"I don't think the Arizona law, or laws like it, are the solution," Morton told the newspaper.
The best way to reduce illegal immigration is through a comprehensive federal approach, he said, and not a patchwork of state laws.
Immigrant rights' supporters around the country took to the streets on May 1 to protest Arizona's new immigration law which seeks to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants. Take a look at the massive protests.
The law, which criminalizes being in the state illegally and requires authorities to check suspects for immigration status, is not "good government," Morton said.
In response to Morton's comments, DHS officials said President Obama has ordered the Department of Justice to examine the civil rights and other implications of the law.
"That review will inform the government's actions going forward," DHS spokesman Matt Chandler told Fox News on Friday.
Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said ICE is not obligated to process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities.
"ICE has the legal discretion to accept or not to accept persons delivered to it by non-federal personnel," Napolitano said. "It also has the discretion to deport or not to deport persons delivered to it by any government agents, even its own."
These people are getting paid with our tax dollars and make decisions what law they will enforce and what they wont?
The feds will take the BATF against our own citizens like Waco and Ruby Ridge, but not enforce their own laws against illegal aliens, even with the assistance of the states in finding them.
IMO, this is a power tug: The BEST PLACE for the laws to be enforced against illegal aliens is with local law enforcement as they are more directly responsible to the local community for answering for the techniques they use and any rights they may abuse. The feds have no justification ..... other than their usurpation of law to justify entering a community for enforcement.....which is not their right.
I don't understand all the rise against this law by a state which merely states it will apply within its boundaries that enforcement of law already provisioned by federal law.
If the federal government can pick and chose which laws it upholds and enforces.....and it does........ why is it so much above the law of the people that we are not allowed to do the same?
It is because we have a LAWLESS GOVERNMENT, run by the Chicago Gangs and the spirits they transported into the WH with a foreign born president.
Why should we complain? It is the judgement of God upon a people to provide the righteous with good government and an evil people with bad government!
Nay! some would say. Where have we've been evil? When the pulpits in our country no longer preach about sin and its consequences; when the people of God get more offended with the preaching about sin instead of with the sin; when we're not hearing in the pulpits that OUR unrepentant and willful practice of sin is as the sin of witchcraft and works to give strength to the enemy......... What we have not realized, the corruption and sin we accept as 'normal' in our community, we tolerate in social circles and business, becomes reflected in the corruption in our government.
And it is a corrupt government which refuses to enforce its own laws in place for the protection of our people and selectively uses its laws to enforce its power upon the people and uses the excuse of 'protection' against us.
It is time we realize..... The government is now concerned about protecting its own turf of power and selective enforcement.....protecting itself, and more as though we were the enemy..... and that includes the good people of Arizona.... instead of those who truly are OUR enemy. Our enemy is NOT the government..... but all those who will not follow the constitution of government and the foundation of its law and power.
