Well, the Arizona Republic again takes up the case for illegal alien amnesty this morning.  In an editorial hilariously captioned “Arizonans can help Obama,” the paper first observes that “[t]he nation’s shattered immigration system reveals itself in jagged shards across Arizona’s landscape…,” ignoring altogether the fact that the only thing broken has been the feckless effort to more vigorously enforce the laws against illegal immigrants unlawfully crossing over the border and purporting to have a “right” to stay here. 

Leading the federal snooze when the flow of illegals over the southern border was a tiny trickle compared to the flood it later became was U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Janet (”I’m-Concerned-Over-Trepidation-in-the-Illegal-Immigration-Community”) Napolitano.  And her insouciance regarding the problem grew only more profound after becoming Arizona Attorney General and then Arizona’s governor.  That’s right, kids, this is the same Napolitano who the Squatter at 1600 Pennsylvania has appointed to head up the nation’s Department of Homeland Security. 

Remember, this is the person who still doesn’t know that the crossing of the border without authority is (a) on a first offense, a misdemeanor, and (b) on a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and subsequent crossing, a felony.  Indeed, shortly after she was inserted into the position as Head PC Linguist at the DHS, she encouraged potential illegal immigrants everywhere by claiming: “… crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil.”

ANGGGKKK: Wrong.  As noted here last April, federal immigration law, 8 U.S.C. § 1325, specifically provides that the first time a person crosses the border illegally, he/she can be charged with a misdemeanor (by definition, a crime) and fined and/or imprisoned for up to 6 months. Moreover, 8 U.S.C. §  1326 specifies that if the same individual is removed or deported after a first offense and thereafter again crosses the border unlawfully - and for every subsequent deportation and re-entry - he/she can be fined and charged with a felony and upon conviction imprisoned for up to 2 years.

So, do you not feel safer already with Napolitano heading up DHS?

Thanks to her incompetence (along with the incompetence of a whole lot of other folks on both sides of the political aisle), one of the few individuals with the spine to actually enforce the laws is Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.  Arpaio - now under U.S. Justice Department “scrutiny” (c’mon, we all know it’s a politically-driven investigation) for “racial profiling” - may have lots of other problems, but taking a stand against illegal immigration in the face of the abdication on the issue by specimens like Napolitano is not one of them.  

The once-respected - a status long-gone - Republic editorialists also observe (this is really good) that “[s]tate and local officials bent on a quixotic effort to enforce federal law at state, city and county expense compound the trouble with responses that could result in racial profiling.”

Absent from this PC rationale aimed at facilitating amnesty for illegals is any explanation for why the enforcement of immigration laws by federal ICE agents is not racial profiling, but the same enforcement by Arpaio’s deputies - trained by the feds in the same procedures applicable to ICE officers - is racial profiling.

The fact is that, like all true liberals who cannot stand the thought of enforcing the immigration laws already on the books, the Arizona Republic supports, at the end of the day, recognition of a race-based immunity from arrest, prosecution and, under Napolitano’s goofy interpretation, even “civil” fines, for “suspected undocumented immigrants.” 

That immunity, if implemented through “reform,” will translate into amnesty, a “path to citizenship” as a reward for breaking the law, and yet more tax burdens on Arizonans.  In a post-reform America, look for calls for more money for illegal alien emergency healthcare, education of illegal alien’s children and incarceration of folks who have no desire to become Americans in the lawful way, including many who have no reluctance to kidnap, rob, burglarize, embezzle, ransom, assault and murder their way into the fabric of America.  And the Arizona Republic supports this “equality of outcome.”  Lunacy.

To all who voted for Obama: still happy with your “change”?    

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