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To: Cogito who wrote (140580)	7/10/2010 6:24:18 AM
From: Paul Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541921

I think Federal laws should be enforced (or eliminated using the system in place to change laws if they are no longer appropriate). You have probably heard complaints about laws existing that are not enforced. When guns are a hot political issue, somebody will seek more gun laws or regulations and somebody else will point out that there are lots of existing laws or regulations about guns that already do the same things and they just aren't being enforced. The consistently of enforcement part sounds like a good idea but that never happens. Jurisdiction for prosecution - I might be wrong (not a lawyer) but would assume for Federal laws that it would be federal jurisdiction and when a person has broken a Federal law and been captured, they are turned over to the feds for prosecution or whatever happens next.

To: Cogito who wrote (140580)	7/10/2010 6:59:07 AM
From: Paul Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541921

Anybody here live in Rhode Island? Seems like a nice place. ------------------------ United States v. Arizona — How 'Bout United States v. Rhode Island? Well whaddya know? It turns out that Rhode Island has long been carrying out the procedures at issue in the Arizona immigration statute: As a matter of routine, RI state police check immigration status at traffic stops whenever there is reasonable suspicion to do so, and they report all illegals to the feds for deportation. Besides the usual profiling blather, critics have trotted out the now familiar saw that such procedures hamstring police because they make immigrants afraid to cooperate. But it turns out that it’s the Rhode Island police who insist on enforcing the law. As Cornell law prof William Jacobson details at Legal Insurrection, Colonel Brendan P. Doherty, the state police commander, “refuses to hide from the issue,” explaining, ”I would feel that I’m derelict in my duties to look the other way.” If, as President Obama and Attorney General Holder claim, there is a federal preemption issue, why hasn’t the administration sued Rhode Island already? After all, Rhode Island is actually enforcing these procedures, while the Arizona law hasn’t even gone into effect yet.