Mexico's
Murderous Drug War Spills Over U.S. Border. Eighteen months ago, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was
excoriated for warning of spillover from Mexico's war reaching our soil. Well, beheadings are becoming
common now. Yet that war is still ignored.
Arizona
strikes back: State investigates feds over gun-running. Arizona's state legislature will open
its own investigation into the Obama administration's disgraced gun-running program, known as "Fast and
Furious," the speaker of the state House said Friday [1/20/2012]. Speaker Andy Tobin created the
committee, and charged it with looking at whether the program broke any state laws — raising the
possibility of state penalties against those responsible for the operation. It's a turnaround from the rest
of the immigration issue, where the federal government has sued to block the state's own set of laws.
Five
ways Obama weakened America in 2011. Though illegal immigration continues to worsen as drug-cartel-related
violence spirals out of control in Mexico and spills across our border, the best Mr. Obama could do was sue
Arizona — and Utah and Alabama and South Carolina for implementing tough state laws to deal with
this crisis. With 11 million "undocumented" people out of our population of 311 million, that
alone is a security crisis deserving of immediate attention — yet one Mr. Obama basically has ignored.
Will
The Supreme Court Seal Our Nation's Borders? Arizona wasn't around when the original 13 states
formed the federal government knowing there were certain things it could do best, such as the constitutional
mandate to provide for the common defense and protect our borders. National and border security involves
not only deterring foreign armies armed with tanks, but also protecting our borders from an invasion involving
ladders and pickup trucks. That, Arizona argued when it passed SB1070, the feds have woefully failed
to do. So Arizona cloned federal law and said we'll do it ourselves.
Supreme
Court will hear Arizona immigration case: Kagan recuses herself. The Supreme Court announced Monday
[12/12/2011] it will take the case of Arizona's tough immigration crackdown law, adding yet another contentious
clash between the Obama administration and the states to its docket. The case, which has attracted national
attention, pits Arizona against the Obama administration, which sued and won court orders blocking implementation
of most of the law at both the district and appeals court levels.
Arizona
Governor Appeals Immigration Law to Supreme Court. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer filed an appeal
Wednesday [8/10/2011] with the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that put on hold key parts of the
state's immigration enforcement law.
A
Border Win For Arizona. In a victory for states' rights, the Supreme Court has upheld the state
law requiring businesses to verify immigration status of employees and revoking their business licenses if
they knowingly hire illegal aliens.
Arizona
immigration law upheld by supreme court. The US Supreme Court has upheld an Arizona law allowing
the state to shut down businesses that hire illegal immigrants, a ruling arising from the fierce national
debate on immigration policy.
A Win for Arizona,
and the Rule of Law. The Supreme Court on Thursday [5/26/2011] upheld Arizona's 2007 law requiring
all employers in the state to use the federal E-Verify system for screening out illegal aliens and revoking the
business licenses of firms that knowingly hire them. The court split 5-3 along party lines: Breyer,
Ginsburg, and Sotomayor (Kagan recused herself) ignored the plain meaning of the federal law empowering states
to use their licensing power to address the employment of illegal workers.
Public
School District Violates La Raza Studies Ban. A public school district in Arizona is violating a
new state law by continuing a radical La Raza studies program banned under the legislation because it
segregates students by race, teaches disdain for American sovereignty and ignites racial hostility.
Last year Arizona's legislature passed a measure (HB 2281) banning taxpayer-funded schools from
offering classes that are designed for students of a particular race and promote resentment toward a
certain ethnic group (in this case whites). However, the Tucson Unified School District, with a
largely Hispanic population, has yet to comply with the law which took effect in January.
Court rules against Arizona
immigration law. A federal appeals court on Monday [4/11/2011] refused to lift a stay
blocking major parts of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect and said the federal government
is likely to be able to prove the controversial law is unconstitutional.
Arizona
countersues federal government over border security. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer
announced Thursday [2/10/2011] her state has filed a countersuit against the federal government,
seeking the authority to implement its own border security efforts. "Security and border
control is by far the number one issue right now in Arizona," Brewer said at a news conference.
"Illegal immigration is costing us a billion dollars, a billion dollars a year to maintain the level
we're at and the federal government sits by and does nothing."
Half of All Illegal
Entries Into U.S. in 2010 Came Through One Sector of AZ Border. Approximately "half of all
illegal entries" into the United States and "half of all of the marijuana smuggled into the United States" in
fiscal 2010 occurred in the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector, which takes up only a part of the Arizona-Mexico
border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Commissioner Alan Bersin.
Supreme Court to
hear Arizona case about illegal workers. Against the backdrop of a fierce national debate over illegal
immigration, the Supreme Court on Wednesday [12/8/2010] will hear a challenge to an Arizona law that revokes the
licenses of companies that hire undocumented workers.
Arizona
Regains Footing in Legal Battle Over Immigration Law. After suffering a major legal setback in
the summer, Arizona regained its footing in court Friday [12/10/2010] when a federal judge dismissed parts of
the U.S. Justice Department's challenge to the state's new immigration law and rejected several claims made
by Hispanic activists and Phoenix police officers. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton's ruling on Friday
struck down the federal government's challenge to the portion of the law that prohibits the transport of
illegal immigrants.
'One Nation' under
Obama Has No Respect for America. As the southern border with Mexico remains a porous piece of
shoddy cloth, Arizona has become the ground zero of criminal violence perpetrated by those illegal aliens
Obama wishes to protect. So Arizonans are left to fend for themselves. Obama's answer was to hold
a joint press conference with the president of Mexico, in which both men denounced the "racist" Arizona law.
What a sham. The president might just as well have gone down to Arizona and spit in the faces of the American
citizens whose lives and property are daily threatened by the unfettered breakers of federal law.
The Delusional Dems. Much has been
written about American voters reacting negatively to the Obama-Reid-Pelosi lurch to the left with the bailouts,
the stimulus, the financial "reform" and, most of all, the crazy idea that government can borrow and spend our
way to prosperity. But there is another cause of the Democrats reversal of fortune that is rarely explored
by pundits left or right. It is the Obama jihad against Arizona for daring to take action to enforce
America's border with Mexico.
Obama's War on Arizona.
The Obama administration has included the Arizona state immigration law in a report of human rights abuses to
the United Nations, that collective negation of humanity and home to the worst human rights abusers in the
world. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer struck back Friday [9/3/2010], demanding that the reference to Arizona's immigration
law be taken out of the State Department's report to the U.N.'s human rights commissioner.
The
administration is trying to intimidate Arizonans. Arizona is in the politically correct
bulls-eye. What started out as a Democratic diversion to bolster the party's base and intimidate
other states from following suit in the fight to control the borders has escalated into an all-out legal
battle between justice and Chicago-style arm-twisting.
25
Reasons to Send the Democrats Packing in November. [#24] It's bad enough that the federal
government ignored the law, isn't trying to finish the fence, and refuses to secure our southern border.
But now, not only are they still talking up amnesty, they're actually harassing and suing Arizona because that
state has decided to do the job that the federal government is refusing to do.
United States Declares War on Arizona, Literally.
[Scroll down] And finally we get to probably the one person, other than Governor Brewer, who Obama and his
rogues would dearly love to injure, the inimitable, courageous and valiant Sheriff Joe Arpaio. From even
before Obama took office and named his lowlife miscreant Cabinet and Czars, he wanted Arpaio taken down.
Even now Joe is still riding high fighting illegal immigration, but Holder and the DOJ are yet preparing to
get him out. You ain't done yet, Joe; don't budge for those louts.
U.N. Human Wrongs.
The U.S. State Department is holding up Arizona as America's human rights problem, fishing for applause from the
likes of Cuba and Libya. But Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer isn't taking it lying down.
Arizona Now Has 'Whopping 30' National Guard Troops.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said requests by Arizona law enforcement personnel and Sens. John McCain
(R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) for 3,000 National Guard troops along the state's border with Mexico have
been answered so far with 1 percent of that number deployed there this week. "We have a whopping
30 [National Guard troops] this week that are showing up," Babeu told CNSNews.com. "It's less than a
half-hearted measure designed to fail."
22 States Considering Arizona-Style Immigration
Legislation. Twenty-two states are now in the process of drafting or seeking to pass
legislation similar to Arizona's law against illegal immigration. This is occurring despite the fact
that the Obama administration has filed a lawsuit against the Arizona law and a federal judge has ruled
against portions of that law — a ruling that is now being appealed.
New evidence undermines feds' case against Arizona. You've
heard a lot about the Justice Department's lawsuit to stop the new Arizona immigration law. But that's
just one part of the Obama administration's multi-front war on immigration enforcement in Arizona. In
addition to the drive to kill the new law, Attorney General Eric Holder is also suing the Maricopa Community
College system in Phoenix, alleging it broke the law by requiring a job seeker to provide a green card before
being hired.
Turning the lights on in media blackout Arizona.
Earth to Arizona mainstream media: patriots are already piercing sparks of bright light through your
media blackout. "Media censorship in Arizona has now become quite blatant. Can Canada Free
Press help," patriot Annette McHugh writes CFP this morning.
Obama:
Fighting the Yuppie Factor. It has been 19 months now, and a NASCAR-savvy public knows a
yuppie when it sees and hears one. Obama has never lived in the path of unchecked illegal immigration,
with all its attendant social and cultural ripples; instead, he has lived where even murmuring "Close the
borders" is considered Neanderthal. So he foolishly sues Arizona when 70 percent of America
wants to emulate the state.
America's Slipping
Grasp on Self-Governance. Left with few options and backed by overwhelming public support,
Arizona passed and signed its immigration enforcement law, S.B. 1070. The effort was met with
derision, slander, and an eventual lawsuit, once again forcing Arizona to wait for an unwilling federal
government to enforce the law and protect the border.
Everyone a Bigot?
State representatives in Arizona overwhelmingly passed an immigration law to popular acclaim — which the
Obama administration for now has successfully blocked in federal court. Arizonans simply wanted the
federal government to enforce its own laws. And yet they were quickly dubbed bigots and racists —
more worried about profiling Hispanics than curtailing illegal immigration.
Amnesty
In Disguise. After suing Arizona to assert federal supremacy over states on immigration, it turns out
that ICE, Washington's immigration cop on the beat, isn't enforcing the law at all. This is amnesty by
another name.
Obama's Imperial
Presidency. In the words of our second president: We are a government of laws, not of
men. ... Regrettably, President Obama is endangering this venerable tradition by deliberately and systematically
seeking to expand executive power well beyond its proper boundaries. In the process, he is trampling both
the constitutional authority of Congress and the sovereign rights of the states. This bold power grab is
directed at immigration, which is predominantly a domestic-policy matter, where unilateral presidential authority
is inherently weak. Obama's efforts appear to be driven by crass political considerations, making
them all the more unprecedented and unfortunate.
How
could an American president be so anti-American? [President Obama's] record has been so
blatantly in contrast to the will of this nation, that it could very nearly be defined as anti-American.
The latest example of this can be seen in the U.S. Justice Department's decision to fight the Arizona immigration
law through the courts; a law that 59% of U.S. voters would like to see in their very own state.
Arizona Sheriff: 'Our Own Government Has
Become Our Enemy'. Pinal County (Ariz.) Sheriff Paul Babeu is hopping mad at the federal
government. Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than help law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds
of thousands of people who come into the United States illegally, the federal government is targeting the
state and its law enforcement personnel.
Why Eric
Holder Will Not Last. There may be more incompetent Attorneys General who have served Presidential
administrations in U.S. History, but few if any of them have had a worse record than the present head of the
Justice Department. ... No over-reach will have been more embarrassing than the shellacking he is taking in
the DOJ vs. the State of Arizona.
Another
Day, Another Federal Assault on Liberty. We've seen that Obama will exercise any power he can
get away with, from strong-arming secured creditors and favoring unions as he gobbled up automakers to making
a mockery of due process with his Oval Office shakedown of BP. But he might have reached a new low
with his assaults on the sovereignty of the people of Arizona.
Brewer vows to take SB 1070 appeals to Supreme
Court if necessary. "I am disappointed by Judge Susan Bolton's ruling enjoining several provisions
of "The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" — SB 1070; though I am
heartened by some findings — including the ban on sanctuary cities. This fight is far from
over. In fact, it is just the beginning, and at the end of what is certain to be a long legal struggle,
Arizona will prevail in its right to protect our citizens.
Federal Judge Blocks Key Parts
of Arizona Immigration Law. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton issued a preliminary injunction
preventing several sections of Arizona's new immigration law from going into effect tomorrow as scheduled,
at least pending the court's ability to hear the full case.
Come
November, Remember Yesterday's 'Temporary Restraining Order' in Arizona. We all know what the
motive behind it was, and it has nothing to do with "human rights" or "splitting up families" or other
such poppycock.
Judging
Arizona. A federal judge blocked most of Arizona's immigration law on the grounds that it puts
an undue burden on the federal government. That leaves Arizona defenseless to open borders and derelict
feds.
Networks
Protest Arizona's Immigration Law With Cameras and Microphones. The TV networks have
aggressively demonstrated their dislike of Arizona's state law "cracking down on illegal immigrants," a law
that "pits neighbor against neighbor." An MRC review of morning and evening news programs on ABC, CBS,
and NBC from April 23 to July 25 found the networks have aired 120 stories with an almost
ten-to-one tilt against the Arizona law (77 negative, 35 neutral, 8 positive).
Has the Time Come to Replace the Federal
Government? After Clinton appointed Judge Susan Bolton ruled Wednesday that — for
all intents and purposes — Arizona does not have the right to protect itself or its citizens
from invading drug cartels and the illegal foreign hordes that are bleeding it dry of its resources, it
should have become apparent to even the dimmest that We-the-People no longer exist. We are now living
under a tyranny developed, directed, implemented and enforced by the Marxists in power.
Judicial
activism against Arizona. U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton miscalculated when she blocked
critical aspects of Arizona's immigration enforcement law. Her decision will further intensify efforts
by states to find solutions to problems posed by the Obama administration's unwillingness to take command of
this pressing issue. The decision is certain to inflame the illegal immigration debate, and it doesn't
bode well for the president or his party.
Free pass for sanctuary
cities? The Obama administration had gone to federal court to kill Arizona's new illegal-immigration
law, scheduled to go into effect Thursday [7/29/2010]. The Department of Justice argues that enforcement of the Arizona
law "is pre-empted by federal law and therefore violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution."
Does this mean that if Team Obama prevails over Arizona, San Francisco and other sanctuary cities should
prepare to go to court against the feds?
Obama:
Post-Racial, Post-Partisan, or Post-Sanity? We now have an administration which views
injustices against blacks as quite different from comparable injustices against whites and intends
to file no future actions for voting rights violations against blacks. It attempts to cultivate
actual and potential Hispanic voters by minimizing enforcement of federal immigration laws, while suing
Arizona for trying to fill the void. It is presumed that enforcement (which has not yet begun) will be
racially motivated and that it is proper to attack as racists those who view the situation differently.
Obama's War Against the (Red) States.
When Gov. Jan Brewer signed Arizona's now famous immigration bill into law on April 23, it was
immediately evident that she had crossed a line that President Obama didn't want her to cross. Thus
his administration quickly reviewed lessons learned from years in the Chicago political machine and began
using PR tactics to shame Brewer into a retraction. But when the PR stunts failed and the nation
overwhelming agreed that Arizonans were right to secure their borders, Obama stepped it up and had his
Justice Department craft the lawsuit filed against the Arizona law earlier this month.
Obama
lawsuit invites fortified state militia. Arizona has enacted a law that enables state and local
police to support federal immigration enforcement, in a carefully circumscribed manner. This moderate
statute is under vicious attack by the Obama administration and assorted amnesty advocates. Yet Arizona
and her sister states in the Southwest could take dramatically stronger actions to bring order to the border.
And they would have both history and the Constitution on their side.
Arizona
immigration law heads to court, with $1.2 million war chest. As Arizona heads to court
Thursday [7/15/2010] to defend its tough new immigration law in the first of several legal challenges, it has the
backing of many Americans who have opened their wallets to show support for the border state.
Contributions to Gov. Jan Brewer's special legal defense fund now top $1 million, mostly in website
donations of less than $100 pouring in from all over the country.
Arizona's
immigration law isn't the only one. Colorado restricts illegal immigrants from receiving
in-state tuition. Nebraska requires verification of immigration status to obtain public benefits.
In Tennessee, knowingly presenting a false ID card to get a job is a misdemeanor. Arizona's strict
new law has generated the most controversy, but there are hundreds of immigration-related laws on the books
across the country. The laws regulate employment, law enforcement, education, benefits and healthcare.
Arizona's
immigration law copied by five states: MI, SC, MN, PA, RI. Arizona's not alone. Five
states have introduced similar immigration laws since The Grand Canyon State passed controversial legislation
that is scheduled to kick in on July 29, according the Los Angeles Times. The number of
immigration-based laws and resolutions supported by states has increased by more than 10 times
in recent years.
The
Radicalism of the Anti-Arizona Suit. If nothing else, the state of Arizona has smoked out the
Obama administration. To make the case that the Arizona immigration law conflicts with, and therefore
is preempted by, federal law, the Justice Department has to make an extraordinary claim — that the
federal laws as written don't matter so much.
Holder
should drop the Arizona suit. Virginia is now the most recent of nine states to unite in
opposition to Attorney General Eric Holder's politically charged suit against Arizona's recently enacted
immigration law. Don't be surprised if more states join the Arizona cause because Holder is now adding
insult to injury by threatening a second suit against Arizona. This one would charge Arizona with racial
profiling if the federal courts allow the state's statute to go into effect as scheduled on July 29.
Suing
America. The main topics at the National Governors Association's summer meeting were supposed
to be jobs and the economy. Instead, the buzz was about immigration and the political consequences of
Washington's mindless suing of a sovereign state for daring to enforce federal immigration law.
Critics
Question Why Obama Administration Doesn't Crack Down on Sanctuary Cities. Now that the
Obama administration is suing Arizona over its tough immigration law, some critics are asking why so-called
sanctuary cities are getting a pass for ignoring federal immigration law. More than 50 cities
in the U.S provide sanctuaries to illegal immigrants. Supporters of such policies say they want the
local police to focus on solving crimes and leave the immigration work to the federal authorities.
Opportunity
Obama-style. It's no secret Obama can always squeeze in time for a few rounds of golf.
In addition, the put-your-feet-up President is also an aficionado of extended weekends relaxing and availing
himself of what he perceives as frequent well-deserved breaks. Yet, the President whose administration
has chosen to sue the state of Arizona has set nary a wingtip on the border of the Grand Canyon State to
assess the illegal immigration dilemma.
New Black Panthers, You're Free To Go — Not
So Fast, Arizona. State laws are pre-empted by federal law in two circumstances: When
there is a conflict — such as "sanctuary cities" for illegals or California's medical marijuana
law — or when Congress has so thoroughly regulated a field that there is no room for even congruent
state laws. If Obama thinks there's a conflict, I believe he's made a damning admission. There's
a conflict only if the official policy of the federal government is to ignore its own immigration laws.
Only slightly less preposterous is the argument that although Arizona's law agrees with federal law,
Congress has engaged in "field pre-emption" by occupying the entire field of immigration, thus
prohibiting even harmonious state laws.
AZ Ceded to Mexico and the Rise of the Obama
Police State? Our founders' reasons for dissolving the bonds between England and the emerging
USA were myriad. But, it is uncanny and may even be a bit unsettling to discover that the motivations
for We-the-People breaking away from King George III are the same ones we find in our current US government
today.
Seventh Lawsuit
Filed Over Ariz. Immigration Law. The lawsuit was filed Friday [7/9/2010] in federal court
and is the first legal objection to training materials designed to teach Arizona police officers how to
enforce the new law, set to go into effect July 29.
Holder
Floats Possibility of Racial Profiling Suit Against Arizona. Attorney General Eric Holder,
just days after filing a federal lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law, on Sunday [7/11/2010] floated
the possibility of filing another suit on racial profiling grounds. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S.
District Court in Arizona claimed the state was infringing on federal immigration responsibilities and
urged the judge to prevent the law from going into effect at the end of July. Despite some officials'
claims that the law could lead to racial profiling, that concern was not cited as grounds for the suit.
Arizona
immigration lawsuit: Obama sails into a political storm. By approving Attorney General
Eric Holder's lawsuit against Arizona and its tough new illegal immigration law, President Obama has set
course into a political hurricane that some political analysts say could ultimately undermine comprehensive
immigration reform, at least in the short-term.
States
Fight Back Against Federal Tyranny and Abuse. Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce is incensed
over the Obama administration's "outrageous" and bogus lawsuit against the state of Arizona over its perfectly
legitimate effort to protect its border and citizens. Pearce does not mince words, saying this lawsuit
is a matter of the Obama administration's abusing its power to advance its "nonenforcement mentality and
agenda. ... It's outrageous, what (the administration is) doing. This is about an agenda. This
is a president that is acting like a dictator. This is a president who is ignoring the rule of law
and siding with lawbreakers over the citizens of this country and the citizens of this state while damage
is being conducted every single day. Every single day!"
The
DOJ's Unsupported Suit Against the Arizona Immigration Law. On July 6, 2010, the Holder
Justice Department, allegedly without consultation with President Obama, filed suit in federal district court
in Arizona to block the new Arizona law intended to enforce existing federal laws against unlawful immigration,
something the federal government itself has patently failed to do. The suit asks the court for, among
other things, an order restraining Arizona from implementing the new statute later this month as scheduled, pending
the outcome of the litigation. It is evident that this was done for partisan political purposes, although
it seems quite likely that the political results will not be those which the Obama administration desires.
Obama Courts Latino Votes at Arizona's
Expense. Before taking office, every President of the United States must take the oath of
office as prescribed by Article 2, Section 1 of the United States Constitution. ... Let's look
at another oath sworn by the guardsmen that are being deployed to Arizona to man desks and computers. ... This
oath requires guardsmen to defend the State of Arizona if that is where they are sent. They must
defend it from all enemies foreign or domestic.
Eric Holder and
Federalist 45. [Scroll down] Why are the attorney general and the president pursuing this suit?
To show the world that Big Government is even bigger than you may have supposed. In their view, Washington
runs your life. Washington tells you whether you can enforce the law. Washington tells you what
sort of health care you can have. Washington tells you how much money you can make. Washington
is the machine: you are but a cog. According to Washington, that is. What would
James Madison have thought?
Arizona's
Constitutional War Powers. Given the levels of illegal migration and narco-trafficking
across its southern border, the State of Arizona deserves America's commendation for the remarkable
restraint it has exhibited in dealing with what has become a most serious international and domestic
problem. ... The route taken by the State of Arizona, enactment of Senate Bill 1070, is far less severe
than it could have been if the route taken had been war, as granted to the states by the U.S. Constitution.
Article 1, Section 10, Cl. 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America provides
that "[n]o state shall, without the consent of Congress ... engage in War, unless actually invaded, or
in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."
Revealing polling data about which
the White House cares little. Rasmussen has data on what voters think about the federal
government's suit against Arizona, which seeks to invalidate that state's new immigration enforcement
law. By a 2 to 1 ratio (56 percent to 28 percent), those surveyed oppose that
suit. Moreover, 61 percent would like to see a law such as Arizona's enacted in their
state. That's up 6 points from two months ago.
The
Hollow Case Against Arizona. After smearing Arizona's immigration law as racial profiling, the
Justice Department has issued its lawsuit against the state. But it's not about civil rights anymore.
It's about a federal "right" to not enforce U.S. law.
Obammigration. It's
President Obama's policy not to secure America's southern border. Yesterday [7/5/2010], his administration
filed suit against Arizona for its new law to try to enforce immigration statutes already on the books.
This comes after the administration brought legal action against the Grand Canyon State for a 2007 law that
strips business licenses away from companies that violate immigration laws. It's clear the White House
is working to make states defenseless against an illegal invasion.
Obama's lawsuit against Arizona: Immigration is my
responsibility to shirk. Wherever it has benefited trial lawyers, the Obama administration has
fought against federal pre-emption of state laws. His administration, at the behest of the American
Association for Justice, even issued an executive order banning new preemptive regulations, which often
prevent state-level lawsuits against companies whose products adhere to federal regulations. Now this
same doctrine of preemption has become the basis for President Obama's lawsuit against Arizona.
Obama
faces backlash on his immigration plan. President Obama and his party have taken a huge
political gamble on the issue of illegal immigration. It could turn a bad political year into a
catastrophe. Worse still for the president and his party, 2010 may sow seeds for future defeats.
Obama is resisting efforts to stop illegal immigration — suing to block Arizona's crackdown and
holding hostage federal enforcement of immigration law until Congress agrees to some sort of amnesty program
for those already here.
The
President is fighting a reckless war that will backfire politically. The Obama administration
is getting quite the reputation for bucking the wishes of the people. From pushing through an unpopular
health care bill to imposing a moratorium on offshore drilling that's costing the already-suffering gulf
region precious jobs, it has refused to back down when it comes to the will of the masses. Now,
President Obama's Justice Department has decided to sue the State of Arizona over its new law targeting
illegal aliens, when a majority of the public favors the legislation, leaving many to wonder if the
increasingly detached White House has gone too far.
Why sue Arizona and
not Missouri? In a visit with Ecuadorian officials Secretary of State Hillary Clinton let slip that
the Obama Administration intends to sue the state of Arizona over recently passed immigration laws. While
Hillary's speaking out of turn may have forced the Administration's hand, a Justice Department spokesman confirmed
that the DOJ was building a case against Arizona and would likely bring suit in the near future. There is one
puzzling aspect to this, though; if they thought this violated the Constitution, why didn't the Administration
protest when Missouri did what Arizona is now doing?
How 'Bout
United States v. Rhode Island? It turns out that Rhode Island has long been carrying out the
procedures at issue in the Arizona immigration statute: As a matter of routine, RI state police check
immigration status at traffic stops whenever there is reasonable suspicion to do so, and they report all
illegals to the feds for deportation.
A
contemptible suit. The White House says President Obama had nothing to do with the Justice
Department's challenge to Arizona's immigration law, insisting the decision was Attorney General Eric
Holder's alone. Please. This is a political lawsuit, driven by Obama's drop in the polls among
Hispanics and Democrats' hope of bringing out Latinos this fall by hanging an anti-immigrant millstone around
the GOP's neck. The Arizona statute, on the other hand, is chiefly about the rule of law.
Just
32% View Holder, Napolitano Favorably. Next week is likely to be a big one for Attorney General
Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano if the Obama administration moves ahead with its
threatened legal challenge of Arizona's popular new immigration law. Right now, Rasmussen Reports national
telephone surveying finds that just 32% of U.S. voters have at least somewhat favorable opinions of the two
top Cabinet players.
Arizona
Governor Jan Brewer says new border signs are an outrage. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is calling
a new border security initiative an outrage. In a campaign video posted on YouTube Friday [6/25/2010],
Brewer stood in front of what she called newly posted signs by President Obama's administration about the
Arizona desert being an active drug and human smuggling area. "Washington says our border is as safe as
it has ever been," Brewer said. "Does this look safe to you?"
Obama
Courts Latinos by Suing Arizona. Why is President Obama suing to invalidate the Arizona law on
illegal immigration? Why is he incurring the enmity of even his own Democratic congressmen from the Phoenix
and Tucson areas by trying to kill a law that two-thirds of Arizona and a similar proportion of America as
a whole supports? The answer: It is a desperate, last-ditch attempt to rebuild his sagging
popularity with America's Hispanic voters.
Ending Birthright Citizenship.
When the open-borders lobby runs out of excuses for amnesty, their final resort is to "do it for the
children." Last year Nancy Pelosi told a crowd in San Francisco that "Our future is about our children"
and "Taking parents from their children ... that's un-American." When the speaker of the House considers
enforcing our immigration laws "un-American," it becomes the constitutional duty of the states to stand against
illegal immigration. This is why I introduced SB 1070 into the Arizona legislature, which has prompted
a much needed national debate about immigration.
L.A.
City Council Makes Exemption for Lucrative Traffic Camera Contract. Los Angeles council members
voted Wednesday [6/23/2010] to make an exemption to its self-imposed boycott of Arizona, opting to extend a
contract with an Arizona-based company that operates enforcement cameras at Los Angeles
intersections — a program that earned the city $6 million last year.
Terrorists
crossing AZ border into U.S.? On a single day in April, in a special cell block deep inside the
Pinal County Jail, nearly 400 inmates sat awaiting trial or extradition after being detained trying to
cross the Arizona border from Mexico. Only about half of them were actually from Mexico. ... On that
one day in April, according to records obtained by [KNXV-TV], Homeland Security officials were holding
inmates from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, and the Sudan.
The Obamites v.
Arizona, &c. I knew that I wouldn't like the Obama administration and its policies. I am
a Reagan Republican. But I didn't know the administration would be so disgusting. Honestly.
Whose good opinion would the administration prefer? The U.N.'s or Arizonans'?
Obama Cracks Down. The
sweet nothings Hillary Clinton whispered into the ears of foreign television audiences went stateside on
Friday [6/18/2010], as America media outlets began confirming what the secretary of state first told an
Ecuadoran news channel: the Obama administration is planning a lawsuit against Arizona's new
immigration law. Publicly, Obama administration lawyers will only admit that a thorough "review" of
SB 1070 is ongoing. But the toothpaste is out of the tube.
Red light camera pact
would need exemption from Arizona boycott. On Tuesday [6/22/2010], the City Council is scheduled to
consider — and appears likely to approve — an exception to the boycott allowing
a 10-month extension of a multimillion-dollar agreement with Scottsdale-based American Traffic Solutions.
The firm operates cameras at 32 city intersections that catch tens of thousands of red light violators each year.
More
about the use of traffic signals as fund-raisers.
Arizona
Governor Stands Her Ground on Immigration Law. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer refused to flinch after
Obama administration officials confirmed Friday that they plan to file a lawsuit challenging the state's
anti-illegal immigration law. In a statement issued late Friday [6/18/2010], Brewer called Obama's
decision "outrageous" but "not surprising."
Most Americans
back new Arizona law, Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. Most Americans support the new,
controversial Arizona law that gives police there the power to check the residency status of suspected
illegal immigrants. But most also still back a program giving those here illegally the right to
earn legal documentation, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
SB 1070
disputed on new grounds. Saying domestic-violence victims will be endangered, a national
organization that advocates on behalf of women wants a federal judge to block Arizona from enforcing
its new law aimed at illegal immigrants.
What
Side Is She On? Hillary Clinton assured Ecuadoreans the U.S. would sue Arizona if it tried to
enforce federal immigration laws. She said it just as the feds ceded part of Arizona to Mexican
traffickers.
Arizona Governor Blasts Eric Holder.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer scolded Atty. Gen. Eric Holder for holding open the prospect of a lawsuit when Arizona
is already facing five legal challenges over the state's new immigration law. "I would much prefer for
them not to file suit, given the fact that they could take the money and help me build a fence on my
border," Brewer said in an interview with three Human Events editors by phone from Phoenix.
Brewer's
Yeast. We've seen the photos of children holding signs at protests that read, "Don't deport my
parents." They're called "anchor babies" because they're considered citizens by being born on American
soil. You can't break up families, the argument goes, even to enforce the nation's immigration laws.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who had the audacity to copy federal law and then enforce it in cases where illegal
aliens suspected of violating the law can't prove they belong here, has an answer to that too: Send
the kids home with their parents; the family that leaves together, stays together.
Arizona's
courts could collapse under weight of anti-illegal immigration lawsuits: attorneys. Attorneys
in the Grand Canyon State fear the influx of legal battles that will undoubtedly arise as a result of the
coming anti-illegal immigration law could overwhelm the Arizona court system. "We already have a
backlog of cases," immigration attorney Maria Jones told The Arizona Republic. "I think it's
going to triple."
Anchors Away. The
state of Arizona is preparing to deal with the issue of anchor babies, one of the many problematic products
of the illegal immigration business. While the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides birthright
citizenship to all people born in the country, illegals have used the law to their advantage after having
violated one of the nation's other laws: entering or remaining in the country illegally.
Obama's Misguided Border Response.
For years Arizona sought Washington solutions to illegal immigration. The state finally acted unilaterally
because the federal government failed to respond to the growing border crisis. Now, Washington's belated
response wastes money and does nothing to address the broken border.
Remember the Alamo. What is ironic
is that Mexico enforces the same basic immigration law on its Southern border with Guatemala as Arizona's new
immigration law, which few in the Obama Administration have actually read, but are vehemently opposed to even
though Arizona's immigration law is actually not as stringent as the federal government's immigration law which
no one in Obama Administration wants to enforce.
Teachers
Take Kids on a Protest Trip to Arizona. Standing in front of a wall-to-wall mural featuring
a who's who of revolutionaries, including Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, and boldly
displaying the motto Patria o Muerte, Venceremos!!! (Fatherland or Death, We Shall Overcome!!!), a group
of teachers, students, parents and community activists in the Los Angeles Unified School District gathered last
month for an unusual field trip — to Arizona, to protest that state's controversial immigration law.
The
Racial-Profiling Smoke Screen. As each day passes without any abatement in the increasingly
surreal hysteria over the Arizona immigration law, the ground for that opposition becomes ever clearer:
The real problem with the Arizona law is that it threatens to make immigration enforcement a reality.
Every other argument against it is a smoke screen.
Arizona
Gov. to Obama: We'll see you in court. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer made clear Tuesday [6/1/2010]
she's not worried about a potential legal challenge from the Obama administration over her state's controversial
immigration law. "We'll meet you in court," Brewer told CNN's John King when asked how she would respond
if President Barack Obama's justice department decided to challenge the law. "I have a pretty good record
of winning in court."
Los
Angeles Students to Be Taught That Arizona Immigration Law Is Un-American. The Los Angeles
Unified School District school board wants all public school students in the city to be taught that
Arizona's new immigration law is un-American.
Mexican Revolutionaries in
America. One of Bill Ayers' courses at the University of Illinois includes Pedagogy of the
Oppressed as required reading. Author Paulo Freire, a Brazilian Marxist, declared: "This, then,
is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors
as well." It turns out that the Freire book is required reading in "Raza Studies" or Mexican-American
courses in the high schools in Tucson, Arizona, where students have been protesting Arizona's new immigration
law.
Did
someone mention Bill Ayers?
Arizona
governor, Obama face off. Inside the Oval Office on Thursday, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
went head-to-head with President Obama as she demanded he take more steps to secure the U.S.-Mexico
border, and they failed to make headway on the state's tough new immigration law.
Is This Just a
Nightmare, or Did It Really Happen? Over the past week we witnessed presidential and
congressional disloyalty without precedent in American history, events that should be indelibly imprinted on
the American electorate's collective memory. For the first time (at least to this writer's knowledge),
a foreign head of state who is promoting an ongoing, aggressive, illegal, and often violent invasion of
America came to our country, met with our president, and, from the White House itself, received our
president's implicit but obvious public support for that invasion; and that same foreign leader spoke to
Congress and received a standing ovation from its Democrat members' for his country's war on America's
borders.
Radical
Islamic Terrorists and America's Immigration Crisis. At a press conference last Wednesday [5/19/2010]
with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, President Barack Obama said his administration was taking a "very close
look" at Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law, "for any implications, especially for civil rights."
So while the Obama Administration looks at civil rights implications, the big question to ask is will they also
look at the implications of the radical Islamic terrorists in America — including those who have
taken advantage of the broken U.S. immigration system?
That
Ain't Hay, It's The USA. I gave a speech for the Goldwater Institute in Tucson a few weeks
back, and several people came up from the border to see me. Like many letter writers I've heard from
since, they told tales of living in remote properties where every night illegals cross their land. They
lie awake at night frightened for their children and listening for footsteps in the yard. In effect,
the sovereignty of the United States of America no longer applies in this territory — and John
Morton and the Department of Homeland Security are entirely cool with that.
The Remarkable Rise of
Jan Brewer. As women have moved into the forefront of conservative politics, they have become
targets for serious assaults from the left. The treatment they receive is far worse than that given male
politicians of the same order, as we have clearly seen with Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. Families,
looks, personality, grooming, every last element of their lives and persons becomes fodder for some of the
trashiest elements of the contemporary political scene. No insult is too low, no attack too foul.
The gentleman has truly become an extinct species, at least on the left side of the fence. But nothing
of the sort has happened with Jan Brewer.
Lights
Out In L.A.? An Arizona official asks a good question: If California wants to boycott
Arizona over the way it enforces federal law, what about the electricity California gets from there?
Fight Illegal
Immigration: Buy from Arizona. Sarah Palin recently said, "We're all Arizonans
now." As such, we can do our part in the fight against illegal immigration by buying products
and services from Arizona. Here are some suggestions to start.
Top
Official Says Feds May Not Process Illegals Referred From Arizona. A top Department of Homeland
Security official reportedly said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them
by Arizona authorities.
Attacks
On Arizona Are Attacks On America. From President Obama's perspective, protecting the interests
of Americans who have seen their lives and property decimated by nothing less than an invasion of foreigners
is somehow tantamount to a treasonous attack on the nation.
Arizona Leads the
Way. [Scroll down slowly] One can easily see where this is headed. Once these nitwits
within the administration actually get around to attempting to formulate the official challenge and find
absolutely no constitutional grounds for negating this law, they will revert to the Chicago thug style
politics that this administration falls back on whenever the legal system works against their wishes.
I predict here, that eventually President Obama will announce that if Arizona dares to enforce this policy,
that federal dollars usually distributed to that state for school programs, highways, and employment
opportunities; in short all federal dollars, will be deliberately withheld until the state knuckles
under, accepts the murders, kidnappings, and continued drug trafficking; and meekly allows the mayhem
the federal government desires to continue to be foisted upon their taxpaying citizens.
Why
Arizona Should "Racially Profile". Given that more than 90 percent of the illegals
in Arizona hail from Mexico and Latin America, isn't "Hispanic" part of the relevant profile here?
'Humanitarian'
owners never fight for fans. What if the owners of the Suns discovered that hordes of people were
sneaking into Suns' games without paying? What if the owners had a good idea as to who the gate-crashers
are, but the ushers and security personnel were not allowed to ask these folks to produce their ticket stubs,
thus non-paying attendees couldn't be ejected?
'Los' Suns: Stuck on Stupido.
Nothing illuminates the bankruptcy of liberalism better than liberalism itself. The above quote was a
composite of fan responses to Phoenix Sun owner Robert Sarver's idea that his team wear "Los Suns" jerseys to
protest the new Arizona immigration law. Is there any doubt how Mr. Sarver would react if what he claims
to believe in were directly applied to his interests?
They must have found a lawyer who was willing to help.
16 illegals sue
Arizona rancher. An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal
immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to
violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.
More
about lawyers.
Least Successful P.R. Campaign Ever?
That is, the campaign to demonize and delegitimize Arizona's effort to enforce the immigration laws.
Notwithstanding relentless negative coverage in the press combined with positive reports on protests against
the law, and condemnation by President Obama and many other prominent politicians, Rasmussen finds that
nationally, 59% of voters favor a law like Arizona's. That figure is unchanged from last week.
Texas Should Be
Leading The Charge. This whole "Boycott Arizona" garbage is getting to the point of ridiculous.
Are we so "PC" that the fear of insulting the good integrity of those fine, upstanding and law-abiding ILLEGAL
aliens pouring into America has caused everyone to go completely nuts over — and totally blind
to — a much needed law that deals with these criminals?
AZ
governor now targets ethnic studies. Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, already under fire for
approving the nation's toughest illegal immigration law, has again run afoul of liberal activists, signing a
bill Wednesday that targets ethnic studies programs in schools that critics say unfairly demean white Americans.
The law, which takes effect Dec. 31, would prohibit courses that promote resentment toward one race; that
are designed for students of one race; that promote ethnic solidarity "instead of treating students as
individuals;" and that encourage "the overthrow of the United States government."
Obama Dishonors Memory of Murdered Rancher Rob
Krentz. Despite the murder of Robert Krentz and the general drug-smuggling and killing carnage
taking place at the U.S.-Mexico border, President Obama welcomed Mexican President Felipe Calderon to the
White House on May 19 by stating that the relationship between America and third-world Mexico is not
defined by the border.
The
Presidents and the Arizona Law. We've pretty much had it with the attacks on Arizona and the
self-debasement of our country by the president. We are the United States and Arizona is our soil,
part of our country. Lately, however, there's been too much denigration of Arizona from the White House,
and too much tearing down of Arizona for a law that is — if anything — more liberal than
the federal law.
Getting
Lectured on Human Rights by Mexico. The Obama administration is deeply embarrassed by the legislators
of Arizona. ... At a joint press conference with Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, who recently described
the Arizona law as "violating the human rights of all people," President Obama delivered a message to "the
American people and to the Mexican people" that his administration was taking a hard look at the "troubling"
law.
Constitutionally
Dangerous. It was bad enough when states began locking people up because of crimes they might
commit in the future. Then, in 2006, Congress copied the idea, enacting a law that allows the indefinite
civil commitment of federal prisoners who have completed their sentences but are deemed "sexually dangerous."
Mexico's
President Has Some Nerve. The Democrats thought that if they invited Mexican President Calderon
to address a Joint Meeting of Congress this week that they could encourage him to use that solemn opportunity
to take a swipe at Arizona's new immigration law. Well it backfired. The fact that an American
administration would invite and incite a head of state to disrespect our nation is unconscionable.
What If Arizona Were Quebec?
Suppose for a moment that 15 million Americans — the population of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Rhode Island, and Connecticut combined — sneaked across the border into Quebec. Suppose that these illegal
immigrants refused to learn to speak French, that they applied for Canadian welfare, that they reproduced at a rate higher
than Quebec's residents, and that they bankrupted Canada's socialized medical system. Suppose that they sent their
children to Canadian schools in such large numbers that Quebec's school system had to teach "French as a Second Language"
courses.
Pro-immigration
violence escalates. Blatant falsehoods about Arizona's new immigration law keep piling up.
Not only is the substance of the law grossly distorted, the liberal media is demonizing anyone who supports the
reform and minimizing any wrongs by those opposing it. Compare the media's hostile treatment of peaceful
Tea Party protests to the sometimes violent leftist demonstrations against Arizona's law. No Tea Party
demonstrators have been arrested during anti-government gatherings, and none has thrown rocks or broken
bottles at police.
Arizona Congressman Declines to Answer Question about
Sealing the Border. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who represents a congressional district that
includes 300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, turned and walked away and did not answer when CNSNews.com
asked him whether he was committed to sealing the border against the influx of illegal drugs.
Catholic Church
Facilitates Foreign Invasion. The controversy over Arizona's immigration law should be used
to highlight the shameful role of the Roman Catholic Church in facilitating the foreign invasion of the
U.S. This scandal deserves as much attention as the seemingly never-ending cases of sexual child
abuse involving priests.
The Arizona Law and The Truth.
What many on the side of illegals cannot seem to grasp, is that allowing illegals to take advantage of our
health care, education, welfare, and food stamps is not only draining the border states, but it is, once again,
creating a sub culture of the poor dependent on the government. Not to mention that our policies have
allowed the exploitation of Mexican workers.
The Arizona Uproar.
Last Friday [4/23/2010], Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB1070, making it a crime to be in the state
illegally and requiring cops, where "reasonable suspicion" exists, to determine a person's legal status.
Rev. Al Sharpton is promising to come to Arizona to march, the New York Times says that the state has gone
"off the deep end," and the Nazi references are flying.
Arizona acts
as Washington dithers. On April 23, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law S.B. 1070,
sponsored by state Sen. Russell Pearce. The law makes it a state crime for an alien to commit certain
federal immigration violations while in Arizona. However, based on the hyperventilating reaction of the
open-borders left, one would think Arizona had constructed a police state. Protesters took to the
streets in Arizona displaying Mexican flags, chanting "Si se puede" and carrying signs saying,
"Legalize Arizona." Media hound Al Sharpton declared that he would organize "freedom walkers" to
challenge the law.
Joe Arpaio and Al Sharpton's immigration road
show. The national debate over immigration is being framed by a deeply personal and long-running
argument between two of its most polarizing figures: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Reverend
Al Sharpton.
New Flavor, Same Race Hustler. Even
as the Rev. Al Sharpton is being touted as the Obama Administration's latest — and increasingly
connected — ally on race relations, some are wondering if his presence on the scene of the Arizona
immigration debate is hurting more than helping as heated battle lines over the state's tough new law are drawn...
More
about Race-based Political Opportunism.
Immigration
Law: What The Media Fail To Report. Media coverage of Arizona's new immigration law has
become so bad that even some Republicans, like Senate candidate Marco Rubio of Florida, have criticized the
law. Most news reports make it seem as if any Arizona cop can mosey up to any Hispanic and ask for
his immigration papers.
Desperate Dems Turn up the Heat on Amnesty.
Democrats are desperately attempting to make the Arizona state crackdown on illegal immigration a national election-year
issue. The border violence is already a big issue for voters, but not in the way Dems would like.
Arizona Has It Right. In the
absence of any real border enforcement by the federal government, Arizona rightfully took matters into their
own hands and passed a law that whereby Arizona cops can demand to see immigration papers from people they
stop. Good for Arizona. Other states, especially border states, should follow their lead.
Whose Country Is This?
With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the
border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there. Arizona acted because the U.S.
government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce
America's immigration laws.
Arizona to Obama:
Do your job. To hear liberal critics talk, it would be easy to think the state of Arizona unleashed
anti-Latino posses to detain all brown-skinned people, demand their proof of citizenship and toss them in jail
if the answers aren't satisfactory. The real story is more sober.
Praising Arizona (In Border Battle).
Arizona moves to protect its citizens from a raging border war, and the administration and its activist supporters
cry racism. Why is antelope protection more important than protecting American lives?
How
Mexico treats its illegal immigrants. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has accused Arizona of
opening the door "to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement." But Arizona has
nothing on Mexico when it comes to cracking down on illegal aliens. While open-borders activists decry
new enforcement measures signed into law in "Nazi-zona" last week, they remain deaf, dumb or willfully blind
to the unapologetically restrictionist policies of our neighbors to the south.
The Next Woman on
the Left's Hate List. Expect to see Governor Brewer portrayed all over the liberal media as both
inarticulate and intellectually challenged. Within days it's likely someone will step forward claiming
to have overheard Brewer sharing that from the porch of the Governor's mansion, she can see Mexico.
The Great Arizona Shootout.
It is not politically correct, but it has to be said. The impetus to furious objections to the new Arizona law
that makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally is primarily an effort by the organized Latino
community to expand its political base and thus power. In this intense effort the Hispanic leaders have
enlisted the support of elements in the Democrat party that enjoy an expanded and dependable voting bloc, and
those in the Republican Party who seek to maintain an ever ready pool of cheap and/or seasonal labor.
Message From
Arizona: Don't Tread On Me. President Obama's criticism last Friday [4/23/2010] of a piece of Arizona state
legislation — criticism that came before the Governor had even made a decision about the bill — is
further evidence that, for him, the needs and preferences of the individual states are rather irrelevant. Yet it is
this very sort of arrogant disregard for the states that led to Arizona's controversial new illegal immigration bill in
the first place, and the President's remarks serve to rub yet more salt into a wound that has been festering for years.
Unprecedented: Arizona
Governor Declares Crime Illegal. Disheartened Democrats, frustrated by their inability to find violence
among Tea Partiers have now turned their boundless supply of venom toward Arizona governor, Jan Brewer — sponsor
of the new apartheid and facilitator of the next Holocaust — if one is mindless enough to take Democrat
caterwauling seriously. Governor Brewer, whose state is literally under siege, took the bold step of singing
a bill which declares breaking the law to be illegal.
Janet Napolitano Lied, Rob Krentz Died.
Rancher Rob Krentz spent his life working on his 35,000-acre cattle ranch by the border with Mexico in Cochise
County, Ariz. His family had owned the ranch since 1907. He died there last weekend, he and his dog
shot by an illegal alien that he was trying to help. The Arizona Cattle Growers' Association immediately
posted a $15,000 reward. The Monday before Rob Krentz was killed, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet
Napolitano, a former Arizona governor, made a speech claiming "significant progress" in controlling violence
along the border. It was a lie.
Obama's war on
Sherrif Joe Arpaio: You may have heard of Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio who has been a
one man border enforcement machine — doing the job the feds refuse to do. Well, Joe got
himself in a spot of trouble with Obama administration immigration enforcement officials at Homeland Security
by rounding up 13 illegal immigrants and trying to deliver them to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agency. One would think that ICE would be grateful to Sheriff Joe for doing their work for them.
16 illegals sue
Arizona rancher. An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal
immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to
violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border
Patrol, he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home.
Your Land Is Their Land.
Our southern border is so out of control you can now be sued by those illegally entering the country and trespassing
on your property. Illegal aliens, it seems, have a right to interstate travel.
Update:
Rancher ruling adds to
border debate. Arizona rancher Roger Barnett initially faced the possibility of paying $32 million to
compensate several illegal immigrants he stopped at gunpoint on his land. He walked away instead with a verdict that
rejected any notion he violated the trespassers' civil rights and affirmed that U.S. citizens can still detain aliens
crossing the border. What remains to be seen, though, is what impact the $77,800 in damages that a jury Tuesday
ordered Mr. Barnett to pay will have on America's larger immigration debate and the efforts of some illegals to get
compensation from a country they aren't even allowed to enter.
Older news and commentary:
Mexican soldiers enter U.S., hold agent
briefly. Four Mexican soldiers crossed into a remote area of Arizona and briefly held a U.S.
Border Patrol agent at gunpoint before realizing where they were and returning to Mexico, U.S. authorities
said.
Border
patrol agent held at gunpoint. A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night [8/3/2008] by
members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico
without incident when backup agents responded to assist. Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station
at Ajo, Ariz., said the Mexican soldiers crossed the international border in an isolated area about
100 miles southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who was not identified.
Illegals begin leaving Arizona as new
law approaches. For the first time, Mexican officials in Arizona admit there is hard evidence
illegal immigrants are preparing to leave the state because a new employer sanctions law is making it difficult,
if not impossible, for them to keep a job.
Arizona
slams door on illegal immigrants. As it has become the favorite entry point for undocumented
migrants trying to sneak into the United States, Arizona has become a laboratory for whether a state can
single-handedly combat illegal immigration. In recent years it has barred illegal immigrants from
receiving government services, from winning punitive damages in lawsuits and from posting bail for serious
crimes.
Scottsdale
Arizona cops ask citizenship proof. Police in suburban Scottsdale have begun routinely asking for
proof of citizenship from every suspect they arrest and turning those who are in this country illegally over to
federal immigration officials. The procedure was started Oct. 15, a result of the September killing
of Phoenix police officer Nick Erfle by an illegal immigrant, Erik Jovani Martinez.
Border
fence delay challenged. A California congressman yesterday called on Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff to override a ruling by a federal judge ordering the delay of construction of security fencing
along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona.
Two Towns Adopt English as the
Official Language. Less than one week after Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved making English
the official language of the state, two towns — Farmers Branch, Texas and Taneytown, Md. — declared
English as their official language Monday evening. Both measures call for the town government
to do official business overwhelmingly in English, with common sense exemptions consistent with
federal and state law, such as emergency services.
Man says he
illegally crossed border 4 times in 10 days. Aurelio Solorzano-Ovando, 35, told officials that
three of those crossings resulted in arrests by Border Patrol agents, who released him in Mexico. Deputies
arrested Solorzano-Ovando and 11 other undocumented immigrants Thursday in the far-west Valley on suspicion of
conspiring to smuggle themselves into the country.
Bill would make illegal immigrants
criminals. The Arizona House gave final approval Thursday night [5/25/2006] to a bill
that would criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants in the state and provide $160 million
for the effort.
Some
Mexican Migrants Turning to Bicycles. Many illegal immigrants no longer hike. They
bike. The 110-degree heat and rough terrain of the Arizona desert would exhaust the fittest of
cyclists, but these migrants are often middle-aged housewives or farmers, riding battered second-hand
bikes for 30 or 40 miles.
Sensing change, migrants rush to the border.
Mexicans are hurrying to Arizona anticipating passage of a guest-worker plan.
Arizona Weighs Options for
Border Patrol. As public frustration grows over the state's porous border with Mexico, the
once-rejected notion of using state police to supplement federal patrols is gaining traction. One
state lawmaker's plan includes $20 million for the Arizona Department of Public Safety to run a
100-member squad to operate surveillance equipment, construct border barriers, target drug and immigrant
smugglers and perhaps patrol the border.
Border Patrol
told to stand down in Arizona. U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered
not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters
patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the
effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.
Migrant crashes tax UMC
resources. Southern Arizona's only Level 1 trauma center expects to be "slammed" again at
any moment, as it was yesterday morning after a rollover crash in Santa Cruz County killed four illegal
immigrants. The nine most critically injured in the crash, all adults, were airlifted to University
Medical Center in Tucson early yesterday morning [4/20/2006].
Arizona
to Clamp Down Even Harder on Illegals. Four months after residents voted
to deny some government benefits to illegal immigrants, advocates for limiting immigration
are pressing lawmakers to enact even more restrictions on those who sneak into the country.
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