Lawsuit against Arizona may be federal disclosure nightmare
Monday, June 21, 2010 at 9:33AM by Kay B. Day
A Customs and Border Patrol officer negotiates an arrest after being sprayed with OC [pepper spray] in a training exercise simulating real events. [Photo by Gerald L. Nino, CBP]If the Obama administration does file the lawsuit officials have announced in response to Arizona's immigration law, it may actually work on behalf of US citizens.
Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) is taking a ‘bring it on’ approach about rumors swirling around a federal government lawsuit against her state. Ironically the federal lawsuit challenging Arizona’s state immigration law could prove to be a disclosure nightmare for the feds. For example, a recent conversation Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.) disclosed is an example of President Barack Obama placing politics over the US Constitution.
A blogger at Red State helped surface Kyl’s story.
Kyl was addressing constituents in a townhall meeting. Kyl said, “I met with the president in the Oval Office—just the two of us…Here’s what the president said: ‘The problem is,’ he said, ‘If we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform.’”
Kyl concluded, “In other words, they’re holding it hostage.”
This is one example of evidence the federal government has little interest in doing anything constructive about national security vulnerability on the border. It’s very troubling that the administration refuses to uphold the US Constitution.
Kyl said in a recent press release: “Democrats in the Senate have proven no less hostile to border security initiatives. When Senators John McCain, John Cornyn, and I offered a series of border security measures on May 27, the majority of Senate Democrats voted to block their adoption.”
Questions come to mind. Who benefits from current immigration policy? For starters, top beneficiaries are drug cartels and human traffickers. Also employers who seek cheap labor. And of course political advocacy groups interested in building political power based on nothing more than skin color and race—some of those groups have received taxpayer dollars to support their efforts which amount to political lobbying for power.
Who else benefits? Who receives political donations to turn a blind eye to our current illegal alien (as IRS and other government agencies cite) situation?
Who benefits, and where does the money come from?
Disclosure, in my opinion, could be the hidden issue that would actually shed light on government policy. Brewer should demand a complete record of all taxpayer dollars given to illegal alien advocacy groups. She should also demand a record of campaign donations from those who benefit from open border policies.
As another example, this one not related to immigration, the feds were sued in 2009 by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. The lawsuit related to a freedom of information request about “high-ranking officials’ contact with union operatives.”
Coincidentally the Obama administration didn’t even have the decency to tell the American people the federal lawsuit against Arizona would be filed. Instead, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton announced it to the country of Ecuador—Brewer and the rest of us learned of this via foreign media. Not for the first time did Americans feel like we’re living in a banana republic.
Brewer issued an official response on Friday: ““Because Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Ecuadorean television on June 8th that the Obama Administration had decided to sue Arizona over its recently passed anti-illegal immigration law, SB1070, it will come as no surprise if recent media reports are accurate and if the president’s policies now, in fact, include filing a lawsuit against the State of Arizona. Though not surprising, that decision is, nevertheless, outrageous.”
Whatever the outcome, the lawsuit may work in favor of the American taxpayer bearing the financial burden for the federal government’s open border policies.
It’s time to clear the air about the real reasons politicos stonewall the border issue when it comes to national security and fiscal matters. It’s time for politicos to come forward, yield up undisclosed documents and conversations like those with Kyl.
And it's time for states where illegal aliens create strains on entitlement budgets and security issues to consider filing their own lawsuits.
Fact is, disclosure may be a nightmare for the federal government and it may shed light on why the government is placing the interests of the citizenry below the interests of foreign governments. Americans deserve to know who is buying our government and for what purposes.
Kay B. Day, Editor
UPDATE
The White House implies Sen. Kyl is a liar, issuing a statement to Politico and claiming the president didn't say what Kyl said he said.
Reader Comments (2)
The Tea Bag Party are just “haters not debaters” or as others have dubbed them “screamers not dreamers”, with their failed attempts at stopping Healthcare reform, they say they respect the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence but they do not mind passing laws, through weak Governors (no one voted for this crazy) who only cares about getting elected Governor, on the backs of undocumented workers, that will not pass Constitution muster.
Brewer signed into law;
1. S.B. 1070,
2. No permit conceal weapons law,
3. The famous Birthers law,
4. Banning Ethnic studies law,
5. Could she be behind the Mural in Prescott, Arizona, ordered to be whiten,
6. On deck to pass, no citizenship to babies born to undocumented workers,
7. If she can read she should look up Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago (which was un-constitution and failed when legally challenged),
8. The boycotted Martin Luther King Day, what idiots don’t want another holiday? Yes, you guessed it Arizona.
Well Arizona, you can boycott new holidays and keep passing crazy laws and the rest of us will continue to challenged them in a court of law and continue to add cities to our Boycott of your state.
I real cannot believe anything that comes out of Brewer’s mouth, in an interview she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (war ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. But we are suppose to believe everything else she says, right! No one voted for you for Governor, yet you keep listening to the tiny brains of the crazies and signing into law everything that comes into their feeble minds, it only make you look dumb, stupid or racist, or maybe all three.
As for the Tea Bag Party, their phony patriotism is sickening; they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, energy (remember Cheney’s secret meetings with oil companies where loosening regulation and oversight were sealed), climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions).
The Birthers and the Tea Bag party crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and people like Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believed that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now it’s about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits and the crazy Birthers who have not learned that the way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked internet lies, then, and only then, do you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called “Internet facts”. Let’s face it no one will take the Birthers seriously until they win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. I heard that Orly Taitz now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC), she wants to re-establish a family values party, that is like saying that the Catholic Church cares about the welling being of children in their care, too late for that. Yee Haw!
Very creative take to intro the Tea Party in an article where it isn't mentioned. Take it you don't like the Arizona gov. I admit I didn't get past the first para of the rant, though. best, KBD