[Peace-discuss] Illinois Governor Rauner versus Illinois Law Dean Amar

Mon Nov 6 18:51:14 UTC 2017

I worked pro bono publico with the Center for Constitutional Rights on these Sanctuary Cases as their designated Expert on International Law along with Professor Richard Falk who was their other designated Expert on International Law to prevent their persecution by Reagan. Meanwhile Amar's Good Buddy Killer Koh was working for Reagan on international law matters. The  Smell Of Death Surrounds Amar! FAB.

The Sanctuary Trials[edit<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sanctuary_movement&action=edit&section=5>]
The Immigration and Naturalization Service<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Naturalization_Service> Agency (INS) decided to crack down on movement members by the mid-1980s, which culminated in a series of high-profile trials in Texas and Arizona.
In 1985, the INS launched a ten-month investigation dubbed Operation Sojourner, sending paid informants into sanctuary communities to gain the trust of members, find information and report back to federal officials. In 1985, the government initiated criminal prosecutions against two activists in the Rio Grande Valley-Catholic layman Jack Elder and Methodist Stacey Merkt, both of whom provided sanctuary to Central Americans at Casa Oscar Romero in Brownsville, Texas.[15]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_movement#cite_note-15>
In 1986, in the more publicized of the two cases, the Justice Department indicted sixteen U.S. and Mexican religious on 71 counts of conspiracy and encouraging and aiding "illegal aliens to enter the United States by shielding, harboring and transporting them." This group of indictees included Father Quiñones from Our Lady Church in Nogales, Catholic Reverend Anthony Clark, Jim Corbett, John Fife, Sister Darlene Nicgorski, and a handful of other Sanctuary members and lay religious from participating churches.
In what became known as "The Sanctuary Trials," the defendants called upon their rights protected under both the U.S. constitution and international law. They employed First Amendment free exercise claims, arguing they were simply living out their faith by providing refuge to their fellow brethren in need; this was the call of the Gospel and an exercise of their religion. As Sister Nicgorski stated on the day of her arraignment, "If I am guilty of anything, I am guilty of the gospel." Defendants referenced passages in the Old and New Testaments, such as Leviticus 19:34 ("The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself) and the story of Exodus ("What answer is there for the envoys of the nation? This: that the Lord has fixed Zion in her place, and the afflicted among God's people shall take refuge there" [Isaiah 14:32]).
The defense also called upon international law to defend their actions. They argued that the U.S. administration's policy towards Central Americans violated the 1980 Refugee Act<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee_Act>, a U.S. law enacted under Carter that reflected international norms set down in the 1951 U.N. Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.
The Sanctuary Trials spurred public outcry from many sympathetic to the movement. Demonstrations at INS facilities were held in San Francisco<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco>, Chicago<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago>, Milwaukee<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee>, Cincinnati<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati>, Philadelphia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia>, New York City<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City>, and Tucson<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson>, among other places.
Though the court did find eight movement members guilty on alien smuggling charges, most received suspended sentences or underwent short house arrests. Supported by the Center for Constitutional Rights<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Constitutional_Rights>, a broad coalition of eight religious organizations also eventually brought suit against the U.S. Attorney General and head of the INS. Plaintiffs alleged, among other claims, that defendants violated domestic and international laws and movement members' First Amendment rights of free exercise. While the courts ruled in this case, American Baptist Churches vs. Thurnburgh, that international law did not apply and the government did not violate Sanctuary members' First Amendment rights, the movement won the public's sympathies and the government eventually granted asylum status to many of the refugees involved in the trial.
Furthermore, many Congressional Democrats took up the cause of the Central American refugees-due in large part to the lobbying and publicity efforts of Sanctuary members. In 1990, the House and Senate approved a bill granting temporary protected status (TPS) to Central Americans in need of safe haven, but not until the 1997 Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Adjustment_and_Central_American_Relief_Act> did Congress allow fleeing Central Americans to apply for permanent residence.[16]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_movement#cite_note-16>

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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Subject: RE: Illinois Governor Rauner versus Illinois Law Dean Amar

According to my files, I became pro bono publico Counsel to the Sanctuary Movement no later than early 1985--perhaps sooner. Amar was 22 years old. And yet a generation later Amar launched a Gratuitous Attack on the Sanctuary Movement that gets circulated nationwide to a legal audience of lawyers, law professors, judges, etc, which is how I got it, then puts it on the College of Law blog/web for the entire University of Illinois College of Law Community. Pure Evil. Just like his promotion of Killer Koh here. Pure Evil. Déjà vu all over again by Amar in Pure Evil. Fab.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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Subject: RE: Illinois Governor Rauner versus Illinois Law Dean Amar

So this is far worse than I had originally anticipated with you. Instead of just teaching his Gratuitous  Attack on the Sanctuary Movement to his  own law students, Dean Amar is teaching his Gratuitous Attack on the Sanctuary Movement to the entire University of Illinois College of Law Community, all of whom will go on to become lawyers, judges, politicians, legislators  and professors  etc. The Power of Evil by a Law Dean. Just like Amar's  Killer Koh. Pure Evil. Déjà vu all over again. Fab.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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Subject: RE: Illinois Governor Rauner versus Illinois Law Dean Amar

Dean Amar has posted his attack upon the Sanctuary Movement on the College of Law's blog/web page for all of our students to read. That just shows you the Power For Evil that a Law Dean has. Of course we learned that last year when Dean Amar went all out to promote Killer Koh as a Role Model in  Excellence for Lawyers in Government Service. Fab.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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Subject: Illinois Governor Rauner versus Illinois Law Dean Amar

I am no fan of Governor Rauner. But to his great and everlasting credit, Governor Rauner recently signed legislation that turned the entire State of Illinois into a Sanctuary State. Soon thereafter Illinois Law  Dean Amar of the University of Illinois College of Law-the Flagship State Law School on the Flagship Campus of the University of Illinois where Governor Rauner sits on the Board of Trustees as an Ex Officio Member- publicly came out against the Sanctuary Movement. Republican Governor Rauner courageously aligned himself and the State of Illinois with the Sanctuary Movement against Trump. Illinois Law Dean Amar cravenly aligned himself with Trump against the Sanctuary Movement and Governor Rauner and the State of Illinois and 11 Million Undocumented Migrants and Their Families and 800,000 DACA Kids and 50,000 Haitian Refugees and Tens of Thousands of  Central American Refugees still in this country from the Original Sanctuary Movement and Their Families. And to the best of my knowledge, and I stand subject to correction, Illinois Law Dean Amar is the first and so far the only Law Dean in the country to publicly  come out against the Sanctuary Movement and 11 Million Undocumented Migrants and Their Families, and 800,000 DACA Kids and 50,000 Haitian Refugees and Tens of Thousands of   Central American refugees still in this country from the Original Sanctuary Movement whom Illinois Governor Rauner had the courage and  common sense and decency and compassion and principles and integrity  to protect  from Trump by turning the entire State of Illinois into a Sanctuary State for them all.
Professor Francis A. Boyle
University of Illinois College of Law
Board of Directors, Amnesty International USA (1988-1992)

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
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Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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