Posted on 06/17/2010 4:54:39 PM PDT by curth
PHOENIX – Governor Jan Brewer said she was stunned and angered to learn during an Ecuadorean television interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the Obama Administration had decided to sue Arizona over its recently passed anti-illegal immigration law, SB1070.
Video of the interview can be seen at Governor Brewer’s Arizona Border Security Information website: www.azgovernor.gov/AZBorderSecurity.asp Secretary Clinton announced during the interview on June 8th that President Obama has directed the U.S. Justice Department to “bring a lawsuit against the Arizona law.”
“This is no way to treat the people of Arizona,” said Governor Brewer. “To learn of this lawsuit through an Ecuadorean interview with the Secretary of State is just outrageous. If our own government intends to sue our state to prevent illegal immigration enforcement, the least it can do is inform us before it informs the citizens of another nation.”
Governor Brewer said, “I just visited with the President in the Oval Office about our differences over immigration policy, and the one firm understanding we had was that within two weeks he would provide details of his commitment to deploy National Guard troops to the border. While I am grateful that communications have taken place about a possible visit by Administration staff before the end of the month, there is not yet a confirmed date. More importantly, no information about additional troop and border security enhancements has been provided by the Obama Administration to the citizens of Arizona.”
Governor Brewer recently announced the creation of a legal defense fund for private contributions in defense of Arizona’s illegal immigration enforcement measures – www.keepazsafe.com.
Over $22,000 in contributions have been made to the border legal defense fund since its announcement yesterday evening. Over $26,000 had previously been sent unsolicited to the Governor for legal defense of Arizona, for an approximate total of $48,000 in the fund.
There are many!!
When it comes to immigration law enforcement and border security, we have Duncan Hunter in CA and they have Ted Poe in TX.
That’s a great idea, mazda. Are there any bumper stickers that say, “I stand with Arizona?”
Perhaps the bill can be named after Reagan who signed an amenesty bill on his watch. Just saying.
Face it Jan, the SOB lied again.
But Obama is so demonic that he defies any standard of what a President is.
Lord willing, there will never be another President as evil as he is.
You are an idiot. It doesn’t matter whether or not you liked President Bush, he loved this country.
Perhaps their orders will reflect a different goal.
Keep pushin', bastards......November ain't that far away.
Hello Ohio....come and visit us sometime...;).....
The time for Bush bashing is over.. Everyone should only wish he was still POTUS!!! I know I do everyday.. especially when I see that Idiot poser on TV every morning when I wake up!!!
I don’t know about any bumper stickers, but I will be watching Greta tonight. Gov. Brewer was to hear from BO by today, and hears she is being sued instead!! I am sure Greta will be sure to have her on tonight.
Watch out, there are a LOT of us! Hopefully after November Steele will be shuttled into retirement and can take his place in the affirmative action Hall of Fame...
Maybe I am way out in right field here...
But is not the Governor of the state the Commander in Chief of the state’s National Guard?
As such, can she not order the Guard deployed on the border, within her state?
I surmise it is likely a matter of who pays for it.
“I can still see him in that border patrol dune buggy, then getting back to DC just in time to call the minutemen “vigilantes”, and deliver speaches in spanish.”
He did indeed. Bush resented Americans objecting to illegal immigration every bit as much as Obama, right to the point of denigrating them as vigilantes.
So it wasn’t a surprise that his ‘brain’ Karl Rove saw fit to be honored by the racist National Council of La Raza and to give a speech at their annual shindig. The open borders wing of the GOP didn’t spend much effort in trying to hide their disdain for the ‘nativists’ and ‘xenophobes’ and vigilantes back then. Now some, like McCain, are hoping you will forget come election time.
I doubt you would be qualified to take his place... just a feeling I have.
If the government sues Arizona, it no longer is my government!
There’s the pretty good possibility that Hillary ‘congenital liar’ Clinton was lying.
“Governor Jan Brewer said she was stunned...”
I’m not.
Perhaps if the RINOs stay in power, they can coax Dede Scozzafava to take his place.
Unfrickin believable! Our government has essentially just declared WAR on a U.S. state!! I am beyond angry.
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