Nutter: Congress should quickly pass immigration reform
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Nutter: Congress should quickly pass immigration reform
Jan Ransom
Mayor Nutter just weighed in on the Supreme Court's decision to strike down key parts of Arizona immigration law. Check out what he has to say below:
Monday, June 25, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
STATEMENT BY CONFERENCE PRESIDENT AND PHILADELPHIA MAYOR NUTTER ON THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IN ARIZONA v. UNITED STATES
Philadelphia, June 25, 2012 – Mayor Michael A. Nutter released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Arizona v. United States:
“Today's Supreme Court decision in Arizona v. United States provides yet another reason why Congress should quickly pass comprehensive immigration reform. It demonstrates that we cannot fix our broken immigration system on a state-by-state basis.
“The U.S. Conference of Mayors is pleased that the Court struck down three troubling provisions in the Arizona law. We are concerned, however, that the Supreme Court upheld the so-called “papers please” provision, which will have far-reaching consequences for cities. It will compromise the ability of our local police departments to maintain public safety and jeopardize the relationship which they have carefully built with immigrant communities. It will require police officers to spend more time and resources investigating immigration status, leaving them less time and fewer resources to investigate serious crimes. The challenge for mayors and their police departments is to minimize harm and assure immigrant communities that they will not engage in racial or ethnic profiling.
“In its decision, the Court opened the door on a future challenge to this provision after it takes effect, and we hope that will occur with all due speed.”
The Conference of Mayors joined with 43 cities and counties and the National League of Cities in filing an amicus brief which urged the Court to uphold the lower courts’ injunction of certain portions of the law from taking effect.
Brown nosing.— uandwhosearmy- Idiots— Kaiser Sosa
- What value does Nutter add when it comes to to fixing things that are broken?
Then again, maybe we can get some illegals to collect our property taxes since none of Nutters people seem able to do that work.— PhillyNetTaxPayer - nutter loves to weigh in on national issues what does he know or care about arizona, the most incompetent mayor in philly's sorry history should do something about philly which is in decline in all areas except his annual tax increases— the commodore
- My guess it is preemptive, since Pa is likely to jump on this bandwagon. And if you want to talk about a great way to use up police time and resources, having them deal with checking people for immigration status ranks just above having them write tickets for jaywalking.— gobacktotheburbs
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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com
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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans. E-mail tips to ransomj@phillynews.com
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Sean Collins Walsh is from Bucks County and went to Northwestern University. He joined the Daily News copy desk in 2012 and now covers the Nutter administration. Before that, he interned at papers including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and The Seattle Times. E-mail tips to walshSE@phillynews.com
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