Texas Doubling Down???

[OK Corgi Rancher]

I like the idea of it, but I doubt it passes constitutional muster.

SCOTUS has pretty consistently ruled against states enforcing immigration law. States have some leeway but it's limited. I'll be surprised if this one isn't challenged immediately if it becomes law.

It's a great idea and I'm glad to see TX do it. But I don't think it'll last.

 

[Camo]

SCOTUS has pretty consistently ruled against states enforcing immigration law. States have some leeway but it's limited. I'll be surprised if this one isn't challenged immediately if it becomes law.

It's a great idea and I'm glad to see TX do it. But I don't think it'll last.

Texas has become known lately for doing their own thing. Doesn’t seem like they care a lot about federal law or federal overreach. I hope they make it stick

 

[Seadog]

I like the idea of it, but I doubt it passes constitutional muster.

Personally, I believe it would pass Constitutional muster easy. The only problem is it not being faithfully enforced by fecking Democrats

 

[Seadog]

SCOTUS has pretty consistently ruled against states enforcing immigration law. States have some leeway but it's limited. I'll be surprised if this one isn't challenged immediately if it becomes law.

It's a great idea and I'm glad to see TX do it. But I don't think it'll last.

Has that been the consensus straight across or just the progressive democrats when they had the swing vote?

 

[Glocktogo]

Has that been the consensus straight across or just the progressive democrats when they had the swing vote?

The Supremacy Clause is pretty zealously enforced regardless of who's in charge. Power is coveted and not relinquished lightly.

 

[Frank Pope]

Not sure of when this legislation was voted on.

Border states have to do something to defend themselves. Old Joe and company sure as hell won't do anything.

 

[dennishoddy]

I like the idea of it, but I doubt it passes constitutional muster.

The federal government actually has very little to say about immigrants or in our current situation, illegals. The 14th Amendment doesn't really give specific rights to the feds on that subject.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

Has that been the consensus straight across or just the progressive democrats when they had the swing vote?

I don't know the makeup of the court every time they've ruled on the supremacy clause. But the court in general has pretty consistently held the federal government is responsible for immigration.

And, it hasn't just been democrats that got us into this mess. Ronald Reagan signed legislation that made over 3 million illegals eligible for amnesty. And republicans in general haven't done a damn thing about the situation since Reagan. With friends like that, who needs enemies?

 

[RETOKSQUID]

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8 U.S. Code § 1324a - Unlawful employment of aliens​

(a) Making employment of unauthorized aliens unlawful
(1) In generalIt is unlawful for a person or other entity—
(A)
to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an alien knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien (as defined in subsection (h)(3)) with respect to such employment, or
(B)
(i)
to hire for employment in the United States an individual without complying with the requirements of subsection (b) or (ii) if the person or entity is an agricultural association, agricultural employer, or farm labor contractor (as defined in section 1802 of title 29), to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an individual without complying with the requirements of subsection (b).

(2) Continuing employment
It is unlawful for a person or other entity, after hiring an alien for employment in accordance with paragraph (1), to continue to employ the alien in the United States knowing the alien is (or has become) an unauthorized alien with respect to such employment.

 

[Seadog]

I don't know the makeup of the court every time they've ruled on the supremacy clause. But the court in general has pretty consistently held the federal government is responsible for immigration.

And, it hasn't just been democrats that got us into this mess. Ronald Reagan signed legislation that made over 3 million illegals eligible for amnesty. And republicans in general haven't done a damn thing about the situation since Reagan. With friends like that, who needs enemies?

People forget Regan had a stipulation that the border be closed after those illegals became legal. It was the democrat party that didn’t follow up like it should have. There was supposed to have been a wall of some sort built back then.

I was a youth when Regan was president. I remember he was a deal maker. He said something like it’s better to get 80% of something than nothing. I am definitely not a fan of the 1986 weapons ban. If I recall rite it was right after a guy went into a school and shot it up with a full auto AK. California I believe. I figure that was a knee jerk reaction because kids were killed.

Regan wasn’t perfect. But he did want the border secured