Arizona Law Protects US From Gangs, Terrorists
Monday, 24 May 2010 10:36 AM
By: James Walsh

It is said facetiously that the early American Indians had poor immigration laws and no border security. Today’s Arizonans, including a prominent Indian population, face an onslaught of criminal alien gangs.

In response to increasingly lax enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, the Arizona legislature has taken action. By passing immigration law SB 1070 in April 2010, the state signaled that it is circling the wagons to protect Arizonans.

SB 1070 mirrors current federal immigration law, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that law enforcement officers did not need reasonable suspicion to ask for name, date of birth, or immigration status. Yet a similar provision in the Arizona law has caused an uproar nationwide and abroad.

When Gov. Jan Brewer had the pioneer spunk to sign the Arizona bill into law, all hell broke loose. The radical left, the liberal newsmedia, anarchists, and immigrant advocates were quick to condemn the legislation.

They were joined by the president of the United States, the U.S. Attorney General, and the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, who condemned the law while claiming they had not read it. To admit to having read the law would have required them to acknowledge that SB 1070 mirrors federal law.

Most recently, they were joined in their condemnation of the Arizona law by the president of Mexico and by a U.S. undersecretary of state, who apologized “early and oftenâ€