Yesterday, at a joint session of Congress, Filipe Calderon the President of Mexico addressed the joint body. In his address he openly criticized the new immigration law recently passed in Arizona. This law was passed by a duly elected legislature in Arizona and signed by the governor. To their great disgrace most, if not all, Democrats as well as President Obama’s cabinet members gave the Mexican president a standing ovation. These Members of Congress took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. Are these Members of Congress going to now claim, well… Mexico is a friend, not an enemy so we can actually help them wipe their feet on the Constitution?
An analysis done by Megyn Kelly, an anchor on Fox News and an attorney, compared federal law and Supreme Court decisions to the new Arizona law. She found that current federal law is tougher than what was recently passed in Arizona. Under federal law, police can stop anyone for any reason or no reason and ask them for their immigration status. In Arizona, a police officer can only ask immigration status if, while in the course of stopping the individual for another reason and they suspect the individual may be in the country illegally, for example, if they don’t have a valid driver’s license. If they can produce a valid driver’s license, the inquiry is over.
So let’s recap. Existing federal law is tougher than the recently passed Arizona law regarding asking an individual for proof they are here legally. The federal government is AWOL on enforcing immigration law. Arizona acted where the federal government failed. Attorney General Eric Holder calls the Arizona law discriminatory and a potential law suit target, but without actually reading the law. It is also clear, he does not know the federal laws he has sworn to uphold. Janet Napolitano also has not read the law and she has a sworn duty to secure the homeland. She also does not know the federal laws in place that she should be enforcing. Both of these individuals along with most, if not all, Democrats in Congress give a standing ovation to a foreign head of state who criticizes a properly passed state law. The whole lot of them are a disgrace to this country and should be booted out of office at the first opportunity.
