He won’t secure the border — But, he’ll sue states that do.

The radical Obama Administration will file suit against Arizona over their new immigration law that upholds federal law. Governor Jan Brewer heard the news first yesterday from Ecuadorean television.

President Obama broke his word with Governor Brewer. He said he’d get back with the Arizona governor within two weeks about sending the national guard to the border.
He didn’t. But, he will sue her state.

FOX News reported:

The Obama administration plans to file suit challenging Arizona’s immigration law, officials told Fox News on Friday.

The confirmation comes after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview with a TV station in Ecuador earlier this month that the administration would challenge the law in court, though officials had long said the issue was under review.

Administration officials initially would not confirm Clinton’s statement. But an official told Fox News on Friday that while the review is still underway, the decision has already been made that a Department of Justice suit will be filed. The administration at this point is just building its case.

Another official said there are still “substantial” issues to address and work out before the Justice Department knows that it has a strong enough case to file a lawsuit. The official said the department intends to file suit, but that any court action is contingent on the final review.

Clinton’s announcement was met with outrage Thursday by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the law. Brewer told Fox News she’s ready for a fight.

71% of Arizona voters support their new immigration law.

 

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  1. Serious question: When was the last time the federal government sued a state for making a law to protect its citizens? Has it ever been done, and if so, what was the outcome?

  2. Another official said there are still “substantial” issues to address and work out before the Justice Department knows that it has a strong enough case to file a lawsuit. The official said the department intends to file suit, but that any court action is contingent on the final review.

    In other words this is all Huffnpuff from Captain Wonderful.

  3. Guess they’re making sure the “boots are on the throat” of Arizona.

    Full kick-a$$ mode.

  4. Is it Friday afternoon already?

  5. kansas #2 – ““substantial” issues to address and work out…” means – can they stack the court in time.

  6. Add to that the OTHER legal news from the administration:

    The Obama administration will argue that the health insurance mandate contained in Obamacare IS A TAX in order to prevent lawsuits challenging it. In order to get Obamacare passed, the argument was that the mandate included a PENALTY for those not in compliance. NOW, once Obamacare has passed, the argument is that the penalty for not complying with the mandate IS A TAX, and so cannot be challenged legally.

    LIAR

  7. Illegal immigration is like the oil spill. It keeps pouring across our borders and the Obama administration is not only useless but actually gets in the way of those trying to address the problem.

    This is the most incompetent administration ever.

    Now we see what affirmative action leads to: disaster.

  8. Time for Arizona to get a writ of mandamus against the feds. Basically such a writ orders a government entity to “to do or forbear from doing some specific act which that body is obliged under law to do or refrain from doing” — that is, to do fulfill the obligations of their office.

  9. is any one surprised!!
    the Dark Side *(Lucifer’s kids) -bho-h clinton-ayers-alkinsky- et al- cannot tell the truth-it is not in them!!!
    C-CS

  10. Sorry, “to fulfill”

  11. Wow!. Obama and his henchmen are out to destroy this country and remaking them. Brewer has been HAD. They need that 25 millions illegals to get re-elected. The question is do Obama have enough slash fund to bankroll on 2010 and 2012?

  12. Obama and his adminstration support every single crime that these illegals commit while they are here. Rape, murder, drug crimes, human trafficing etc. OBAMA SUPPORTS THAT NOT AMERICAN CITIZENS.

    Kind of makes me wonder is it because he is not an American? Why would he want to be the leader of a country he HATES with all of his might?

  13. Jimmy Carter is safe at home. Obama is, without a doubt, the worse president EVER!!!!!! Even worse than Woodrow Wilson and FDR.

  14. The question is do Obama have enough slash fund to bankroll on 2010 and 2012?

    Yes, it’s the $20 billion to be extorted for BP.

  15. November can’t come soon enough. With checks and balances in Washington, we will have some recourse against these anti-American scum.

  16. Are they incompetent, or do they know exactly what they are doing?

  17. “AND IN LATER NEWS…President Obama met with Mexican President Felix Corleone and agreed to an offer he could not refuse–ceding Arizona in to Mexico…
    It solved the border issue, the law-suit issues, and Puerto Rico is available for a replacement state so the flag need not be altered.”

  18. Oh yeah, Obama just ceded 3500 acres of wilderness reaching 80 miles into Arizona to Mexican militias who escort human traffickers, drug traffickers, kipnappers, carjackers, murderers, and sundry other law breakers who come here to break the law and then hop back over the border to hide in Mexico. These are NOT Immigrants no matter how hard the left wants to paint them as immigrants, illegal or otherwise.

  19. ++

    eh, might as well post this here too..

    meanwhile Hillary is assuring Mexico that
    Arizona will pay for defending it’s border..

    [Recent comments from a June 8th interview that Secretary of state Hillary Clinton gave to a TV station in Ecuador are getting fresh attention in the debate of over Arizona’s controversial immigration law. In the interview Clinton noted that that the Justice Department will be challenging the Controversial immigration law in court but the Department says they are
    still reviewing the law.

    According to a transcript Clinton told the interviewer on station NTN 24 “President Obama has spoken out against the law because he thinks that the federal government should be determining immigration policy. And the Justice Department, under his direction, will be bringing a lawsuit against the act.”]

    heard via talk radio, this is big news in Mexico, where they are
    more or less feeling vindicated for supporting illegal invasions..

    ==

  20. Eff Obama.

  21. Let’s start calling for Barry’s resignation loud and clear and we will start a tsunami. I believe there would be an epic show of support.

  22. Obama thinks he can kick a girl’s ass.

  23. Team obama does not like Repbulicans, plain and simple. Notice how he is also treating Gov. Jindal, another Republican.

  24. H. Clinton:
    “the federal government should be determining immigration policy”

    Allowing ‘undocumented’ human traffickers, drug traffickers, kidnappers, carjackers, murderers, etc. flow across the border freely IS NOT AN IMMIGRATION POLICY!

    It’s absolutely amazing how communists lie and twist the meaning of anything to suit their immediate needs.

  25. buy more ammo!!

  26. It is not the business of the Executive Branch to determine policy. Our immigration laws are clear and have been passed into law by the Legislative Branch as laid out in our Constitution. It is the business of the Executive to insure that the laws are enforced as they are written until they are rewritten some other way.

    If they fail to uphold and enforce the laws as they are written, then each and every one of them is in direct, clear violation of their Oath of Office and should be impeached.

  27. Obama needs to be impeached for violation of his oath of office and this will not happen until we the people get the House back.
    In the mean time can’t the states sue the federal government for dereliction of duty for failing to secure the borders?

  28. The good citizens of LA celebrate the Lakers win. These are the same people that are boycotting AZ fro AZ1070.
    http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/sports/Losers-Take-to-Streets-After-Lakers-Win-96649189.html

  29. ++

    ht Chisum in a previous thread

    [But he made some promises about some deployment of National Guard,
    and you were going to hear within two weeks what the federal government — what President Obama had decided. We asked you last night when we were Arizona. You still hadn’t heard, but you said today was the last day for the two- week period. Have you heard anything today?

    BREWER: We have not. And you know, I was so hopeful. I really was hopeful that today that during early hours that we would hear from the Obama administration. But unfortunately, now it is night and we have
    not heard a word in regards to what they’re going to deploy or how
    many troops we’re going to get. And I am really disappointed.
    ]

    that verifies what i had heard about not a one of our
    troops being deployed to the border as yet.. *sigh*

    [lets just hope they aren't being
    flown in from Venezuela, uhg..]

    (i don’t believe it’s anything but a ruse to distract from their
    (Obama/Chavez/et al) real plan, but hey, what do i know)..

    ==

  30. I hate to break this news and perhaps I should be more gentle, but ranting about this here or in other echo chambers isn’t going to stop them from doing what they want to do.

    In case anyone wants to do something effective and is willing to do some work, follow the steps here.

  31. Rachelle #9

    Yeah, a lot of things are ‘spewing’ under Zero.. illegals, oil, debt, unemployment.. and Muslims in TSA.

    “But — and here’s the kicker — everywhere I went there were Muslims working the security. Muslimas in hijab checking boarding passes. Muslims at the X-ray machines. Muslims wanding people. And in Philly I saw a Muslim guy doing the security screening on an entire family of Muslim travelers — women and girls in hijab, Dad in his little beanie, kids straggling along.”…

    Do we see a pattern here? He is working backwards from a preplanned scenario in every area with the intent to change the US the way he wants it.

  32. .. Putting aside the anger I still feel towards that sorry bloke,Tony Hayward,yesterday,as I watched the arrogant, tyrannical likes of Waxman & that disgrace, Stupak, lead in the public ‘caning’ of their once favored pet, BP, I couldn’t help but think that in so many ways, their boorish incivility and total lack of human grace, felt unmistakingly similar to the way they treat all the ‘little’ Americans who don’t cower in their presence or bow to their ‘glorious’ will.. so did Governor Brewer think these thugs were going to follow protocol?? I don’t think so.. these thugs don’t operate on rules.. they operate on results. Well, get this, Madam Foggy Bottom: the Iron Maiden of AZ doesn’t bow to you or to your boss.. she’s kryptonite to Obama.. so, BRING IT ON.. We are people ruled by laws, not by laws of RULERS!…. Stand with Jan Brewer and with Arizona.

  33. I hope Arizona has the cash to defend itself, it will take millions over time.

    Would have been simpler to have mimicked the Oklahoma law and the results would have been the same.

    Destroy the reason for them to come and they won’t come. Already, even before the convoluted law is even on the books, a 100,000 have reportedly left. Not because of the threat of arrest, they are already here, already entrenched in the community, already in violation of the law that if they were caught would be exercised. So why leave? No jobs. At least that was their worry. Can you imagine how much more effective that would have been if the employers were threatened with felony arrest? There would be NO jobs of any kind.

    Now as far as the law enforcement and the national park border…

    I’m not sure, but if the feds admit they can’t control the border of a national park touching Mexico, but that park is inside a county, can’t the Sheriff assemble a task force to go have the drug traffickers moving drugs across the border into the US regardless of location?

    Drug possession, weapons possession and drug trafficking are state charges, as well as federal. Is being in possession of drugs in a federal park inside a state or county a state offense along with a federal? Seems to me he’s punting that ball over politics. If he is, that is a violation of the oath he took to his citizens in that county. Frankly, I’m a little ashamed for him if he did.

    But then again, I’m old fashioned. I was hired to catch bad guys when I signed on, not kick someone in the knee over politics.

  34. Radical Obama Regime Will File Suit Against Arizona

    Fixed that title …

  35. I fear what is to come. When People lose confidence in their govt. (Katrina, BP spill, illegals), then the govt. starts using force to control the People. The polls show over & over the People want illegals out of the country, yet the govt. does just the opposite of the People’s desires. That’s dangerous.

    There’s a new book out that about a small town in America who does stand up to federal force & unites the whole country. It’s a great read & I recommend it. It’s that good.
    http://www.booksbyoliver.com

  36. If there is a revolution in America, I think it might start in Arizona.
    Like I always say, enforce all the laws or don’t enforce any laws.

  37. ++

    ht Laura Ingraham flashback:

    “I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the
    procedural rules are.” – Obama on March 17, 2010.

    ==

  38. Once again, we shouldn’t be surprised, the communists passed their deathcare bill in spite of months of protests and are pursuing their tyrannic agenda in spite of the rejection of the majority, so, whatever they are doing shouldn’t make headlines. The only way to stop them is the second amendment because tea parties and elections will not undo the damage and will not save America from communism.

  39. Bob
    June 18th, 2010 | 4:13 pm | #26
    Obama thinks he can kick a girl’s ass.

    He can think whatever he wants to think but I know I can take him. As I still ask my brothers when it’s called for, “When was the last time you were beat up by a girl?” Well, Oilbama, how long has it been?

  40. Isn’t this treason?

  41. ++

    Buffalobob @ 4:40 pm #32

    ObamAlinsky would be proud..

    video clip

    ["As a matter of fact, we have a police officer injured with a broken nose from an object thrown. We've made multiple arrests, we used overwhelming force, we had a maximum number of police officers deployed here to clear out the crowds around Staples Center, and we're still in the process of doing that."]

    ==

  42. Ironic,

    Our Sec of State declares War on Arizona from Ecuador.

    I wonder if anyone inthe current admin weighs consequences before making these decisions.

    I would much prefer they don’t and they are just incompetent, because if they do I truly fear for my Country.

  43. seesalrun, to me, their lack of concern about consequences of their actions and words are indicators that they have no plans to cede power, that, instead, they have plans to remain in power for life.

  44. “while the review is still underway, the decision has already been made”

    and

    “still “substantial” issues to address and work out before the Justice Department knows that it has a strong enough case…”

    **************

    Translation: They really want to file suit, if they can ever figure out how to state a claim what won’t be poured out.

  45. ++

    down with dems @ 3:10 pm #7

    bottom line: EVERYTHING, and i do mean everything, including the air
    we breathe
    will be TAXED, it’s SLAVERY, but the NWO calls it SAVING PLANET EARTH..

    yes, that IS how DUMB they believe we are..

    Sojourner @ 5:12 pm #38

    Kudos!!

    24AheadDotCom @ 4:55 pm #35

    i don’t think a majority of people realize that yet.. *sigh*

    archer52 @ 5:18 pm #39

    re: [I’m old fashioned. I was hired to catch bad guys when
    I signed on, not kick someone in the knee over politics.]

    Amen to that..

    unfortunately there’s a new breed being bred,
    sooner or later your kind will cease to be.. :-(

    [OT.. via above link: So how did Al Gore become the world champion for climate change? Back when he was a student of Dr Roger Revelle at Harvard in the 1960’s, he was exposed to the early science of climate change and the “keeling curve”, named for Dr. Charles Keeling, which charted build-up of atmospheric CO2. Prior to his death however, Dr Revelle realized his conclusions had been wrong. I found an excellent short newsclip explaining this. [watch video]

    ==

  46. I believe that a valid countersuit could be filed by Arizona. By listing in detail how the executive branch of the federal government has not upheld and enforced the laws passed by the legislative branch of the federal government, and the number of years this has gone on, accompanied by the difficulties encountered by Arizonans over the years, including growing financial costs being borne by Arizonans and increasing rates of crime by illegal immigrants in certain areas, culminating in the recent murder of the rancher, Arizona could paint a devastating picture of federal malfeasance that could not be denied. This would be followed by the argument that the federal government has abdicated its responsibilities over border control in Arizona, leaving the state to fend for its citizens.

    I believe it is possible that the state of Arizona could win this case, and certainly could seriously damage the federal government in the court of national public opinion.

    In the words of a certain leader a few years ago,
    “Bring it on!”

  47. And yet more of our hard earned, government taken tax money will be spent undermining a state’s right to defend itself when the federal government refuses to perform that same job as defined in the Constitution (see Article 4, Section 4).

    That writ of Mandamus looks interesting.

    Do we have a constitutional lawyer among us here to say this could be effective? (On the surface, it looks to me to be just a mechanism between courts.)

  48. And one of the examples of federal misconduct would be the current broken promise by Obama to send staff to Arizona within two weeks of their last meeting.

  49. I hope Arizona takes this golden opportunity to
    kick the federal government right in the nuts!

  50. AuntieMadder June 18th, 2010 | 7:04 pm | #51

    Dear Auntie,
    Silly me, my suspicions only went as far as ruining the Gulf Economy, picking up an oil Company or two and passing Cap and Trade. Perhaps it’s the same thing. Destruction of the Republic as we know it.

    I cry nightly for my Country.

  51. The disastrous Democratic Party’s appointed Homeland Security, once bragged about building a 51′ ladder to overcome any 50′ fence to protect the border.

    We know the Democratic Party is foolishly undermining the USA for their own petty greed.

    This is no surprise, nor was the incompetent Hillary Clinton revealing the expected ugly truth on foreign soil.

  52. seesalrun
    June 18th, 2010 | 8:21 pm | #59

    I’m sorry. I didn’t know you were only talking about the current BP oil gusher crisis. I didn’t mean to direct conversation to any worries that weren’t already being discussed.

    Fwiw, I don’t cry but my heart is perpetually heavy and has been since fall 2008. And I worry a lot. I’ve never been afraid for the US and our safety and security as a nation and as citizens before, but now I do…constantly.

  53. powder is ready, no need to buy more. stage is set and waiting for the sacraficial idiot.
    You have no idea of the level of resistance from the mainstream bubba. bring it on, you piece of liberal idealism. the cold hard facts will extinguish your ideals very quickly. powder is dry.

  54. That should have read: I’ve never been afraid for the US and our safety and security as a nation and as citizens before, but now I am…constantly.

  55. Mark Levin said his Landmark legal Foundation is ready to take this on as soon as Gov. Brewer calls.

  56. It would seem to me that the federal government can only bring suit against those portions of law which are in conflict with federal law. In my 25 minutes of blistering internet research I see no reason why states can be compelled to not uphold law that mirrors federal law, simply because the federal government chooses not to do so (uphold its own law).

  57. Is it just me, or does it seem that Obama wants to go to ‘war’ with Arizona? And if the coast guard continues to hold up oil sucking ships in the gulf, perhaps Louisiana will have a fight on its hands with this administration. And, New Jersey union members threatening Gov. Christie (remember the ‘prayer’ incident)? If things continue as they are now, seems Martial Law could be imposed by Nov. elections and continue through 2012? Just a thought.

  58. Jennifer, between not sucking up the gushing oil, half-@$$ed cleaning of what washes ashore, and the dispersement product that, from what I’ve read online, BP continues to dump in the Gulf (at night, under the cover of darkness), as well as rumors of evacuation, I’ve wondered if the plan is to displace Gulf coast state voters late this summer. The result would be either A) a huge number of voters, from mostly conservative-voting states, wouldn’t be allowed to vote under current law(s) due to proof of residence and precinct issues or B) to protect the right to vote for those displaced, the Motor Voter law would be passed. Either of those scenarios would stack the deck in favor of Gulf coast state Demonrats.

  59. Robert
    June 18th, 2010 | 9:14 pm | #65
    In my 25 minutes of blistering internet research…

    Heehee! That’s funny.

  60. My take last week:

    “The attacks on Israel are cut from the same cloth as those against Arizona. The battle is being waged in the court of public opinion, not in actual courts, where a fair and impartial deliberative process would conclude that Arizona is acting lawfully under federal law, just as Israel acted lawfully under standard international Maritime law. The purpose of the process right now as Arizona and Israel are being pilloried in the national and international media is to influence public opinion, to “sway the jury,” to literally prejudice as much of the public as possible against duly elected state governments upholding laws, while studiously avoiding actual courts with impartial judges.

    When, not if, these issues finally go to court, and only AFTER a campaign of hardening public opinion, and a search for “sympathetic courts,” the public will be then be encouraged to pressure the judges, the advocates, the jury if they do not deliver a “correct conclusion.”

    http://sonoranalliance.com/2010/06/04/an-international-offensive-of-hypocrisy/

    That’s why weasel-like Hillary dropped the turd on Ecuadoran TV, all part of the deliberate propaganda war against Arizona, trying to make life so onerous for AZ, thru Democrat Party-pushed boycotts, praised by the Democrat Obama, praised by the Democrats in Congress, Democrat mayors and threats of expensive legal challenges, AND threats of violence as the Democrats drop “racist” to excite the public every other word. THe AZ law is solid, that’s why Eric Holder is taking so long to formulate any lawsuit. He’s WAITING for a better Supreme Court line-up that is sympathetic to his political case.

  61. Carter was inept, this President is malicious.

    We need to get this nincompoop OUT of office as quickly as possible.

  62. Obama, internal enemy.

  63. Governor Brewer is continuing to amaze, though.

    Brewer flat out told everyone Obama broke his word. He earnestly promised all sorts of concrete assistance and a line of communication and didn’t deliver on anything, then TRIED to slap AZ and Brewer as Governor across the face via Hillary thru the foreign media. But they swung and Brewer just turned it aside.

    Uh OH! Bet they didn’t expect that retort. That’s very very very bad publicity for a POTUS. How is Hillary “I AM THE SECRETARY OF STATE NOT MY HUSBAND” Clinton going to be received in any foreign negotiations now? She’s got the cred of Kim Il Jung of North Korea, because her BOSS has no cred now. Obama is dissing a GOVERNOR of an American STATE, and that’s after dissing our allies for the past year. Hillary is such an incompetent that she does not know this kind of stuff is examined under magnifying glasses in foreign capitals around the world. Obama’s word is worthless. All business will proceed with that intel.

    rewer’s got company – Bobby Jindal. Where are the 48 other governors raising their voices to protest the disgusting treatment Jindal is getting while he tries to protect his state? Where’s that worthless Arnold of Californeeaa rebuking the mayors of Sacramento, LA City Council and SF for their malicious boycotts against another state? AWOL.

  64. Texas GOP Platform is anti-illegal immigration and pro-freedom
    PARTY PLEDGES TO UPHOLD THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND U.S. CONSTITUTION; REJECTS “OBAMACARE” AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
    by Sharon Rondeau

    http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/06/18/texas-gop-platform-is-anti-illegal-immigration-and-pro-freedom/

    The immigration plank states:

    “We oppose illegal immigration, amnesty in any form leading to citizenship, or legal status for illegal immigrants…We support…empowering state and local law enforcement agencies with authority and resources to detail illegal immigrants…We support strict and immediate enforcement of all immigration laws.”

    (snip)

    The platform supports the abolition of automatic “birthright citizenship” by amending the wording of the Fourteenth Amendment, recommending that a child born in the country have at least one parent who is already a U.S. citizen. It seeks to eliminate “non-emergency care” for illegal aliens and wants “aggressive prosecution of persons smuggling humans” across the borders.

    Seeing as they’re on the same page with one another, anyway, it’s past time for me and other Texans to write Perry, requesting that he visibly and vocally stand with Gov Brewer of AZ. Conservative state governors can better stand up to the Feds to protect their states united than each can on his/her own. a

  65. Sojourner
    June 18th, 2010 | 11:00 pm | #73

    How’d you know I love Maxine?

  66. Hmmm…

    If Obama was such a “brilliant law professor”, as his robots always claim, why doesn’t he get the fact that AZ is only enforcing federal law?

    I wonder, has he ever read the law? Cause I seriously doubt it.

  67. Obama’s refusal to enforce existing Immigration law is a serious dereliction of his duty as President, and a violation of his oath to faithfully execute that high office. He is flirting with “high crimes and misdemeanors”. It is clear to me that he is willing to work against the interests of the citizens of this country in order to gain some political advantage from persons here illegally. He must think that inaction on his part is not an actionable offense. He ought to do some checking on that. The term “high crimes and misdemeanors” does not imply that an action (or an inaction) is impeachable because it is a serious crime. The term is meant to deal with actions, or inaction, by a person in high office. His refusal to properly enforce the law and to take appropriate steps to secure the border and insure the safety of the citizenry so offends our sense of justice that it could constitute a basis for impeachment.

  68. A Constitutional duty of the POTUS is to “INSURE DOMESTIC TRANQUILLITY.”

    All of Obama’s rhetoric has been to encourage states and city governments to inflict economic harm on another state. All boycotting, expressly stated to inflict economic harm, has been implemented by the POTUS’s own political Party, and legal threats and undermining rhetoric have been issued thru the POTUS’s cabinet: Attorney General, State Department, Homeland Security. Democrats in the media employ a standard narative that deliberately invokes “racism” at every opportunity. “Early and often” as the US State Department said when complaining to CHina about Arizona’s SB1070. Arizona, thanks to Hillary Clinton, has literally been smeared all the way to China by the Obama Administration.

    The POTUS, thru the Democratic Party at the national, state and local level is working a coordinated effort to incite and empower mob rule to overturn legislation in a US state.

    ALL states and governors no matter the Party, should be in unison, a united front against this destructive and corrosive strategy to break down Rule of Law, to smash away at the United State Constitution. Everyone LOSES, forever.

  69. They fired on Ft. Sumpter for a lot less than this. At least Abraham Lincoln didn’t sue South Carolina.

  70. auntie madder/ #73.. glad it hit the spot..bless.

  71. Obama motto: More Fun, More People Killed and as inefficiently as possible. On your nickel.

    How to fit it on a bumper sticker.

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