There can only be one reason why Obama is suing Arizona: To win votes in upcoming elections.
The law is wildly popular. It mirrors Federal law except when it comes to profiling. Arizona restricts it. The Feds don’t.
But whatever the reason, it’s becoming increasingly clear to Americans that Obama is more concerned with his image than he is with fixing the problems facing the nation.
Posted in Immigration, Politics: National
Tagged 2010 Election, Arizona, Barack Obama, Corey Stewart, Eric Holder, Virginia
I’m torn, I admit it.
On one hand I desperately want to create a system that allows for healthy legal immigration easily and quickly. If a citizen of Mexico or Japan wants to make her way to America; let her. And be quick about it.
Yet I also acknowledge that current failure to enforce residence status creates incentives and burdens; we need to enforce current law.
The solution seems simple: Pass reform that extends the right of “free exchange”. That is, to negotiate freely the exchange of labor and compensation.
But selling one’s labor or participation in commerce are natural rights to which happenstance of birth location should be irrelevant. It should mean no more to these rights that someone is born today north or south of the Rio Grande river than it meant to our founding fathers that someone was born with or without a hereditary title.
I think everyone sees this as common sense.
The problem is going to come down to one simple roadblock. What do we do with the 11-12 million people who are here illegally today.
My solution is to give them legal resident status, apply for citizenship just like everybody else and move on; acknowledge that we had an imperfect system that created a wrinkle we don’t wanna see repeated.
It’s time. We need immigration reform.
If you needed a reminder that Obama hasn’t ever managed anything, this should serve as an illuminating example:
Clinton said in a television interview in Ecuador on June 8 that President Barack Obama had ordered the Justice Department to challenge the Arizona law because he did not believe states should set immigration policies, which could differ.
“President Obama has spoken out against the law because he thinks that the federal government should be determining immigration policy,” she said according to a transcript posted on the State Department website.
The big deal?
The Good Govn’a of Arizona has this to say:
“If our own government intends to sue our state to prevent illegal immigration enforcement, the least it can do is inform us before it informs the citizens of another nation.”
And she’s right.
Management 101.
Posted in Diplomacy, Immigration, Politics: International, Politics: National
Tagged Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics
A lot of what I write about here bashes Democrats. Partly because I have long associated myself with the Republican party; self-criticism is a gift.
Further, we have a radical Democrat in office backed by a liberal Congress in both chambers. And the last reason that I go after Dems more than Repubs is that the errors of the Leftists can impact economies and States. The errors of the conservatives, while damaging, typically are not impacting on the same scale.
With that said, I know I hammer the Left. But I can’t let this one slide.
Posted in Immigration, Liberty
Tagged North Carolina, North Carolina Politics, Politics, Republican
First we see Holder offer clues that they may change their stance on Miranda and now we see them offering insight into the Arizona immigration law.
I love CATO. And their blog. You should go read ’em both. Anyway, I am going to try to work out a piece every Tuesday that grabbed my attention over there and discuss my take.
This is the first installment.
Posted in Immigration, Liberty
Tagged Arizona, CATO, Democrat, Libertarian, Republican
Posted in Immigration, Liberty, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Democrat, Leftist, Legaal Resident, Liberal, National ID Card
How wonderfully eloquent.
Posted in Immigration, Liberty, Politics: International, Politics: National