One Judge Can Derail A Mandate

Here's another example of judicial tyranny. In early August, the Bush administration finally appeared to get serious about enforcing immigration law, stepping up a program to notify businesses of employees with potentially false Social Security numbers. This article in the Washington Post indicates that in recent years, the Social Security Administration has found that up to 10 percent of workers have suspect numbers, so it's clearly a problem that needs to be dealt with.

This week, a federal judge halted that initiative.

U.S. District Judge Maxine M. Chesney in San Francisco (an activist judge in San Fran? what a surprise...) ruled that she needed to review a lawsuit from the ACLU (an equally large surprise that the ACLU is working against mainstream Americans) alleging that this initiative would "harm citizens and other legal workers."

What a joke. How in the world is this going to harm legal workers? Yes, I'm sure there will be some legitimate mistakes here and there, but it's not like this notification from the Department of Homeland Security is going to get people instantly tossed into jail or even fired. All it's going to do is require the business to check things out for the people in question. The business then has 90 days to clear up any potential mistake or misunderstanding before penalties would be incurred, so if there is nothing to hide, it shouldn't be a big deal.

The DHS fully expects the initiative to move forward, and given the mandate from the American people, I'd say they need to find a way to make it happen. What's sad is that this one judge -- again, here's the danger with activist judges -- can derail something that the vast majority of America wants.

There's my two cents.