The latest steps taken by the Department of Justice regarding Arizona’s SB 1070 constitutes a march towards civil unrest in court but it also represents the growing gap between what the majority of Americans think and the directives coming from this administration.
Truthfully, if we were able to see the same passion from the federal government in addressing the immigration problem as we do with them attacking Arizona’s SB 1070, perhaps Arizona’s legislature would not have needed to take the drastic step that the state has in the first place.
The Attorney General’s latest moves in preparation of a potential lawsuit against the Grand Canyon State only highlights the gap between the federal government’s willingness to address this immigration issue as more than a civil rights issues and Americans’ desire to have some renewed sense of decorum and order regarding immigration to the United States.
President Obama’s dispatching of National Guardsmen to our southern border comes on the heels of news of this impeding ramp-up of legality, a fight in federal courts that will prove to be another waste of taxpayer money in the collective attempt to protect the rights of non-citizens. There is an obligation that we have as Americans to honor the human rights of all people, yet the issue regarding SB 1070 in its current form centers primarily on allowing illegal immigration to maintain quid pro quo residency until the Democrats can foster enough votes to gain amnesty for some 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States currently. That is not worth the money, not when the issue is hardly resolvable via a hand-waving act of domestic clemency.
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Attorney General Holder’s directive (actually, moreso President Obama’s than anyone else’s) to chase down Arizona over their 2010 immigration law speaks to the widening gap between what the Obama Administration thinks and what America thinks.
We have already seen the difference between what America thought about the healthcare bill (“Obamacare”) and what the Democrat-driven administration was willing to do (both ethically and otherwise) in order to pass the bill earlier this year. This latest chasm shows again that the Obama Administration is willing to spend precious resources on fighting a philosophical battle on what a minority of Ivory-towered politicos think versus spending time and resources solidifying the will of Americans. With healthcare, it was the desire to keep Americans from paying fines for not having healthcare and taxing small businesses additionally because of the new health care bill. With immigration, it will be spending millions to litigate a case that, in essence, works to protect illegal immigration and select border-crossing criminals from being asked about their legitimacy in the United States only during a lawful stop, detention or arrest of an individual on another offense. In other words, Holder and the DOJ – and, by extension, President Obama – are willing to fight for a nation where a citi
