They come in with the tide . . .

Last week, Judge Susan Bolton, the judge hearing the Arizona Immigration Law case, said this:

“Why can’t Arizona be as inhospitable as they wish to people who have entered or remained in the United States?” U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton asked in a pointed exchange with Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler.

“How is there a preemption issue?” the judge asked. “I understand there may be other issues, but you’re arguing preemption. Where is the preemption if everybody who is arrested for some crime has their immigration status checked?”

Yet in a ruling today she noted this:

[T]he United States has demonstrated that it is likely to succeed on its claim that the mandatory immigration verification upon arrest requirement contained in Section 2(B) of S.B. 1070 is preempted by federal law. This requirement, as stated above, is likely to burden legally-present aliens, in contravention of the Supreme Court’s directive in Hines that aliens not be subject to “the possibility of inquisitorial practices and police surveillance.” 312 U.S. at 74. Further, the number of requests that will emanate from Arizona as a result of determining the status of every arrestee is likely to impermissibly burden federal resources and redirect federal agencies away from the priorities they have established.

That last part (highlighted) is a crock. Everyone knows that the Feds are NOT doing their job. How is doing the job going to overload them?

The judge, a Clinton appointee, is using judicial fiat to reinvent the law. Moreover, she invokes a 1941 SCOTUS ruling - Hines -which is an entirely unrelated decision regarding immigration. I wonder what (or who) caused her to reverse what she was saying just last week?

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer promised to appeal the decision in the Ninth Circuit court (which will probably agree and rule for the injunction) and to the Supreme Court if necessary. Governor Brewer said “It’s just a “bump in the road.” and “This is far from over.”

As we prepare our new home in the Copper State, it is with great interest as we watch the events unfold with respect to the new Arizona Immigration Law, SB 1070. it appears that there is a trend where aliens there illegally are taking action to vacate the premises. In effect, the bill is having the desired effect.

Via Yahoo:

The U.S. government estimates 100,000 unauthorized migrants left Arizona after the state passed an employer sanctions law three years ago requiring companies to verify workers’ status using a federal computer system. There are no figures for the number who have left since the new law passed in April.

Some are heading back to Mexico or to neighboring states. Others are staying put and taking their chances.

In a sign of a gathering exodus, Mexican businesses from grocers and butcher shops to diners and beauty salons have shut their doors in recent weeks as their owners and clients leave.

Don’t get us wrong, we have nothing against foreign food, cultures and customs. We just think that if you want to enjoy the prosperity and freedoms in our country, you should obey the laws and sign the guest book on the way in. That being said, since most aliens here illegally have ignored our laws, we’re hoping that the exiting Arizona numbers jump significantly greater than the estimate since the employer sanctions went into effect. Millions, maybe?

The rest of the states need to enact the appropriate protection as well.

Federal Judge Susan Bolton who is presiding over the hearing on Arizona SB 1070, the immigration enforcement law, wonders why the DOJ would ever pursue the law as a Federal preemption case.

“Why can’t Arizona be as inhospitable as they wish to people who have entered or remained in the United States?” U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton asked in a pointed exchange with Deputy Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler. Her comment came during a rare federal court hearing in the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer (R).

Bolton, a Democratic appointee, also questioned a core part of the Justice Department’s argument that she should declare the law unconstitutional: that it is “preempted” by federal law because immigration enforcement is an exclusive federal prerogative.

“How is there a preemption issue?” the judge asked. “I understand there may be other issues, but you’re arguing preemption. Where is the preemption if everybody who is arrested for some crime has their immigration status checked?”

Captain Ed at Hot Air speculates that the Feds will get laughed out of court sooner than later.

Captain Kickass and the jackals in the Administration in D.C. are still holding our border security hostage for “comprehensive immigration reform” (amnesty, actually). Arizona Governor Jan Brewer posted this on her website today:

PHOENIX –– Earlier this month, Governor Jan Brewer sat in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama to discuss the critical issue of border security. The Governor personally related to the President the concerns of millions of Arizonans over the lack of security on Arizona’s southern border. During their visit, President Obama committed to present details, within two weeks of their meeting, regarding his plans to commit National Guard troops to the Arizona border and commit to spend $500 million in additional funds on border security.

Two weeks have come and gone and still it’s all talk and no action. (more)

Watch the one minute video below.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer answered a letter from Senator Charles Schumer (D - NY) with a letter of her own. In it, she wrote the following comparison:

“Calling for comprehensive immigration reform before securing the border is like asking for comprehensive energy policy reform before stopping the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.”

I love the simple logic of stopping two types of leaks of disastrous proportion with identical procedures - plug the leaks first.

Read her letter - it contains an outline of her immigration plan.

I read the entire Arizona Immigration Law, SB 1070, today. Throughout the entire bill, there is language invoking the laws of the United States as a guideline for the law. In other words, they are NOT inventing any new or bizarre anti-immigration laws - they’re just requiring that the Federal Laws be followed under the new Arizona statute.

As for racial profiling, the language below appears in every major subsection of the new law. President Obama, his cabinet members, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, most major media and all the Democrats are lying to you when they say the new law targets a specific race or creed.

A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE MAY NOT CONSIDER RACE, COLOR OR NATIONAL ORIGIN IN IMPLEMENTING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBSECTION EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ARIZONA CONSTITUTION.

Go ahead - READ IT and see.

Via Power Line (with minor edits):

Repeated attacks on the citizens of Arizona by the Obamination and many others have done nothing to dim Arizona’s support for immigration law enforcement. On the contrary: a remarkable 71 percent of Arizona voters now support that state’s new immigration law, up from 64 percent last month. And Governor Jan Brewer has jumped out to a 13-point lead over her likely Democratic opponent, which means that she is doing far better with the electorate than–to take just one example–the Obamination. That’s not surprising; voters like executives who actually support and defend the people who elected them.

Image found at Jawa: Somewhere in Arizona . . .

Via Fox News: Arizona can play the game too . . .

Arizona Official Threatens to Cut Off Los Angeles Power as Payback for Boycott

If Los Angeles wants to boycott Arizona, it had better get used to reading by candlelight.

That’s the message from a member of Arizona’s top government utilities agency, who threw down the gauntlet Tuesday in a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa by threatening to cut off the city’s power supply as retribution.

Gary Pierce, a commissioner on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission, wrote the letter in response to the Los Angeles City Council’s decision last week to boycott the Grand Canyon State — in protest of its immigration law — by suspending official travel there and ending future contracts with state businesses.

Read the rest.

Payback is a bitch, Angelinos. I hope that San Fran, Austin, San Diego and Seattle get the message. Arizona will not be intimidated.

Sign the Petition. Note: this is a different petition than the one posted here before.

Via The Patriot Post:

Immigration Front: DMV Helping Illegals

In the midst of absurd liberal cries of Nazism following the passage of the new Arizona immigration law, four employees of the California Department of Motor Vehicles were arrested for conspiring to sell false driver’s licenses and registrations to, among others, illegal immigrants. They were charged with grand theft, illegal computer access, bribery, and using documents to conceal immigration status, but perhaps they should be thanked for exposing yet another troubling aspect of illegal immigration. These DMV employees, no doubt, were not going to do background checks on those to whom they were issuing falsified documents — whether those who had come to the U.S. to work, or those who had come here to conspire against us.

I am sure you’ve seen this elsewhere but just in case you haven’t, you can see how our Joke of a President just doesn’t get it . . .