Sentence examples for cannot criminalize from inspiring English sources

"We cannot criminalize people who are working, people who are contributing to our economy and contributing to the nation," Los Angeles's mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, told the crowd.

If we cannot criminalize that behavior, we will have little hope of halting this disgusting and morally abhorrent activity.

In a victory for those who support a humane immigration policy, the Court overturned three sections of SB 1070: Arizona cannot criminalize unlawful presence in the United States, or working without papers; and the decision to arrest someone for unlawful presence in the U.S. is solely a federal issue.

"All these circumstances make grand juries the ideal vehicle for FBI fishing expeditions into lawful political activity that the government doesn't like but, due to pesky constitutional issues, cannot outright criminalize," Kade told me.

Others, however, ground this limit in a non-instrumental side-constraint on the aim of harm-prevention: a purely instrumentalist theory cannot justify criminalizing only culpable conduct; we must instead appeal to a non-instrumentalist demand of justice, that those who lack fault should not be liable to criminal punishment (see Hart 1968: 17 24, 28 53).

If so, we might still be able to preserve some form of negative Legal Moralism, and hold that conduct that is not immoral cannot properly be criminalized; but we would need to look elsewhere for positive reasons for criminalization.

You cannot legalize immigrants while criminalizing the immigrant community.

As teachers they are outraged because "we cannot build safe, creative, nurturing schools and criminalize our children at the same time".

We cannot then turn a blind eye and criminalize migrants when our foreign policies have caused the economic instability, poverty, and violence in their nations of origin leading them to migrate to this country in search of a better life.

"That is why we decided to make this a collective case so that we cannot be so easily picked out and criminalized".

That is, drug courts attempt to treat drug use as a health issue, but they cannot because they are required to enforce laws criminalizing drug use -- and therefore punishment trumps treatment every time.