11 Replies to “All your states are belong to us: Obama Administration files challenge against Alabama”

1. Cowboy Curtis says:

   October 7, 2011 at 10:33 am

   Lay off my boots Harley, I’m in no fucking mood.

2. bh says:

   October 7, 2011 at 10:34 am

   That might be the worst mismatch between photo and caption that I’ve ever seen.

3. sdferr says:

   October 7, 2011 at 10:36 am

   Does seem as though a certain quantum of self-outing would be entailed in such a response (“staying home”), doesn’t it?

4. Hadlowe says:

   October 7, 2011 at 10:52 am

   That is odd, bh. Although, I’m not quite certain how you would capture a photo of thousands of hispanic workers staying at home, but it seems that you could do better than “hundreds of white folks standing around a cop.”

5. sdferr says:

   October 7, 2011 at 10:54 am

   Hmmm, I think he’s a priest, Hadlowe.

6. Seth says:

   October 7, 2011 at 11:35 am

   Fucking idiotic. They check the shit out of someone’s status when they apply for a visa to be here legally…why the hell would they mind having it checked if they have a valid visa? What the douche gargling Pelosi on a pogo-stick?!? I frikken hate what passes for progressive “thought”.

7. LBascom says:

   October 7, 2011 at 11:47 am

   the Obama administration wrote that Alabama’s immigration law “is highly likely to expose persons lawfully in the United States, including school children, to new difficulties in routine dealings.”

   Oh no! Not difficulties in routine dealings?! We can’t have that!

   Call the white house, press 3 for english, and beg them to keep protecting us from difficulties in routine dealings. That’s what government does.

8. McGehee says:

   October 7, 2011 at 12:03 pm

   I have to go through a fucking metal detector damn near anyplace I want to go anymore that’s in a “public” building. I have zero sympathy for anybody worried about “difficulties in routine dealings.” Get back to me when the welfare office has those goddamn metal detectors.

9. A fine scotch says:

   October 7, 2011 at 12:09 pm

   Apparently no one in the Obama admin has ever tried to get tech support for damn near anything. “Difficulties in routine dealings” my ass.

10. newrouter says:

    October 7, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    no mention of gunwalker

    The Justice Department’s appeal said parts of the law conflict with federal rules, and that “attempts to drive aliens `off the grid’ will only impede the removal process established by federal law.” It also said the legislation could impact diplomatic relations with foreign countries.

    “Alabama is not in a position to answer to other nations for the consequences of its policy,” it said. “That is the responsibility of the federal government, which speaks for all the states and must ensure that the consequences of one state’s foray in to the realm of immigration law are not visited upon the nation as a whole.”

    Link

11. SDN says:

    October 8, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    That the act of verifying legal status is itself harmful to legal immigrants.

    This is EXACTLY what produced the housing crisis: Even having the questions about income, credit history, etc. on the application form might offend someone, so the banks omitted them. Which means you can’t ask anyone about these things.

    Either the same standards apply to everyone, or they apply to no one. In which case, why have them at all? (Except, of course, for the selective enforcement value.)

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