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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that a 2008 raid of a local tax preparer's office aimed at building identity-theft cases against hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants violated their Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
The 4-3 ruling was the latest and most devastating legal blow against Operation Numbers Game, an investigation launched by Weld County Sheriff John Cooke and District Attorney Ken Buck that aimed to use tax returns to identify and prosecute illegal immigrants.
“I'm disappointed. We have 1,338 people whose identities are being used, and we can't even notify them they are the victims of identify theft,” Weld District Attorney Ken Buck said Monday before a press conference on the matter. “We had hoped to make an impact on identify theft in Weld, and I think that won't happen at this point, and it's a serious problem in Weld County.”
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by Ferris.Bueller.II
Rights are not given by courts, legislatures or you or I. Rights are inherent in all people and one does not have to be a citizen of the United States in order to enjoy the natural rights belonging to all people. The Fourth Amendment states:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
It makes no distinction of citizenship nor nationality but refers to the people. If these rights do not belong to all people across the world and hold a universal self evidence, than they mean nothing at all.
Originally posted by Ferris.Bueller.II
#1: Multiple crimes happened in this case; including illegal immigration and personal identity theft to 1,338 innocent individuals. The District Attorney's office knows the identities of the victims of the stolen identities, but cannot notify them of this because of this CO Supreme Court ruling. How would you feel if someone stole something of yours as personal as your identity, but the courts told the law they cannot tell you because the privacy of the thief would be violated?
#2: These illegals were filing federal taxes to get money back they never paid in, not to pay taxes.
Originally posted by lpowell0627
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Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by Ferris.Bueller.II
While I applaud that you would like all people across the world to enjoy the freedoms that the United States has created in order to protect its citizens, you do realize that when one becomes a citizen of the US, you take an oath to uphold our constitution, abide by our laws, and once done you become protected under our constituion.
It is a fallacious argument to insist the United States "created" freedoms. Before there was a Constitution for the United States, there was an Articles of Condederation which was the first Constitution the U.S. and prior to that there was a Declaration of Independence. These documents acknowledged the freedom that all ready existed and your arguments of freedom only existing because governments grant it, is a tyrants argument, no matter how benevolent that tyrant may seem. Rights granted by government are rights that can be taken away. Inalienable rights can not be taken away!
Originally posted by zachi
Does this mean that Illegal aliens are eligable for Social Secrity Its't that system already bankrupt?