Since SB1070 –the Arizona illegal immigration bill, was signed into law, there have been numerous people saying it will result in racial profiling and threatening to challenge it in federal court as unconstitutional. What do the following people have in common?
The Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, the top law enforcement officer and lawyer for the government, is considering suing on the ground of unconstitutionality. He has spoken publicly many times about how it would create “a slippery slope where people will be picked on because of how they look as opposed to what they have done”.
The Secretary of Homeland Security, the person concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens, and former Governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano, released a statement on SB1070. The statement read: “The Arizona immigration law will likely hinder federal law enforcement from carrying out its priorities of detaining and removing dangerous criminal aliens. With the strong support of state and local law enforcement, I vetoed several similar pieces of legislation as Governor of Arizona because they would have diverted critical law enforcement resources from the most serious threats to public safety and undermined the vital trust between local jurisdictions and the communities they serve. I support and am actively working with bipartisan members of Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level because this issue cannot be solved by a patchwork of inconsistent state laws.” She continues to agree with President Obama that Arizona’s immigrant trespassing bill is “misguided”.
State department spokesmen PJ Crowley and Michael Posner have talked critical of the AZ immigration law. Mr. Posner even apologized to China about human rights violations over the law. To CHINA!!! China has one of the worst human rights records in the world.
What do these people have in common? None of them has taken the time to read a law before publicly speaking out against it. It isn’t 2000 plus pages like the health care fiasco or the stimulus scheme, both of which law makers didn’t read prior to signing. It’s 10 pages!
These people have taken the time to criticize a law and say it is bad but haven’t taken the time to actually read or know what they are against. It shouldn’t surprise me though. The majority of Americans voted for someone they didn’t know anything about either.
Is this the “hope and change” America wanted?
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