{"id":546876,"date":"2010-04-28T23:01:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T03:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/phoenix-mayor-immigration-bill-is-unconstitutional-and-unenforceable\/"},"modified":"2010-04-28T23:01:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T03:01:05","slug":"phoenix-mayor-immigration-bill-is-%e2%80%98unconstitutional%e2%80%99-and%c2%a0%e2%80%99unenforceable%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546876","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mayor: Immigration Bill Is \u2018Unconstitutional\u2019 And\u00a0\u2019Unenforceable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/barbed+wire_1961_19743383_0_0_7039632_300.jpg\" alt=\"Phoenix mayor: Immigration bill is 'unconstitutional' and 'unenforceable'\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Just a few days after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a historically aggressive immigration bill, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon indicated that the city may soon file a lawsuit challenging the legislation on constitutional grounds. <\/p>\n<p>Gordon told <i>Fox News<\/i> the bill is not only unconstitutional, but also makes the state less safe, as police would be forced to spend an exorbitant amount of time focusing on this &quot;unenforceable&quot; law. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It tramples civil rights,&quot; Gordon told the news source. &quot;Now everyone has to show and prove that they&#8217;re a legal resident or citizen.&quot; He also warned that the new law may create &quot;a division within the state that could lead to violence.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix mayor also attacked the author of the bill, state Senator Russell Pearce, by comparing him to late Alabama Governor George Wallace, a well-known segregationist leader in the 1960s, <i>KTAR.com<\/i> reports. He said that Pearce is more concerned with making headlines than battling the real problems that face Arizona, such as violent crime and the drug trade. <\/p>\n<p>Gordon indicated that he will ask the Phoenix City Council later this week to join him in his fight against the law. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19743383-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19743383\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a historically aggressive immigration bill, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon indicated that the city may soon file a lawsuit challenging the legislation on constitutional grounds. Gordon told Fox News the bill is not only unconstitutional, but also makes the state less safe, as police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}