
I hope every one of you will go to your NumbersUSA Action Board and send
faxes to your Members of Congress to take adv antage of the momentum
created by this latest Supreme Court ruling.
Thanks,
-- ROY
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