Posted on 07/07/2010 5:01:14 AM PDT by suspects
Today, Arizona. Tomorrow . . . Rhode Island?
Attorney General Eric Holder finally filed that long-rumored lawsuit challenging Arizona’s new immigration law. In his opinion, only the federal government has the legal authority to “enforce” (read “completely ignore”) border security. If the Obama administration were convinced that Arizona would treat illegal immigration the same way the feds do, they wouldn’t have bothered to sue.
Unfortunately, Arizonans seem to take the rule of law seriously. And this is a big problem for Team Obama.
Holder is worried that trained and knowledgeable local cops will actually prove that the law is enforceable, blowing his boss’s cover. Remember President Barack Obama’s claim last week that our borders are “just too vast” for us to secure them through enforcement, with fences and border patrols?
The border’s too big. The hole in the Gulf is too deep. The recession is too stubborn. Maybe we should find the president a smaller, easier-to-manage country to govern. You know - send him to the minors for a few years.
Anyway, if enforcing immigration law is a bad thing for local cops to do, as Holder claims, why pick on Arizona? If he’s really upset that the same laws he has taken an oath to enforce might actually get (gulp!) enforced, why isn’t he suing Providence instead of Phoenix? They’ve been doing local immigration enforcement for years now.
As The Boston Globe-Democrat reported yesterday, “From Woonsocket to Westerly, the troopers patrolling the nation’s smallest state are reporting all illegal immigrants they encounter, even on routine stops such as speeding, to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
Even liberal Providence, where politicians long opposed any local enforcement efforts, changed its policy in 2008 after the infamous Marco Riz case.
Riz was the illegal immigrant arrested by Providence cops twice while...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
of course it works.
be nice to take the house back and see him in front of congress.
King George is making an example out of a Colony.
Because the D of C has decided we shall have open borders, no matter who the P is.
Maybe he is afraid his boss would be asked to provide his papers...
...but they won’t prosecute the New Black Panthers....
why aren’t they suing Sanction Cities?
That and he's afraid the unwashed masses will realize that the giant, sucking money-pit we call government is totally WORTHLESS for actually getting anything done.
No, no, no they are just misunderstood frustrated "Yute".
“...but they won’t prosecute the New Black Panthers....”
they are coming out on facebook like gun bangers to recruit new members, with all the ignorance that goes along with them
My question is why is Holder protecting criminals?
The President has violated his oath and must be removed. Not only is he disregarding the laws he has sworn to enforce, he is now exacerbating the action by attempting to destroy those laws.
He is no longer worthy of any respect personally or of his office. He must be removed from the White House. He is the foremost enemy of the Republic
Is that the same federal government that was supposed to have vetted the present illegal alien in the Oval Office???
Because he is one and they stick together.
Because ‘someone’ wound him up and pointed him toward Arizona!
"it", of course, is not in effect, yet, so that is a lot of speculation.
However, you can look at the previous attempts at enforcement in AZ.
Maricopa County's "conspiracy to smuggle humans" law began in 2006. And the Legal Arizona Workers Act was implemented in 2008.
The fact that AZ has/is/will be/might be implementing an additional enforcement implies that the previous attempts were not successful.
Which takes you back to the underlying issue.
Can the US solve its illegal problem by enforcement only?
I don’t know a lot about the Boston Herald, however, I assume that like most northeast newspapers it tends liberal. Thus if this is in the Boston Herald, Obama should be very concerned that he is becoming irrelevant even among liberals.
“He is no longer worthy of any respect personally or of his office. He must be removed from the White House. He is the foremost enemy of the Republic”
No one with power has stepped up to do this. It is up to us. I pray for an honest election, but I’m afraid Barry will have acorn milling out fraudulent votes to ensure that his regime remains.
“it” worked for decades until they stopped enforcing it.
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