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 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 . . .

From Ramírez via The Patriot Post . . .

Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed SB 1070 into law last Friday. Predictably, groups that favor relaxed enforcement of immigration laws, including the ACLU and others insist the law is unconstitutional. Even our misguided President declared it “misguided” and said the DOJ would look into the legality of the new law.

Most of the concerns that have been voiced are disingenuous and completely without merit. This is a summary of a rebuttal to those lies published in an editorial yesterday in the N.Y. Times, believe it or not. The author, Kris W. Kobach, is a law professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He served as Attorney General John Ashcroft’s chief adviser on immigration law and border security from 2001 to 2003.

Here are the major points and the rebuttal to each:

It is unfair to demand that aliens carry their documents with them.

The Arizona law simply adds a state penalty to what was already a federal crime. Moreover, as anyone who has traveled abroad knows, other nations have similar documentation requirements. Since the federal laws aren’t being enforced, this provision is necessary and fair.

“Reasonable suspicion” is a meaningless term that will permit police misconduct.

The Arizona law didn’t invent the concept: Precedents list the factors that can contribute to reasonable suspicion; when several are combined, the “totality of circumstances” that results may create reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed. Nobody will be randomly stopped unless there is this totality of circumstances suspicion.

If a police officer pulls over a minivan for a traffic violation and it is crammed with a bunch of people of any color or race, the officer may have reasonable suspicion that the driver is a ‘coyote’ and the passengers are being transported illegally in a known area of immigrant smuggling.

The law will allow police to engage in racial profiling.

Actually, Section 2 of SB 1070 provides that a law enforcement official “may not solely consider race, color or national origin” in making any stops or determining immigration status. In addition, all normal Fourth Amendment protections against profiling will continue to apply. In fact, the Arizona law actually reduces the likelihood of race-based harassment by compelling police officers to contact the federal government as soon as is practicable when they suspect a person is an illegal alien, as opposed to letting them make arrests on their own assessment.

It is unfair to demand that people carry a driver’s license.

Arizona’s law does not require anyone, alien or otherwise, to carry a driver’s license. Rather, it gives any alien with a license a free pass if his immigration status is in doubt. Because Arizona allows only lawful residents, native or alien, to obtain licenses, an officer must presume that someone who produces one is legally in the country.

State governments aren’t allowed to get involved in immigration, which is a federal matter.

While it is true that Federal authorities hold primary responsibility for immigration, the Supreme Court since 1976 has recognized that states may enact laws to discourage illegal immigration without being preempted by federal law. As long as Congress hasn’t expressly forbidden the state law in question, the statute doesn’t conflict with federal law and Congress has not displaced all state laws from the field, it is permitted. That’s why Arizona’s 2007 law making it illegal to knowingly employ unauthorized aliens was sustained by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

In sum, the Arizona law hardly creates a police state. It takes a measured, reasonable step to give Arizona police officers another tool when they come into contact with illegal aliens during their normal law enforcement duties.

The hysteria continues as open-border politicians condemn what amounts to actual enforcement of Federal statutes in existence. When the Feds let you down, do what you have to do to restore actual Law and Order.

Ramírez gets it right again . . .