http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/14/justice-sanctuary-cities-are-no-arizona/?page=3
OK, so we don't have the money to fund our extra troop needs in Afghanistan, or to continue to extend unemployment benefits, but somehow Obama can justify yet another expensive trip to court. Have you ever noticed that no one ever states what the attorney fees come to for a year at the White House. That bill must be phenomenal, the White House sues over everything.
None of this would be up for this expensive discussion right now if the borders would have been closed up after 9/11 like they were supposed to be. It seems to me that should have been Homeland Securities first priority, oh wait, oh yeah it was.
They wasted billions on the expensive camera equipment that isn't working. A very large waste of taxpayers money and the southern border states still suffer from the governments lack of action.
This is not a personal choice for the governor or the people of Arizona, it's a measure to help ensure the safety of it's citizens. Not only from the physical harm of the drug wars, but from the further addition to their already overflowing economic hardships.
Don't judge them, they're only trying to survive this depression, just as we all are, by cutting out the extra expenses.
A week after suing Arizona and arguing that the state's immigration law creates a patchwork of rules, the Obama administration said it will not go after so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with the federal government on immigration enforcement, on the grounds that they are not as bad as a state that "actively interferes."
"There is a big difference between a state or locality saying they are not going to use their resources to enforce a federal law, as so-called sanctuary cities have done, and a state passing its own immigration policy that actively interferes with federal law," Tracy Schmaler, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., told The Washington Times. "That's what Arizona did in this case."
On Wednesday, two Republican senators -- Jim DeMint of South Carolina and David Vitter of Louisiana -- announced that they will introduce an amendment to a bill that would halt the Justice Department lawsuit by denying it federal funding.
