California’s immigrant worker law hands Trump a golden opportunity

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In 2012, California politicians and activists rallied across the country to call upon the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down an Arizona law enforcing federal immigration laws. They argued that such a measure is clearly preempted by federal law, which should solely dictate immigration policy. The Supreme Court in Arizona v. United States ultimately struck down parts of the law at the behest of the Obama administration.

Now, just six years later, it is California that has passed a law obstructing federal enforcement. Advocates are now insisting that California’s Immigrant Worker Protection Act must stand despite ordering businesses not to cooperate with federal enforcement. To prevail, the Supreme Court would have to issue a seemingly conflicted ruling that, while Arizona’s law assisting in immigration enforcement was unconstitutional, it is perfectly constitutional for California to pass a law inhibiting such enforcement.

There are legitimate issues over the federal government requiring state police to hold a person without a warrant. However, the Immigrant Workers Protection Act moves far beyond any prior incursion into federal immigration enforcement. Notably, California politicians like Harris have objected to the federal government making demands on state officials to enforce immigration laws. But this law forces private citizens to hamper federal enforcement. It effectively tells employers to choose between the federal and state governments, including ordering them to take actions that would directly undermine federal enforcement.

Becerra and California have put private businesses and citizens in the path of federal enforcement. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is unlikely to be deterred by the involuntary conscription of private businesses as a barrier to enforcement. There is a long-standing adage that “hard cases make bad law.” California may have just handed Sessions a golden opportunity to curtail the Golden State.

https://jonathanturley.org/2018/01/...nity-to-curtail-the-golden-state/#more-133050

 

[Rightguide]

Sessions can do what voters couldn't do, remove radical Democrats from office and put them where they really belong. Let us wish him God Speed.