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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - July 20, 2010
The War on Arizona
by: Pat Buchanan
Not since President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock
and JFK sent U.S. marshals to the University of Alabama
has the federal government seemed so at war with a state
of the union.
Arkansas and Alabama were defying U.S. court orders to
desegregate. But Barack Obama's war on Arizona is not a
war of necessity. It is a war of choice -- an unprovoked
war, undertaken not to defend constitutional or civil
rights, but to pander to his party's left and Hispanic
voters.
New Mexico's Gov. Bill Richardson, himself Hispanic, gave
the game away. At the Boston governors conference, he
assured colleagues, nervous over the administration attacks
on Arizona's immigration law, that "Obama is popular with
Hispanic voters, and this is going to be a popular move
with them nationally."
Eric Holder fended off criticism of his Justice Department
suit against Arizona that alleges the state usurped federal
responsibility by saying he has not ruled out a second suit
for "racial profiling."
Rather than work with Arizona to secure the border and send
the illegals home, the Obamaites are taking Mexico's side
against Arizona, and against the faithful execution of U.S.
law.
In a shocking and telling episode in the Rose Garden,
Obama stood by mute as Felipe Calderon attacked the
Arizona law as "discriminatory." The next day, Democrats
in Congress, with Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano joining
in, cheered the Mexican president's slander that Arizona
introduced "racial profiling to law enforcement."
There was a time when such an insult to a state of our
union, on U.S. soil by a foreign ruler, would have
produced a diplomatic crisis, if not pistols at dawn.
Some of us recall Ike walking out of a Paris summit with
Nikita Khrushchev rather than apologize for sending U-2s
over Russia, and JFK, after the Bay of Pigs, retorting to
Khrushchev that the United States did not need any lectures
on intervention from people "whose character is forever
stamped on the bloody streets of Budapest."
Democrats cheer as Arizona is attacked by a Mexican leader
whose country treats illegal entry as a felony and illegal
aliens with a brutality no American would tolerate.
And what exactly is at the heart of the Arizona law?
Simply this: Being in this country illegally is now a
misdemeanor in Arizona, as it is in U.S. law. And as a
1940 U.S. law requires resident aliens to carry their
green cards or work visas at all times, Arizona will
require police to request such identification if, in a
"lawful contact" -- a traffic violation or altercation
-- the officer entertains a "reasonable suspicion" the
individual may be here illegally.
Is this really Nazi Germany? Does this really justify the
hysteria? And if this is the Gestapo, why did Holder not
make this feature of the law the grounds for his Justice
Department suit?
Answer: Calderon and Obama notwithstanding, racial profil-
ing is prohibited by the Arizona law. Nor is there any
evidence racial or ethnic profiling will be condoned by
Arizona. The law has not even taken effect.
Unlike San Francisco and other towns that declare them-
selves to be "sanctuary cities" and refuse to cooperate
with U.S. immigration authorities, Arizona is not challeng-
ing or usurping U.S. law, but trying to assist the U.S.
government in enforcing the immigration laws.
Why is Arizona under attack for simply trying to help
enforce our immigration laws? Because the Obama administr-
ation cannot, will not or does not even wish to see those
laws enforced.
The U.S. government is today derelict in its constitutional
duty.
And this is approaching an existential crisis for America.
For there are in Arizona 450,000 illegal aliens, a popul-
ation of law-breakers in a single state approaching the
size of the entire U.S. Army.
Though we have 15 million Americans unemployed, near 10
percent of our workforce, with a higher share of African-
Americans jobless, we have 8 million illegal aliens hold-
ing jobs. And last year the administration handed out over
a million green cards and work visas to foreigners to come
and take jobs that would have gone to American citizens.
In communist countries in the Cold War, all understood
that the government did not represent the people. The
state was at war with the nation.
That idea is taking root in America -- the idea that our
government no longer seeks to represent us. And as one
watches Obama and Congress take the side of a foreign
leader attacking an American state, and the government
refuse to do its duty and defend the borders or send the
illegals back home, questions arise.
In this ongoing invasion of the United States that has
brought 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens into our
midst, whose side is the government on? Ours or theirs?
What is the reason for the refusal to secure our border?
Why do Democrats insist that the illegal aliens be put on
a "path to citizenship"?
Is the real objective the abolition of the old America we
grew up in?
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