Posted on 04/25/2010 11:16:35 AM PDT by opentalk
Arizona fired two clear shots over the bow of the dinghy bowbama (h/t LC) during its 2010 legislative session: expanding state enforcement of its own and federal immigration laws, and requiring constitutional eligibility determinations as a condition of ballot access in 2012.
Obama is surely sweating over both of these actions, but can only show his anger at the illegal immigration action. He is caught flat-footed on the eligibility requirement in his attempt to gain a second term.
Obama is fuming. How dare Arizona pass a bill giving its law enforcement officers authority to deal with the invasion of illegal immigrants? While he vows to review its ‘consistency with federal law’ , Obama is caught once again letting the Nation’s defenses down, and this provides a perfect opportunity for the Several States and Patriots to act in self-defense.
The self-defense tool? The powers retained to the states under the Tenth Amendment.
Enforcing Immigration Laws
Arizona currently has nearly a half million illegal immigrants living within its borders, and border violence has increasingly taken its toll on Arizonans. While open-borders advocates and illegal immigration advocates claim the bill will increase racial profiling, State Senator Russell Pearce (R-Mesa) simply responds that “illegal is not a race.” The bill does contain strict guidance that does not permit racial profiling.
Senate Bill 1070, the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” was signed into law on April 23, 2010. The Governor cited Arizona’s patience with the federal government in seeking its increased enforcement and indicated the State had to act.
From Governor Janet Brewer (R)
I believe Arizona, like America is governed by laws. Good laws … well-intentioned laws … laws that confer respect and that demand respect in return. In his third State of the Union address, President Theodore Roosevelt said, “No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”
...By the way, the Governor’s predecessor, Janet Napolitano, vetoed two similar bills. Now I understand why Obama chose her as head of Homeland Security: Napolitano is pro-illegal immigration and open borders, apparently, regardless of how many terrorists slip over the border with the others. She is violating federal law by ignoring the problem.
Proof of Constitutional Eligibility as a Condition for Ballot Access
The media are panicking over Arizona’s bill to require a presidential candidate to prove his constitutional eligibility as a condition for being on the state’s ballot. Lame Cherry calls this the “Arizona Filibuster“, where one state stops the other 49 from voting on Obama.
According to this report,
Arizona’s measure would require U.S. presidential candidates to submit documents to the secretary of state proving they meet the constitutional requirements to be president. The secretary of state could then decide to keep a candidate off the Arizona ballot if he or she had reasonable cause to believe the candidate was ineligible.
...Arizona and the Articles of Freedom
Arizona’s recent actions on immigration and eligibility are excellent strategic moves for a state interested in protecting itself from invasion: both from illegal immigrants and from an illegal occupant of the White House. The State has acted using its own authority under the Tenth Amendment to exercise inherent powers reserved to it.
... Thank you, Arizona.
Arizona just made my vacation list.
Jan Brewer just put herself back in the race. If that 1 cent sales tax fails, which it will...this will offset it.
“I personally believe he was born in Hawaii, but there is some other fact they are hiding. What could it be?”
That’s pretty much where I come down too. Probably born in Hawaii. Probably something very embarrassing down that road.
McCain has been soft on both issues.
good retort to the Dems and Obama ,Just say Obama is Targeting Arizona because they passed a Law that says he Must Produce his Birth Certificate before he can get on the Ballot in 2012. That is what the Democrats would do but they have guts the republicans are cowards
Ping!
“Arizona just made my vacation list.”
Wonderful! I’m planning a vacation to the South this year, and I may drive just so I can spend some time in Arizona on the way, I’ve always wanted to. My sister was born there and my folks lived there for several years during ww2.
It is truly amazing. Up until late last month I believed Obama was born in Hawaii, too.
Then James Orengo, Kenya’s Minister of Lands, stood up in Kenya’s national assembly and declared that Obama wasn’t a native of America but had been born in Kenya.
No one in Hawaii has ever come forward to claim to have attended Obama’s birth nor has any hospital claimed to be his birthplace.
Only in Kenya are there people who claim to have witnessed his birth and is there a hospital that claims to have been his birthplace.
One more interesting fact is that Hawaii allows people to keep an original foreign birth certificate in Department of Health vaults as a vital record of birth. (Butterdezillion of FR was sent the forms by Janice Okubo, DOH).
There may be many reasons why Barak Hussein Obama II doesn’t want his BC made public. The most obvious is that he possibly isn’t eligible to be President of the United States!
The hospital placing a notice of his birth in the local paper makes me think he was born in Hawaii. It’s difficult to place new data in newspaper archives forty years after the fact. The year he was born they probably didn’t think about the possibility of his becoming president some day.
Perhaps, putting the announcement in the paper was a "how to" or a "tip" within certain communities or groups back then. Say for instance, people wanting to get in state tuition for state colleges. There are all sorts of "tips" to aid people in ways to qualify for residency even though they don't really qualify.
I don't know, just thinking.
I think they are almost automatic. I have four kids and I think I just signed off that it was OK for local papers to print the birth info when I did the paperwork at the hospital.
Research has proved that the address in Hawaii’s papers was that of Stanley Ann’s parents. Notice that the baby’s name is not used nor is a birthplace given. A hospital did not have any role in placing those announcements.
Rasmussen poll shows 60% of Americans Agree With Arizona Bill… Only 31% Agree With Radicals & Obama
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