Obama Tries to Thwart Border Control in Arizona
Illegal Immigrant rights protest in the US/Mexico border in Tijuana (Credit: Cesar Bojorquez)
Not surprisingly, we hear the Obama Administration wants to de-claw one of the best leaders in the fight against illegal immigration: Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona.
From the British Guardian:
Under a two-year-old agreement with the federal department of homeland security, Arpaio and his deputies had been authorised to enforce federal immigration law by arresting suspected illegal immigrants in the field and by checking the immigration status of people arrested on other offences.
But after drawing thousands of complaints and a civil rights investigation from the justice department, Arpaio was this week stripped of his federal authority to make immigration arrests. County attorney Andrew Thomas, one of Arpaio’s supporters, condemned the “setback in the fight against illegal immigration”.
The article defines the problem and the lack of action on the part of the federal government to do anything about it:
An estimated 12 million illegal immigrants live in the US. The federal government is virtually paralysed over how to react
Yes, it’s “paralysed” because it’s too beholden to special interests and political correctness. Too many in BOTH parties are too gutless to risk offending people who are in our country illegally in the first place along with those who aid and abet this lawbreaking and lawlessness.
Not Sheriff Arpaio, though. He’s going to continue doing the federal government’s job for it using state law as his authority (newsflash: states aren’t powerless; the federal government is a servant of the states, not the other way around).
For his part Arpaio has promised to continue chasing illegal immigrants using state laws. In an angry press conference, he called US homeland security officials “liars” and said he would personally drive those caught on the streets to the border if federal officers refused to take arrested illegal immigrants into custody. “I’ll take a little trip to the border and turn them over to the border,” he said.
If we had some federal officials with the guts of Joe Arpaio, we could clean up the illegal invasion in short order, finally gaining control over our own borders and ridding our country of a very serious criminal element.
But that isn’t going to happen with the likes of Barack Obama and his band of anti-Americans at the helm, and it wouldn’t happen if we elected appeasers from the Republican Party like John McCain (there’s a big reason the GOP lost the White House in 2008, and he’s it) or Senator Lindsey “Grahamnesty” Graham (R-SC), either.
We need a president and members of congress who understand the importance of maintaining the integrity of our borders and our laws. No other kind of leader will do.
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