Now the fight really begins. On the one side are those who believe the United States is a nation of laws. On the other side are those who believe in enforcing only the laws with which they agree. On the one side are those who believe that if the Federal Government does not carry out its Constitutional duties, the States have the right to do so. On the other side are those who will pad their political pockets any way possible. Obama verses Arizona.
The President’s Justice Department has filed a law suit in federal court in Phoenix asking that Arizona’s immigration law be blocked and declared unconstitutional. Arizona intends to stand and fight. Arizonans are fed up with the flood of illegal immigrants coming across the border with Mexico which has brought crime, drugs, gangs, and a host of other problems with it. Obama claims the enforcement of Arizona’s law will “cause the detention and harassment of authorized visitors, immigrants and citizens who do not have or carry identification documents”. One would think there has been plenty of time for citizens and legal visitors to collect such documents. There has been more than sufficient notice. Illegal immigrants obviously have a problem since they are “undocumented”. But, no one is to be stopped and questioned unless there has been an observed unlawful activity in the first place. Read the Arizona law. It is perfectly clear.
This past week it was reported that six or seven bullet slugs fired across the border from a battle between a drug cartel and police in Mexico slammed into a government building in El Paso, Texas. One of the bullets passed through a window. Only a miracle prevented a US citizen from being hurt or killed. The violence along the Mexican side of the border has already spilled over into the United States. In many of the areas of northern Mexico along the US border, the cartels are in control. It was reported recently that look-outs for drug traffickers and “coyotes” already occupy key positions along the US side of the border. They are alleged to be better equipped than our border patrols with the latest in surveillance technology and weapons making pursuit more dangerous evading capture easier.
The time has long past that all illegal immigrants are only crossing the border to seek a living and care for their families. Many of them have, but there are too many now that seek to do harm. There are too many that seek to bring in drugs, crime, and even terrorism. It is time to secure the border with Mexico. Obama promised 1200 National Guardsmen to help with border security. Not one has shown up to date. President Obama has not delivered. Even if the 1200 came, it is woefully inadequate, say people in the Border States.
Maybe the law passed in Arizona is grossly inadequate. Maybe the border with Mexico should be militarized and the illegal door slammed shut securely and completely. It would be only then that this country could begin the process of weeding out the criminal and dangerous among the illegal immigrants and send them straight back to whatever country they came from. It is only then that the discussion about what might be possible with illegal immigrants who have otherwise been good and contributing “citizens” can begin. Until then….. GO ARIZONA!