States Enforcing Federal Immigration Law

[badger2]

#5's 'felon-friendly' trajectory is precisely where immigration meets emigration. The contradictions include the sanctuary city in Tennessee that wanted to become the pioneer of the idea: just outside felon-friendly Memphis is where legal American youths are cloistered to receive treatment for mental illness. Sooner or later, the two concepts will clash. A prioritized Cuckoo's Nest vs a prioritized Immigrant at Gold Mountain.

 

[danielpalos]

A great option that President Trump is completely neglecting is enforcing immigration law by creating executive orders that allow states to act as immigration deputies of the executive branch. The states would be allowed to create their own immigration enforcement tools to arrest or fine anyone trespassing on their land. If states were given immigration enforcement powers, they could arrest the illegal immigrants, fine them for trespassing, and then hold them for the federal government to deport them. After all, the states would be agents of the federal government

No one is suggesting that the federal government force the states or local governments to do anything regarding immigration. President Trump has the power to ALLOW states and local governments to help enforce immigration laws IF THEY WANT TO. So, if the state of Arizona want to enact a law that gives police officers the ability to question drivers about their immigration status during traffic stops, they can. If the city of Farmer's Branch wants to enact a law requiring landlords to check the immigration status of their tenants, they can. If the state of California wants to totally ignore immigration law, they can.

A few years back, a number of states and cities started creating dozens of laws to enforce immigration. The main reason why states are currently unable to enforce immigration law is because President Obama said that he did not want them to help, and the Supreme Court said that the Constitution give the federal government (ie. current President) broad exclusive powers to decided who can and cannot enforce immigration law. There is nothing that prevent President Trump from creating a program where the federal, state, and local governments can work together on immigration if they want and then give the state and local government the flexibility to decided how they want to enforce it. Thank of it as 287(g) on steroids.

Only the right wing wants to waste money on larger government.