{"id":21235,"date":"2019-03-13T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21235"},"modified":"2019-03-13T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:03:41","slug":"the-aclus-radical-anti-ice-campaign-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/03\/13\/the-aclus-radical-anti-ice-campaign-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The ACLU\u2019s Radical Anti-ICE Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2018\/08\/15\/aclu-loses-grip-on-reality-and-the-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Civil Liberties Union<\/a> (ACLU) has taken its campaign of endless harassment against the Department of Homeland Security to a whole new level of insanity. What\u2019s the ACLU throwing a <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2018\/04\/02\/hey-aclu-stop-throwing-greyhound-under-the-bus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">hissy-fit<\/a> about this time? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/03\/13\/ice-license-plates-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Tech Crunch<\/a><\/em>, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and received documents indicating that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) purchased access to a commercial database that allows policing agencies to flag license plates and receive an alert when those plates are caught on traffic cameras. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not clear why this revelation required a FOIA action,\nsince federal agencies are required by law to publish a Privacy Impact\nAssessment (PIA) any time they begin using a new data source. And the <em>Tech Crunch<\/em> piece specifically notes\nthat ICE did, in fact, publish several PIA\u2019s during its negotiations with the\ndatabase service provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, according to the ACLU, ICE\u2019s \u201cexploitation\u201d of\nlicense plate information raises \u201cprivacy concerns\u201d and \u201cviolates immigration\nsanctuary laws.\u201d The ACLU also makes the absurd assertion that ICE is\nattempting to circumvent proper \u201coversight\u201d when it calls police departments\nand asks them for \u201clocally collected driver location data.\u201d (Funny, we thought\nthat was called <em>investigation<\/em> \u2013 and\nit\u2019s exactly what federal law enforcement agents are paid to do.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there are two key problems with the ACLU\u2019s legal\nanalysis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>As the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has noted in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/us-6th-circuit\/1031532.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">U.S. v. Ellison<\/a><\/em>, every court that has addressed the issue has found that motorists have no reasonable expectation of privacy in their license plate numbers. And computer checks of vehicle registration information do not violate the Fourth Amendment, or any other prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Immigration sanctuary laws are illegal. As the Supreme Court has opined in both <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/505\/88\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gade v. National Solid Wastes Management Assn.<\/a><\/em> and <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/530\/363\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council<\/a><\/em>, states are not permitted to frustrate a legitimate Congressional objective by attempting to legislate in a field that is regulated exclusively by the federal government. In <em><a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/567\/387\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Arizona v. United States<\/a><\/em>, the Supreme Court unequivocally stated that \u201calien registration, [is]a field in which Congress has left no room for States to regulate.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Translated into plain English, that means the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>There is absolutely no prohibition on federal\nlaw enforcement agencies, including ICE, using license plate information to\nfind law-breakers. And it does not matter whether that license plate\ninformation is gathered through personal observation, by calls to local police\ndepartments, or via roadway surveillance cameras.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Local law enforcement agencies that refuse to\ncooperate with ICE may well be subject to prosecution on federal charges of\nobstructing justice.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the ACLU isn\u2019t remotely interested in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2018\/03\/23\/aclu-making-goes-along\/\" target=\"_blank\">what the law actually says<\/a>. Rather, the organization is interested in promoting its bogus narrative that <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2017\/08\/22\/schooling-aclu-immigration-enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">ICE<\/a> is \u201can immoral and rogue agency.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does not appear that the ACLU has filed any lawsuits in connection with ICE\u2019s use of license plate data. However, when it inevitably does, its <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2018\/04\/25\/aclu-defends-actual-lawbreakers-stoking-fear-fantasy-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\">preposterous legal arguments<\/a> are tailor made to prove alluring to the activist judges on the <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2018\/12\/14\/why-the-migrant-caravan-is-california-dreamin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals<\/a> \u2013 which has an established history of creating \u201cimmigrants\u2019 rights\u201d out of jurisprudential smoke and fog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has taken its campaign of endless harassment against the Department of Homeland Security to a whole new level of insanity. What\u2019s the ACLU throwing a hissy-fit about this time? According to Tech Crunch, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and received documents indicating that U.S.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/03\/13\/the-aclus-radical-anti-ice-campaign-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":17240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[1894,1524],"yst_prominent_words":[2029,4919,4915,2249,2390,2855,1943,1918,2813,2030,2159,2852,4920,4916,4917,4921,4918,3687,2242,4922],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21236,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions\/21236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21235"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}