How can the new Arizona immigration law be considered illegal by the Federal government if it is basically a mirror of federal laws already in place?

I don't think that it can be considered illegal unless there is some fine print somwhere in the bill that violates federal law. I think this is just another way for Obama to say look at me and work towards getting the hispanic vote if he decides to run for office again.

That will be determined by the courts, in spite of the fact that many feel that Arizona absolutely has the State's Right to undertake this law. I suspect that the courts will be politically circumspect, wanting to preserve the expansion of Federalism, whhich concurrently reduces states rights at each intersect in recent history.

I think that the federal courts will probably rule in favor of the Obama administration but I think that it's absolutely wrong. All the people of Arizona want is for the federal government to do their job!

As I stated before, although the Constitution specifically prohibits Congress from passing laws which is not specifically provided for by the constitution, the Congress and the Courts have decided that immigration is a federal function. They believe that the Constitution's Article 1 clause 9 gives them the authority to do anything regarding immigration. It does not.

However, the Courts will rule that Arizona cannot pass a law that co-opts the federal authority on immigration. If the Court battle turned on that specific point, I would support Arizona only so that other states can pass laws favoring aliens. [email protected].

You would think that the Obama administration would fully back trying to keep our borders secure, considering the following.

New York, N.Y. — According to the federal Enforcement Integrated Database, 125 individuals were apprehended along the border from fiscal year 2009 through April 20, 2010. These deportable aliens included two Syrians, seven Sudanese, and 17 Iranians, all nationals from the three Islamic countries that the U.S. government officially classifies as state sponsors of terrorism. Federal authorities also track "special interest countries" from which terrorism could be directed against America. Over the aforementioned period, 99 of those nations' citizens also were nabbed on the border.

They were two Afghans, five Algerians, 13 Iraqis, 10 Lebanese, 22 Nigerians, 28 Pakistanis, two Saudis, 14 Somalis, and three Yemenis. During FY 2007 and FY 2008, federal officials caught 319 people from these same countries traversing America's southwest border. Some such characters were confined in Arizona, which recently adopted a controversial law that lets cops ask the citizenship status of those they suspect of other possible violations.

WSB-TV recently publicized an April 15, 2010, "population breakdown" of immigrants detained at a facility in Florence, Ariz. Of the 395 males behind bars, 198 were Mexican, 18 hailed from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Perhaps these gentlemen simply want to pursue the American dream.

Worrisome signs suggest, however, that some may have arrived via blistering, cactus-adorned deserts so they could blow Americans to smithereens. Texas Border Patrol agents discovered, along with Iranian currency and Islamic prayer rugs, an Arabic clothing patch that reads "martyr" and "way to immortality. " Another shows a jet flying into a skyscraper."Members of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization, have already entered the United States across our southwest border," declares "A Line in the Sand," a 2006 report by the House Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee, then-chaired by Rep.

Michael McCaul, R-Texas. Even more disturbing are the uninvited terrorists and terror suspects that were arrested after entering America through our permeable underbelly.

Obama/DHS poised to grant amnesty for Hezbollah under Executive Order.

Just a month ago, it was a Homeland Security alert that Somalian jihadists would be crossing the TX border. Even now, while Obama’s ever busy legal counsel prepares briefs to file suit against Arizona for their recently enacted immigration law, DHS is considering circumventing existing immigration laws by using an Executive Order to defer action or parole to existing aliens present in the US illegally. An accusation, I might add that DHS doesn’t dismiss when they clarify it may just be “selective” reprieves to the segment of population holding expired visas.

And therein lies the amnesty that Obama and Napolitano will grant to Hezbollah… either by extreme stupidity, or willful ignorance. For the single reality that rises above the point/counterpoint immigration debate is the O’admin stalwartly rejects Mexico border battles as national security, preferring to spin it solely as immigration issue.

But NC’s Representative Sue Myrick may have fired the final shot across the O’admin’s bow, forever altering any ability to spin that perception. Rep. Myrick’s June 23rd letter to Janet Napolitano cites increasing evidence that Iran’s Hezbollah has more than an uncomfortably close relationship to the Mexican drug cartels terrorizing Arizona and other border states.

This documentation potentially, and likely, brings them under the protection of Obama and DHS’s proposed “selective segment of population” that can be granted amnesty with the EO.

Nor have we much of an ally in Mexican President, Felipe Calderon. Rep Myrick has been keeping a close eye on Calderon since his Mexican SOTU address back in Sept 2007, when he clearly stated his visions of Mexico knew no boundaries, and that “Mexico does not end at the border. Wherever there is a Mexican, Mexico will be there.”

From Calderon’s speech INRE US immmigration policies.

Calderon, enjoying the support of our own POTUS, is incensed at Arizona’s immigration law that allows law enforcement to demand proof of citizenship on any detention for probable cause INRE other tort violations.

In addition, Iran has been quietly, but persistently, nurturing increased trade ties with Mexico, holding regular meetings of a Tehran-Mexico City joint economic commission. In February 2009, Iran’s ruling clerics sent emissaries to Calderon for the first time since deposing of the Shah, focused on increasing “…political, cultural and economic arenas” between the two nations…. Just as Ahmadinejad as done with most of Mexico’s Central American neighbors.

By Nov 2009, Mexico and Iran had been trading “energy” experts.

To appeal to a poverty-ridden Mexico’s bottom line is a clever, and likely successful back door entry to more serious trade partners in the future. As Calderon sees the US as increasingly strict in immigration, with a consumer population that will (according to Obama and Geither) no longer be “dependable” on driving the world economy, Iran’s appeal is going to be elevated.

When a State Department spokesman was confronted with the Iranian activities – embarrassingly which were commencing simultaneous to Clinton’s and Napolitano’s own visit in April 2009 visit to Mexico – he/she was genuinely caught with his intel pants down.

Well, Mr. Lane… Ms. Clinton… and Ms. Napolitano… can we consider Iran’s relationship with Mexico now “forced onto the agenda” in light of all these Farsi tattoo’d illegals in detention?

And will the O’admin acknowledge that our southern border, and AZ, have irrevocably crossed that chasm from being about immigration, and is now firmly entrenched as a matter of national security?

Based on realities on the ground, any Obama EO on “selective reprieves” for expired visa holding “ who just may be from Iran, now reeks of amnesty for terrorists. And this shall not stand.

BS Artists Holder and Napolitano Will Focus On Enhancing Border Security and Removing ‘Criminal Aliens’ from this Country….

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