By Bob Beers Wednesday, April 28, 2010
This line from the first page of the Arizona Immigration Reform Bill, Senate Bill 1070, is what upsets most liberals:
NO OFFICIAL OR AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE MAY ADOPT A POLICY THAT LIMITS OR RESTRICTS THE ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS TO LESS THAN THE FULL EXTENT PERMITTED BY FEDERAL LAW.
The text is displayed in all caps in the original, and it is probably the portion that Obama calls “ill-considered and irresponsible”. How dare those uppity Arizonans, those “states-righters” think that they can dictate what laws will be enforced in their state? So what if Arizona has over 500,000 undocumented aliens sucking up resources needed for legal citizens? So what if the Mexican drug war has turned Phoenix into the ransom capital of the United States? So what if Washington D.C has essentially said to the Border States, “You’re on your own. We like the fact that the chaos in Mexico is turning you into a no mans land. This means more illegal votes for our guys”. The bill goes on to describe what the police are allowed to do and what they are supposed to do in enforcing this law. It also describes to those employers who have been giving jobs to illegals in preference to citizens just how costly that little bit of larceny will become.
Arizona was forced into doing the right thing and you know that the last thing the Democrat axis of evil (Obama-Pelosi-Reid) wants any government to do is “the right thing”. The 10th amendment to the US Constitution states that anything not specifically given as power or responsibility to the Federal Government is left to the states. It does not specify what is left for a good reason, and this situation is a perfect example. If and when the feds fall down on the job it is required by the constitution for the state to take over, just don’t expect a Supreme Court ruled by liberals to see that.
Liberal lies, Jim Crow Laws
As is typical, the liberal talking point is being repeated over and over again, “this evil law will bring back the days of Jim Crow. It is going to lead to (gasp!) Profiling!” How? Let me ask you this, when a TSA agent at the airport gate asks you for your ID, are they profiling? When you are asked to show your ID to cash a check, use a credit card or any other of the myriad ways we use identification, are we being profiled? So why is this so evil? I will tell you why, because it cuts into the planned ongoing destruction of the liberals’ chief enemy, a free prosperous United States. I have read the full text of the law. Nowhere within its 17 pages is anything that could be constituted as a mandate to racially profile in the manner that the hysterical left has determined. What it does do is force the legal law enforcement community to carry out their jobs and actually enforce our immigration laws. Oh the humanity!
This is the definition of the word, “illegal”: Not according to or authorized by law.” Seems quite simple to me, but the problem is that so many people have found a way to profit from folks coming into our country without using proper, authorized channels, including our past 4 presidents, that the idea of being right with our immigration law has become controversial. Folks, Arizona actually had to write a law that says illegal means ILLEGAL. What is wrong with this picture?
If we were to follow our constitution’s dictates we would be using our National Guard for the purpose they were created, as a national guard. Whether or not you choose to accept it, illegals do not have civil rights; they are criminals just as much as the thief who steals from a convenience store or jacks a car out of a parking lot is. Crossing the border without checking to see if it is ok with the authorities is as much a crime as what Bernie Madoff did; the cost is just a bit different. Bernie s
was less!
