Stay in your lane: Florida AG fires next volley against judge halting state immigration law

FIRST ON FOX: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier fired backmost Wednesday astatine an Obama-appointed Miami national justice who attempted to halt enforcement of a authorities migration law.

Uthmeier told Fox News Digital helium submitted a question to the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit to enactment a question to halt Florida’s illegal migration law.

"As the precocious Justice Scalia erstwhile said, ‘If securing its territory successful this manner is not wrong the powerfulness of [Florida], we should cease referring to it arsenic a sovereign state,'" Uthmeier said. "My bureau volition combat this judge’s bid to the apical if we indispensable and proceed being the Trump administration's champion spouse successful the ngo to region each amerciable alien and support our authorities and nation’s sovereignty."

Uthmeier had primitively told Judge Kathleen Williams helium could not archer his instrumentality enforcement officers not to enforce the state’s caller instrumentality making it a misdemeanor for amerciable immigrants to participate Florida to debar the feds.

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Immigrant rights protesters and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier  (Getty)

Williams ruled the instrumentality violated the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, portion Uthmeier countered helium couldn’t bid the Florida Highway Patrol to halt immoderate enforcement due to the fact that it wasn't enactment to the order.

"Florida cops don't request my support to bash their jobs. And the justice can’t bid instrumentality enforcement officers to basal down erstwhile they aren’t adjacent parties to the case," Uthmeier told Fox News Digital exclusively Wednesday.

"This is Law 101. She doesn’t person jurisdiction. We anticipation the appellate tribunal volition hole the problems the little tribunal created and reaffirm that, arsenic ‘the slightest unsafe branch,’ territory tribunal judges indispensable enactment successful their law lane."

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In his filing, Uthmeier argued Florida did "nothing much … [but] to assistance the United States successful curbing amerciable migration wrong the state’s borders" and didn’t instrumentality immoderate actions that would interruption the Constitution.

"SB 4-C (the law) criminalizes the entry into Florida of those who person illegally entered the United States. That instrumentality tracks national instrumentality to a tee."

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"Florida instrumentality defines an ‘unauthorized alien’ arsenic ‘a idiosyncratic who is unlawfully contiguous successful the United States according to the presumption of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.'

"I bash not judge an AG should beryllium held successful contempt for respecting the regularisation of instrumentality and due separation of powers. The ACLU is dormant acceptable connected obstructing President Donald Trump’s efforts to detain and deport illegals, and we are going to combat back. We volition vigorously support our laws and beforehand President Trump’s docket on illegal immigration."