Gov. Jan Brewer has filed a response in federal court to a Justice Department challenge of Arizona's tough new immigration law.
Brewer says President Barack Obama is trying to prevent Arizona from protecting its citizens with the Justice Department challenge, one of seven lawsuits seeking to have the new law blocked before it goes into effect July 29.
Brewer's filing seeks to have the Justice Department's challenge rejected.
The Tuesday filing says illegal immigration and a lack of comprehensive enforcement by the federal government has caused "crushing personal, environmental, criminal, and financial burdens" on Arizona.
The law requires officers, while enforcing other laws, to check a person's immigration status if there's reasonable suspicion that the person is here illegally.
forkedlift1 posted at 9:40 pm on Tue, Jul 20, 2010.
What I've seen of Jan Brewer since late April when she signed SB 1070 into law has been a very combative and partisan person, which I often thought not desirable traits for a person in a leadership position. It seems she was incapable of viewing or understanding anything other than from a political perspective, incapable of assessing matters from a legal, humanitarian or historical perspective.
Despite the actions or inactions of the past administration under G.W.Bush, despite the negative attention brought to Arizona after the enactment of SB 1070, in the last month or so, we've seen and listened to her blaming Obama for all of Arizona's problems, accepting no responsibility for the national furor and boycotts directed at our state over 1070.
The promised and expected lawsuits against the state representing innumerable plaintiffs (organizations, individuals and various governments) began piling up almost immediately. Newspaper reports noted that a fundamental argument in many of the cases was the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, that Arizona had exceeded its authority.
And one of the later lawsuits filed (on July 6) was by the federal government itself, its primary contention also being the Supremacy Clause.
With state politicians from a number of other states saying publicly that they too wanted to enact their own immigration laws as Arizona had done, I viewed this action as a necessity. The negligence of Congress in addressing certain immigration problems did not justify any one state usurping the powers of Congress.
I've got to say though, never in my wildest imagination would I have believed that Brewer would actually take her partisan politics into federal court, in her twisted written reply brief to the Justice Department's challenge.
"Brewer says President Barack Obama is trying to prevent Arizona from protecting its citizens with the Justice Department challenge."
THAT is what we have leading this state!
"You see judge, Senate Bill 1070 is all Barack Obama's fault."
coyote posted at 7:40 am on Wed, Jul 21, 2010.
We all need to remember that this is an election year. Things will go back to normal next year and we don't need all the hate to fire the elections.
It is appalling that we have no many people that can't think or won't think for themselves. Our society tends to follow and believe without any facts.
stan000 posted at 8:07 am on Wed, Jul 21, 2010.
It is nice to see Brewer and McCain acting serious about border issues, I know it is only for a few months leading up to the election but still it feels good.