Feature Story
December 4, 2001

ANAHEIM CITY COUNCIL: ACCEPTANCE
OF MEXICAN IDS IS ILLEGAL
Statement by Glenn Spencer
   "Acceptance of Mexican ID cards, is a clear statement by the Anaheim Police Department that it will ignore U.S. immigration laws, to the discriminatory benefit of Mexican nationals in its jurisdiction. This action constitutes "passive resistance" in order to frustrate the constitutional protections of federal supremacy and equal protection of the laws....
   "The proposed policy by the City of Anaheim to passively resist enforcement of federal immigration laws is identical to, and as unlawful as the passive resistance to the school desegregation prohibited in Brown vs. Board of Education and its hundreds of successor decisions in federal and California courts.
 


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