Ariz. officer sues over immigration law
April 30th, 2010 . by TexasFredAriz. officer sues over immigration law
PHOENIX — Anger mounted Thursday over an Arizona law cracking down on illegal immigration as a police officer filed one of the first lawsuits challenging the law and activists gathered outside an Arizona Diamondbacks game at Wrigley Field in Chicago, chanting “Boycott Arizona.”
The lawsuit from 15-year Tucson police veteran Martin Escobar is one of two filed Thursday, less than a week after Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed the law that’s sparked fears it will lead to racial profiling despite the governor’s vow that officers will be properly trained. Read his complaint here.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has said the federal government may challenge the law, which requires local and state law enforcement to question people about their immigration status if there’s reason to suspect they’re in the country illegally, and makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally.
Escobar, an overnight patrol officer in a heavily Latino area of Tucson, argues there’s no way for officers to confirm people’s immigration status without impeding investigations, and that the new law violates numerous constitutional rights.
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Ariz. officer sues over immigration law
Officer Escobar? Surely there’s no ethnic loyalty here? Is there? Surely he’s not against this law because he himself is a Hispanic? Of course not, what a silly supposition on my part! Surely he’s not against this law because he believes it could cause problems for some of his friends or his family? No…
What am I thinking? An Hispanic officer files suit against a law that HE feels is unfair in its written intent, a law that only mirrors the laws that our federal government won’t enforce, a law that he feels, through his vast knowledge of constitutional law is unconstitutional, and there’s no ethnic influence involved in his thinking? Yeah, that sounds about right…
The National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders also filed a lawsuit Thursday, and is seeking an injunction preventing authorities from enforcing the law. The group argues federal law pre-empts state regulation of national borders, and that Arizona’s law violates due process rights by letting police detain suspected illegal immigrants before they’re convicted.
Here we go again, some of those dumber than a bag of dog crap bleeding hearts crying about due process and detention before conviction.
Let me ask those bleeding hearts this ONE question: Do you need a conviction to know that the guy that just broke into your home is an INVADER? And that guy is there to do YOU and YOUR family harm? Do you need a court of law to make that decision for you?
I have heard people say that they would NOT defend their homes. I have heard it said that they would give the invaders anything they wanted just to placate them in hopes of no bodily harm happening to themselves or their family.
That’s exactly what this National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders is saying. Turn the other cheek. Let the INVADERS have what they want, maybe then they’ll just move on to a new target and leave us alone.
That’s NOT what’s going to happen. Read the declarations of La Raza and Aztlan, you’ll learn everything you ever wanted to know about RACISM and violence against anyone that is NOT a Hispanic. What is Aztlan, Raza, and MEChA
Look at what the Hispanic drug cartels are doing to each other in Mexico, and to any Hispanic, or any other ethnicity for that matter, that happens to be caught in the line of fire. That my friends is exactly what is going to happen right here in the USA if we don’t stop this INVASION, enforce the laws of this land, and deport ALL illegals, Hispanic or otherwise.
“Mexican-Americans are not going to take this lying down,” singer Linda Ronstadt, a Tucson native, said at a state Capitol news conference on another lawsuit planned by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Immigration Law Center.
Linda Ronstadt? I didn’t know she was still alive.
Well Linda, let me say this, when you drop the Mexican from American, you may have some credibility, but as it stands right now, you’re just another supporter of illegals and that makes you an accessory TO their illegal actions! The hyphenated American thing is costing you. They, and YOU Linda, are either American, or you are not!
And Linda, so you know, I don’t want illegals to take this lying down. I want them to take it standing up on both feet as they tote their illegal asses to the nearest border and LEAVE our home!
At least three Arizona cities - Phoenix, Flagstaff and Tucson - are considering legal action to block the law. In Flagstaff, police are investigating a threatening e-mail sent to members of the city council over their opposition to the law. The author said council members should be “arrested, tried in court, found guilty of treason and hanged from the nearest tree!”
The hypocrisy of these supporters of illegals would almost be funny if they weren’t such loons and moonbats. These people are sick! They actually are capable of these violent acts! They have nothing but disdain for the law of the land and it’s enforcement. They are obviously pretty stupid too. Arrested for TREASON?
Pay attention moonbats:
Treason – noun
1. the offense of acting to overthrow one’s government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
2. a violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or to one’s state.
3. the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.
Enforcement of the laws of the USA, writing laws FOR the USA, laws that are supported by at least 70% of the LEGAL, voting citizens of this nation is NOT an act of treason. It is justice in motion. It is the celebration of American law and the will of We, The People going forward as we try to stop the ILLEGALS that have invaded, and continue to invade our home!
I sincerely hope it doesn’t come to this, but if it’s WAR the illegals and their supporters want, then WAR it can be. A sovereign nation has every right to repel invaders. These illegals are nothing but invaders. Violent, disease carrying invaders!
Maybe it’s time that We, The People got a lot more involved in the protection of our home! Maybe it’s time for Martin Escobar to turn in his badge and find another line of work.
I hear that activists and community organizers make good money and have brilliant futures.
I think you have misjudged Officer Escobar.
He’s really just doing what our president promised would occur: providing transparency.
Yeah… Transparency… That’s it…
I am just wondering, Marty Escobar feels this law is ok to break, which others are ok to break? Stopping at a Red Light? If I broke into his house and took his television set, would that be OK? What if I killed someone? Where is the line? What laws are ok to be broken?
This is a nation of laws, if we do not enfoce them we will become an anarchy
Do you think the illegals would rather have vigilante justice than legal law enforcement? That’s what they will get if they push the people of Arizona or for that matter the populace of the rest of the border states into a corner. A border war is not a winning proposition for the illegals, Mexico and their minions. They will lose big time. Americans from all states will come to the southern border area to fight this battle. The illegal alien problem would then be solved once and for all. If they know what’s good for them, they should all slink back into Mexico.
“Escobar, an overnight patrol officer in a heavily Latino area of Tucson, argues there’s no way for officers to confirm people’s immigration status without impeding investigations, and that the new law violates numerous constitutional rights.”
Oh please, illegal immigrants have No Constitutional Rights in this Country…so get a grip Officer Escobar and go back to patrolling the streets.
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Sounds like he might be afraid he would have to ask his cousins for their papers…or maybe his mama.
When I was a Police Officer I remember taking the Oath to uphold all the laws of the land..City, State, and Federal….so whether he agress to this new law or not….he should still uphold the old law on the Federal books…and arrest someone if they are here illegally.
You know I just thought about this…someone in his town might want to file a law suit against him for NOT enforcing the law.
Yes, Officer Escobar. Yes. Perhaps it IS time you unpinned your badge, returned your service handgun, and went to work for La Raza. Think of the social worker you could be!
BZ
So officer Escobar thinks it’s alright for millions of Mexicans to impose on the American people, eh? If he and his kind had any guts they’d go back to Mexico and demonstrate down the for their “rights”. No, they are gutless and had rather soil our streets with their Mexican flags and middle finger flipoffs as we take care of their freeloaders. Here in Ft. Collins they are “demonstrating” with Mexican flags being shoved in our faces. MY SUGGESTION IS THAT THEY GO BACK TO SOUTH OF THE BORDER AND DEMONSTRATE OR THEIR “RIGHTS” DOWN THERE. THAT’S THEIR COUNTRY ISN’T IT? THEY DON’T HAVE THE GUTS TO DO THAT SO MY KIDS AND GRANDKIDS MUST TAKE CARE OF THEIR ENDLESS BROODS AND BROOD SOWS FOR ANOTHER GENERATION OR TWO.