Jan Brewer rebuffs deferred action immigrants
Barb ShellyLest anyone may have forgotten, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer wants us to know that illegal immigrants have no rights in her state. And that includes the many young people who now are eligible to apply for work permits and a reprieve from the threat of deportation.
Brewer has signed an executive order declaring that just because people might get work permits from the federal government, that doesn’t mean they have any “lawful or authorized status” or access to “any additional public benefit” in Arizona.
Brewer also directed state agencies to “make any changes necessary” within the parameters of state and federal law to make sure the deferred action recipients receive no taxpayer-funded benefits or state identification, including a drivers’ license.
Undocumented immigrants already are barred from obtaining drivers’ licenses in Arizona. So on its face, Brewer’s order doesn’t really do anything new, as this post from TPM explains. But it raises the question of whether a state can legally deny an official ID to a person with authorized status in the United States.
It sounds like more legal action may be headed to Arizona. But meanwhile, you have a governor giving her best cold shoulder to thousands of people who are willing and able to better themselves and the state.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months agoYes ms. shelly, ILLEGAL ALIENS, not your euphemistic “illegal immigrants”, truly have no rights here. They have and continue to break our laws by being here and certainly deserve no state sponsored aid.
What is so difficult to you libs about the word ILLEGAL?
the big 0 by his Executive Order merely demonstrated again his disdain for representative democracy, the rule of law and of course our Constitution. He thinks this is a campaign stroke of genius that will garner him votes, and his ignoring the oath he swore to uphold has no consequence.
He is truly a law-breaking president.
Mark Hastert
9 months agoLeave it to a Republican to find a solution to a nonexistent problem.
JR Beillenhouser
9 months agoLeave it to a Democrat to ignore a real problem.
Phil Cardarella
9 months agoJR:
Let’s see: Young people who came here as children,consider themselves American, who go to school and/or join the military and stay out of trouble with the law — who want to learn, serve, work and contribute to our nation — is your concept of a “problem”?
Do you maybe understand why some of us think that might be just a wee bit racist?
Sorta like insisting on referring to undocumented fellow human beings as “illegal aliens”?
This country has a bunch of problems. These kids are not one of them. The bigotry that sees these valuable national assets as a “problem”? It is.
Phil Cardarella
9 months agoNice touch, Buzz.
FDR — to his shame — ordered American citizens of Japanese descent rounded up like criminals and sent to concentration camps. While there, their jobs and property could be stolen — and were.
American of Italian and German descent were not persecuted. After all, they were white.
And how did those suspect Japanese-Americans react to this racist injustice? They volunteered and formed the most highly-decorated combat unit in the US military.
Brewer saw a chance for the spotlight. The real question is who thinks that a person like her heaping scorn on decent kids — American in all but the paperwork, who only want to live and contribute in the only country that they have ever know as their home — is worthy of anything but contempt?
I’d trade a hundred Brewers and Kobachs for one of these kids.
Matt Henry
9 months agoPerhaps she would have been more likely to play along if this most recent federal change came in the form of a change to federal law instead of a decision by the Executive branch, in contradiction to their primary job function, to simply choose not to follow the law.
Mark Hastert
9 months agoPerhaps she would have been more likely to play along if this most recent federal change came in the form of a change to federal law instead of a decision by the Executive branch
…and it we had a Congress that would do their lob the executive branch wouldn’t have to to it. It was the Republicans that rebuffed John McCain’s, GW Bush’s initiative to reform immigration. It was Pres Obama that stepped up enforcement and deportations. Should he have not done that? When you have a do-nothing Congress like this one (the least productive since 1947 but then they swore they would be when he was elected) somehow we still have to address the issues. The Repubs don’t want immigration reform, they want red meat for the Tea Party until after the election. Brewer is just another Michelle Bachmann wannabe.
Ray Parker
Overland Park
9 months agoKansas Gov. Brownback will do the same, if he knows what his constituents want. The Mombasa Marxist cannot strike down federal and state immigration laws with his pen. Congress wouldn’t do it, and federal judges won’t do it, either. Keep illegal aliens out of our schools, out of our work force, and out of our country. Build the dang fence. Run ‘em out.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months agoGet ready for the onslaught Ray….
You can’t be soooooooooooooooooooooooo heartless to these ILLEGAL ALIENS. After all, jimmy II has decreed that our laws don’t even apply to them. So, quit being sooooooooooo damm heartless. :-)
Phil Cardarella
9 months agoRay: Why would you want to build a fence from Washington to Maine? Oh, wait…
I suspect what you want is to build a fence along the border we seized at gunpoint from our peaceful neighbor, Mexico, in 1848. And, I suspect that those you characterize as “illegal aliens” are for the most part the undocumented fellow human beings that were brought across that border as children.
Now, I am willing to defend the idea that we stole Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Californis “fair and square” — although given the amount of force involved, it was pretty much an armed robbery of our neighbor. But, I gotta say that the idea of treating the descendents of the neighbors we stole it from as “aliens” requires a bit of jingoism I have difficulty swallowing. And their children — who only want to be what they were raised as — Americans? Seems a bit much.
Rational nations welcome patriotic young people who want to go to school, serve in the military, work hard and stay out of trouble. And, these kids need no “assimilation”. They are already Americans. They just need the paperwork.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months agoa lawyer never talking about our immigration laws… how telling is that????
Mark Hastert
9 months ago“The Mombasa Marxist” …
You know when you’ve won an argument? When the other side lapses into vitriol. They’ve run out of anything intelligent to say..
JR Beillenhouser
9 months agoHey Phil - They are illigals. And borders for every country in the world have been formed due to conflict. Winners get the land, deal with it.
Kent Mueller
9 months agoRay, I’m a conservative. Lose the Mombasa crap. That has no place in the argument. Obama loses with all rational comparisons of fact. No one needs to go where you went. You are detrimental, not helpful.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months agoKent,
Me thinks you may be taking this “civility” mandate to heart…
Did Mr. Harris scare you or what????
Don’t forget, Mitt Romney caused the KC lady to die from cancer and Ryan pushes old ladies off cliffs in your march to civility.
Kent Mueller
9 months agoBuzz. I’m about the least politically correct person around. And I am anything but a moderator. But, I will repeat that talk of “Mombasa Marxist” is just crap that is not helpful to anyone. Stick with the issues. If you want to bring up an issue not on the table, don’t stick a fork in someone’s eye to let them know you want to change the subject.
Kent Mueller
9 months agoGeorge, the Democrats who promote that guy from GST are all wrong. I get that. That is all a big pack of lies. Any way you cut it, they are lies. But, we don’t need to get in the gutter with the liberals. They are living there now. Take the high road and stay on the high road. We can do that because our positions are defensible. They have to get in the gutter because their’s are not defensible.