Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is asking legislators to consider whether they should change the state's immigration law in response to a judge's ruling blocking parts of it.
Brewer spokesman Paul Senseman confirms that the governor called top legislative leaders to broach the possibility of changing provisions of the law on Thursday, a day after U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton issued a preliminary injunction.
Senseman stresses that the possibility of having legislators meet in special session to consider changing the law is merely being explored. And he says Brewer is still pressing ahead with her appeal of Bolton's order.
Senate President Bob Burns says he'd need to know a lot more before he supports holding a special session.
DataMan posted at 4:02 pm on Fri, Jul 30, 2010.
Change it from the bottom up or walk way and cut your loses. Those are the two choices.
Why not just say that all LE in AZ must get trained in federal 287(g) laws and procedures and then use them? And have the State foot at least part of the bill for this.
Many of the larger LE agencies already have 287(g) trained people. While MCSO did have their street level 287(g) taken away, Phx, Mesa, and many more still have it.
hillstreet posted at 7:13 pm on Fri, Jul 30, 2010.
Anybody knows that dipsh-t woman's IQ? She is an embarrassment for the state every time she speaks.
Bobber46 posted at 7:53 pm on Fri, Jul 30, 2010.
Hillstreet, Her I.Q. is higher than yours I'm guessing; You are an embarassment to the State.
hillstreet posted at 10:42 am on Sun, Aug 1, 2010.
Defend your girl all you want. Two college degrees v. her GED. Every time she speaks she sound like a hick from Wickenburg![beam]
forkedlift1 posted at 6:25 pm on Sun, Aug 1, 2010.
It's inevitable that Brewer is devoid of critical thinking skills, but it's unknown how many of Brewer's habitual misstatements and distortions of fact are due to her lack of comprehension and how many are due to patent dishonesty.
For example, in today's Republic, Brewer staunchly defends SB 1070, blaming it all on Obama, and says, "Illegal immigration burdens our education, our social-service and law enforcement systems at the very time we have to cut services throughout state government."
"Burdens our law enforcement systems"???
Has she not listened to the majority of our law enforcement agencies and cities throughout the state who spoke of the excessive cost burden that unfunded SB 1070 would be for those agencies and municipalities?
Even if she didn't hear them, she contradicts herself.
Here Brewer is considering changing the state's immigration law in response to the judge's ruling enjoining certain parts of it.
Yet, in enjoining Section 6 of the law, the judge spoke of the burden that provision would be for unqualified law enforcement officers. To enforce this section of the bill, she reasoned, law enforcement officers would be required to understand which public offenses subject an individual to removal from the United States. According to the judge this task is extremely complex. Under current federal law, this determination is made by immigration judges and federal appeals court judges.
In its argument, the United States also presented evidence that Arizona law enforcement officers "have no familiarity with assessing whether a public offense would make an alien removable from the United States."
Bolton determined that this provision would likely result in law enforcement officers wrongfully arresting legal residents, which is in conflict with federal immigration policy.
Did Brewer not read or understand the judge's ruling.
AFTER the judge's ruling on the injunction,
(1) Brewer writes that illegal immigration CURRENTLY burdens our law enforcement systems, and
(2) Brewer floats the idea of rewriting SB 1070 to conform to the judge's rulings on the injunction.
Yet the judge has effectively ruled that the provisions of SB 1070 would more than overburden Arizona's law enforcement officers by making excessive enforcement demands on them in a realm that they are unequipped to enforce.
If anyone can figure out where Brewer's mind is in her simultaneous contradictory pronouncements, please clue me in.