SCOTUS and Florida Anti-Immigrant Law

[Charles Hunter]

I thought there was already a thread on this topic, or at least the Jacksonville version, but I could not find one.

The US Supreme Court upheld a lower court's injunction that prohibits enforcement of Florida's law making it illegal for undocumented immigrants to enter the State of Florida.

From the AlterNet - https://www.alternet.org/trump-court-legal/?share_id=8890723&socialux=facebook

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's injunction preventing Florida from enforcing a law that criminalizes undocumented immigrants for entering the state.

The decision preserves a ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams (a Barack Obama appointee), who found that Florida's statute likely conflicts with the federal government's exclusive authority over immigration policy.
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Williams had previously ruled the legislation was likely unconstitutional, citing federal preemption, and held [Florida Attorney General] Uthmeier in contempt for encouraging local law enforcement to proceed despite the injunction.

The law, passed during a special session in February and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), had designated illegal entry by undocumented individuals as a criminal offense under state jurisdiction.
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With the injunction intact, the law remains unenforceable as lower-court litigation progresses.

I assume the same logic applies to Mr. Diamond's similar Jacksonville law.

[jaxoNOLE]

If the State and local laws were meant as substantive policy and not merely performative expressions of loyalty, they would have been passed during the immigration crisis years of the Biden administration when federal enforcement was non-existent. And they still would have been enjoined. But the alleged problem they address does not exist when you have a pro-enforcement, anti-immigrant federal administration prosecuting mass deportations.

But it sure is a convenient way to distract people from the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars they're flushing down Bay street.

[jaxlongtimer]

The legislature and governor's legislative highlight this session was passing the anti-contrails* law for which their is absolutely no connection with any known problem.  Pure silliness. (At least putting how pigs are treated in the State constitution attempted to address a real concern for some.)  Shows how disconnected the voting public is from voting for serious elected officials who might actually work to make our quality of life better.

* Contrails, short for condensation trails, are the white lines of clouds that jet aircraft sometimes leave behind in the sky. They form when the hot, humid exhaust from an aircraft engine mixes with the cold, dry air at high altitudes, causing water vapor to condense and freeze into ice crystals. While contrails can dissipate quickly in dry air, they can persist and spread in humid conditions, potentially forming artificial cirrus clouds.