It's time our federal officials and lawmakers followed the lead of Arizona and took a commonsense approach to stopping the juggernaut of illegal immigration

Shunning D.C. and Frisco best way to convince Pelosi’s congress to plug a wide-open border

By David Ridenour
Friday, May 7, 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In San Francisco and here in the nation’s capital, liberal politicians are preparing economic boycotts against Arizona because it had the guts to crack down on the illegal aliens who violate federal laws with sneering impunity.

The District of Columbia Council, incompetent beyond imagining in governing the 599,000 overtaxed souls who inhabit its 68.2 square miles, has the audacity to demand that Arizona ignore the drug-runners, human traffickers and murderers who have wreaked havoc in the Grand Canyon State for much of the past decade.

Such chutzpah from a city whose license plates whine about alleged “Taxation without Representation,â€