Monday, June 25, 2012

“This is presidential activism in an unprecedented scale. The president is issuing decrees as if he was the king."

Is the Federal Government Overstepping Boundaries? DHS Ordered to Stop Assisting Arizona and DOJ Sets Up Hotline to Report Police Officers - Hannity/FOX

Also following the ruling, the Department of Homeland Security released a statement saying that the DHS has been “directed not to respond to the scene of a state or local traffic stop or a similar law enforcement encounter upon the requests from state and local police officers for assistance in enforcing immigration laws unless the individual meets DHS enforcement priorities – is a convicted criminal, has been removed from the US previously and reentered unlawfully or is a recent border crosser.”

Jay Sekulow, from the American Center for Law and Justice, said on Hannity tonight, “This is presidential activism in an unprecedented scale. The president is issuing decrees as if he was the king … The Supreme Court says that one provision is constitutional, White House says well we’re just going to suspend our relationship, enforcement relationship with the state of Arizona, which by the way has the most difficult border control issue of any state in our union.”

Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson, Jr. weighed in on the issue, saying, “Now in essence the federal government has put out a wanted poster … for law enforcement in the state of Arizona...."