He might even help save the AZ border environment (cough):
Posted on 04/25/2010 9:44:10 AM PDT by opentalk
It didn’t take long for Obama to use the race card and blame Americans for his own failures, this time Arizona for enforcing immigration law to protect its people and our nation’s borders.
Governor Brewer:
"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act. but decades of inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation.”
This is a perfectly legitimate action by state government that Obama called “misguided” as he instructed the ‘justice’ department to “see if its legal”. Obama said that the federal government should reform immigration at the national level–or “leave the door open to irresponsibility of others”.
The Coward in Chief continues:
that includes, for example, the recent efforts in Arizona, which threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and their communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe”
Is permitting the invasion of the United States through illegal immigration truly a part of ‘basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans’? So open borders and illegal immigration is ‘fairness’? And what does Obama know about anything that ‘Americans cherish’?
Obama is engaging in racial profiling himself, accusing anyone who acts to stop illegal immigration as being unfair and essentially racist.
The Racist-in-Chief will not be able to push this one down our throats. We already have his number.
The Left Starts Spinning
There was a time when it was politically incorrect to refer to an illegal immigrant as just that. Remember having to call illegal immigrants ‘undocumented workers’?
The left is giving little ground as Peter Spiro, a Temple University law professor, says that the new law “sends a clear message that Arizona is unfriendly to undocumented aliens”. Hello? What state is friendly to illegal immigrants? Does this ‘law’ professor know the ‘law’?
Cities have defied the Feds with Sanctuary City laws. Cities have refused to deport non-documented students.
Why is that not ever mentioned? And why is that type of civil disobedience allowed? (I know why. It is a rhetorical question.)
I agree - excellent point.
This is a power struggle that the Feds will LOSE. Throw the bums out!
“I was just watching the FOX Chris Wallace Sunday morning show. They covered the new Arizona law and blabbed about it being “unconstitutional”
WRONG, as usual.
Federal Immigration and Nationality Act Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii) State and local law enforcement officials have the general power to investigate and arrest violators of federal immigration statutes without prior INS knowledge or approval, as long as they are authorized to do so by state law. There is no extant federal limitation on this authority.
The 1996 immigration control legislation passed by Congress was intended to encourage states and local agencies to participate in the process of enforcing federal immigration laws. Immigration officers and local law enforcement officers may detain an individual for a brief warrantless interrogation where circumstances create a reasonable suspicion that the individual is illegally present in the U.S. Specific facts constituting a reasonable suspicion include evasive, nervous, or erratic behavior; dress or speech indicating foreign citizenship; and presence in an area known to contain a concentration of illegal aliens.
He might even help save the AZ border environment (cough):
...State of AZ #2 in the world in kidnappings.
Fear now a way of life in border towns thread. Fear in the schools.
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