Borders

US Attorney General Eric Holder has said the Federal government may go to court to challenge the Arizona Immigration law. (Even though he hasn't even read it as of this posting.)

My question is: Since the Arizona law mirrors the U.S. Federal Statutes, does that mean throwing out Arizona's law would throw out the federal laws? I mean, it's not like the Feds (the guys on top, not the agents) are interested in enforcement anyway. Is this seen as an opportunity - not to protect innocent brown people from peacefully enjoying an outing for ice cream, but a way to open up the great untapped masses for democratic constituency? Man, have I become politically jaded! And understandably so. It's where you end up when news organizations actually report Arizona Law makes it a crime to be in the country illegally. Well, duh? Is this a new legal concept?

I don't know what a "demorat" is - but I get the gist of the text.

Want a laugh? Check out McCain's new strategy to get re-elected. John McCain is now Mr. Border Enforcement Candidate. During the Presidential campaign he begrudgingly promised to build the "damn fence" if the american people insisted on it. Basically that was just a way to get out of building the fence, because a McCain administration would claim lack of public interest in it. 80% just isn't high enough a percentage.

"Fight with me, my friends. Fight with me."
Los Angeles and Washington DC and a bunch of other bastions of liberal-thinking looniness are throwing "boycott" threats around. Like that's going to work. As usual the boycott will hurt those who don't like the law or those who work the low wage tourism and convention jobs. The people who support the Arizona law (all 80% of the population - including 2/3 of Latinos) will pretty much just say, "Good, we don't want that kind here anyway." "That kind" being the barking moonbats who try to make themselves important by making loud noises over any current leftist cause celebre. These boycotts never work. A few organizers get some publicity and a few gronala crunchers feel good about themselves but it never changes anything. One idiot organizer wants the LA Lakers to pack their own food when they go to Phoenix for the NBA Semifinals. That way they won't support the Arizona economy by buying food locally. I want to ask why aren't they boycotting the federal government? I repeat, the laws mirror each other. Oh yeah, federal entitlement money...forget I asked.

But the dumbest piece of news about the immigration law so far comes to us courtesy of Highland Park High School. The Superin-leftenat of Illinois High School District 113, Suzan Hebson, has cancelled the trip for the girls varsity basketball team to a tournament in Arizona next December. Supposedly the safety of the team was the major concern - yeah, right! Hebson also admitted that a trip to Arizona at this time "would not be aligned with our beliefs and values." In other words, Hebson's beliefs and Hebson's values. Hebson's political activism is running away with her sense of decency and fairness to the girls who have worked and fund-raised themselves right into a great experience for the varsity girls B-ball squad. Parents are ticked, the team is crushed and the country is shaking their heads over another liberal ideologue unilaterally inserting her own agenda in someone else's life. Hebson has made a career out of her political activism invading the school's cirriculum and policy. Several times she has made the students sign confidentiality agreements preventing them from speaking to their parents about the seminars and discussion groups the students were required to attend.

The Arizona law mirrors the U.S. immigration law. Arizona law enforcement officers have no powers above nor greater than the federal law enforcement officers. There is no new nazism here. You cannot stop and check someone's "papers, please" unless they do the same kind of crap that lets the cops check all of our papers. Crap like jaywalking, speeding, murder, that kind of stuff. Nobody has to carry a passport or a birth certificate. That's just exaggerated heated political rhetoric designed to evoke emotional kneejerk responses. If I was stopped for a crime and did not produce ID then I would be arrested until they could establish my identity. If there are warrants or other charges pending against me then the authorities would find out. It is the same here. But now if they arrest someone who turns out to be in the country illegally or undocumented or whatever term you like, then the Arizona police must act on it. They can't ignore it - like the federal government has for the longest time. There is nothing new here but the extension of requirement of enforcement to the officials who actually deal with the problem. Hebson's objections obviously aren't about the law, but rather the enforcement of current law. If Hebson was a straight shooter then her varsity girls shouldn't be able to participate in any tournament in this whole "rascist" country.

Wait! Forget I said that. I wouldn't want to give Hebson any new ideas. Or maybe she can sneak the Varsity Girls over into Mexico to play a tournament. They should be real safe there - especially when the government finds out they are there illegally.

UPDATE JUNE 11, 2010

FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty (excerpt):
Arizona's tough new immigration law doesn't even go into effect for another seven weeks, but lots of the state's 460,000 illegal aliens are leaving now.
USA Today reports that records from schools, businesses and individuals suggest that many worried legal and illegal Latinos are fleeing Arizona.
Schools in Latino neighborhoods show big drops in enrollment.
In one elementary school, 70 kids have been pulled out by their parents in just the last month... that's compared to seven students who left the school in the same period last year.
The superintendent says "they're leaving to another state where they feel more welcome."