Comments about ‘In our opinion: Immigration ruling reveals the need for federal regulation’

"Both opinions lead to the same place. Congress and the president have a duty to fix immigration laws..."

False, Deseret News. Scalia distinctly identified NOT the law itself, but rather Obama's abject refusal to ENFORCE the law, as the problem.

There is nothing "out of sync" about the laws, relative to reality -- the laws are entirely just and fair. They require only a smidgen of integrity on the part of government to enforce them.

The fact remains that Congress has utterly failed. The Administration has vigorously enforced the law, and much more than the Bush Administration. Now the Obama administration has had enough of the inequities of the laws and the failure of Congress to act. A couple of years ago, it looked like a deal was made, and but then the Republicans took their own bill off the table. Pure mean-spirited partisan politics and nothing else. Country comes last for them.

I generally agree with this editorial. We desperately need a comprehensive federal solution - one that both gets control of our border and treats those here with realism and compassion.

But the concept that the lack of enforcement has been within the Obama Administration is palpably not true. We likely have about 10 million or so folks here illegally. That did not happen in just three years.

No problem saying this administration could do more. But let's be realistic and acknowledge that prior administrations (both Republican and Democratic) have been lax on border enforcement.

If we want to have a realistic national discussion, we must start with being realistic about our own party's blame. On this issue, there is plenty to go around.

The problem with immigration is enforcement or the lack thereof. The law is not broken enforcement is. Both sides of the aisle is to blame. Dems are looking for more votes and rep.are looking for cheap labor. Obama in his acting King position waving the amnesty wand is just a carrot for future waves of illegal. And this ruling by the Supremes is a slap in the face of AZ and the rest of AMerica who want this problem fixed. Enforcement first. Existing lawe are just fine.

As I read the editorial, I also reflected upon the stance of the Deseret News (and its affiliates), who fully support illegal immigration--to their endorsement of creating an active program to funnel additional workers from Northern Mexico.

Though the editors continue to hide behind the curtain of "compassion," there seems to be total disregard for those legal citizens who continue to lose their jobs to increasing numbers of illegal immigrants.

I truly wonder how their opinion would have looked had illegals been replacing English-speaking journalists over the past ten years.

Just a few months ago immigration was touted as a state issue and that allowed them to make (racist) laws.

Now all of a sudden it's a federal issue?

When will repubs make up their minds? They seriously have flip flopped on EVERYTHING.

From the individual mandate on health insurance (Heritage Foundation created it and Orrin Hatch supported it) and now all of a sudden it's unconstitutional?

Immigration was a state issue... Now all of a sudden it's a federal issue?

I'm not voting GOP because they have no standards, backbone, and I have no clue what they represent anymore (other than big oil, ag, defense, supporting banks too big to fail, and handouts for the rich)

We already have Federal Laws. We don't have officials with the backbone to enforce them. Pres. Eisenhower addressed this with Operation W =et Back(spelled like this due to DNews censor progrm) We need to man up and do this again. These people are criminals no matter how needy they seem or what excuses are made.

“…the careful framework Congress adopted," Kennedy wrote. How can Kennedy say there is a careful framework when the court laments the problems of illegal immigration? It is contradictory!

Esquire,
Even the most ardent BO apologist as yourself cannot truthfully say BO has vigorously enforced immigration laws when he exempted an entire segment of the illegal population from the effects of the law and when he directs workplace audits to fine companies employing illegals (which is great), but fails to deport the illegals found working there.

And you talk of a failure to act? Why did not BO and the all-loving, benevolent, omniscient, wonderful, can-do-no-wrong dems do it when they had both houses of congress? Oh, that’s right, they were too busy forcing an unpopular health care bill down our throats.

Maverick,
I don’t know where you get the accusation for your typical rant; you must be watching MSNBC to be so far off-base. You wouldn’t vote for the GOP if God himself told you to (not that He would tell anyone how to vote)

The DN editorializes for "federal solutions" because they KNOW thats the least likely to ever happen.

Its been 27 yrs. since Reagan gave the FIRST amnesty and the LEGAL Americans were told that beginning THEN (1986)the feds would exercise their "due diligence".

There's NOTHING at all wrong with present immigration laws (besides the fact that they're so easy to break)the feds just need to do their job or at least let the states do it for them.
BTW - WHY NOT take some of the funds that ICE gets and allocate it to the border states to do the job the feds won't?

Most of the time, when advocates for illegal immigration say we need to "fix" the laws, what they're REALLY saying is "we need to not have borders at all"!

HOPEFULLY Pres. Romney can/will undo some of the damage Obama has done to immigration enforcement.

@ lost in DC, check the numbers. Enforcement went way up under Obama. I have contacts on the enforcement side in DOJ, and you would truly be surprised. The worst for authentic enforcement was the Bush Administration. Just because a problem exists now (though it is better than it was), does not mean little or nothing has been done.

The ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court - the right for law enforcement to ask for proof of citizenship. It is Barack Obama who then decided to NOT enforce the law - telling dept of home land security to IGNORE the majority of arrests made by Arizona law enforcement. This sort of lawlessness has NEVER happened by a sitting US president - a president who could care less about the US constitution or rule of law. So it doesn't matter what the Supreme Court rules - OBama just ignores the ruling. There is only two ways to solve this - Impeach Obama and have congress press for his removal or simply vote this traitor out of office in November. A democrat controlled senate will never vote to impeach - for any reason - so the only answer is for the people of this country to throw this scallywag out!!