Mass. Gov.-Elect Patrick Won’t Allow Troopers To Arrest Illegal Immigrants
Fox is reporting:
- Gov.-elect Deval Patrick said Thursday he will rescind a new agreement between the state and federal authorities that allows State Police troopers to arrest illegal immigrants.
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The change would mark the second split with the Romney administration in two days. On Wednesday, Patrick said he cannot support a plan to remove tolls on the western portion of the Massachusetts Turnpike because he does not believe it is economically feasible.
David Bernstein had this to say of Patrick, and his desire to trample on peoples 1st Amendment rights:
[T]he new policy was opposed by Assistant Attorney General Deval Patrick of the Justice Department, which prosecutes lawsuits under the Fair Housing Act. Patrick ignored HUD’s new guidelines and ordered the Justice Department to bring new lawsuits against community activists. He contended that “Congress intended the [Fair Housing Act] to proscribe any speech if it leads to discrimination prohibited by the FHA.” Two years after HUD acknowledged that prosecuting neighborhood activists for expressing their political viewpoints was unconstitutional and unwise, Patrick continued to defend the Justice Department’s attempted squelching of free speech in a Fair Housing Act case in Fort Worth, Texas. In doing so, he analogized political leaflets to baseball bats, remarking that bats “are perfectly legal too. But if you wield one to keep people out of the neighborhood, we are going to use the bat as evidence of your intent to violate the civil rights laws.” ….Luckily, the federal judge overseeing the Ft. Worth case had a better grasp of the First Amendment than did Patrick and rejected the latter’s theory. The judge held that “leafleting, petitioning, and soliciting against the placement of a group home in one’s neighborhood are actions protected by the First Amendment.
December 22, 2006 - 10:16 PM on December 22nd, 2006
Time to deport him to mexico