Federal Judge Tosses Out Suit Against Oklahoma’s Tough New Illegal Immigration Bill
 
It’s nice to read for once about a federal judge who actually upholds a state law when a frivolous and bogus challenge is made on specious constitutional grounds. Oklahoma like many other states, who have grown weary waiting for a criminally negligent federal government to protect our borders and enforce the nation’s immigration laws, has taken matters into their own hands by passing recent legislation.
I have always wondered, how people who are in the country illegally could have standing to challenge such legislation in federal court. Apparently, Judge, James Payne was similarly perplexed. Payne ruled in a strongly worded opinion that,
"These plaintiffs admit their violation of federal law, and then ask this court to allow them to file suit anonymously, so as to avoid detection by the federal law enforcement,” Payne wrote. "These illegal alien plaintiffs seek nothing more than to use this court as a vehicle for their continued unlawful presence in this country. To allow these plaintiffs to do so would make this court an abettor of iniquity and this court finds that simply unpalatable.”
Watch for pressure to continue to mount for punitive federal measures against municipalities that have declared themselves as “sanctuary cities” in open defiance of federal immigration law. Withholding of federal funds to such cities would be long overdue and completely justified.
 
 
Beacon Street Journal
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
By Johnny K