{"id":726089,"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.com\/index\/726089","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Mayor: Immigration Bill Is \u2018Unconstitutional\u2019 And\u00a0\u2019Unenforceable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/barbed%2Bwire_1961_19743383_0_0_7039632_300.jpg?w=780\" 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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19743383-ADNFCR\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" \/><\/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":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32T7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}