Arizona Continues War Against Illegals

From the Washington Times, oral arguments — a little tease here — oral arguments, the Arizona immigration law.

“Supreme Court Casts Doubt on Obama’s Immigration Law Claim — Supreme Court justices took a dim view of the Obama administration’s claim that it can stop Arizona from enforcing immigration laws…”

That’s what this is about.

Obama is suing Arizona for essentially enforcing federal immigration law.

Arizona created its own law because the Feds were not patrolling the border, securing the border, so Arizona said, “Okay, we’ll do it ourselves,” and Obama is suing the state of Arizona, and that’s what the oral arguments are about.

The Washington Times is reporting: “Supreme Court justices took a dim view of the Obama administration’s claim that it can stop Arizona from enforcing immigration laws, telling government lawyers during oral argument that the state appears to want to push federal officials, not conflict with them.”

And that is exactly right.

The justices have it exactly right.

Arizona just wants some help.

They weren’t trying to push against or conflict with Obama.

They were asking for help.

Militia At Mexican Border Should Shoot To Kill

The Arizona governor could deploy an armed, volunteer militia to respond to natural disasters and patrol the Arizona-Mexico border for illegal immigrants and drug-traffickers under a legislative proposal to fund a state guard.

The bill calls for a one-time cost of $500,000 from the general fund and an additional $1.4 million each year from a gang task-force fund.

While there’s an anticipated budget surplus, lawmakers must deal with long-term debt and the May 2013 expiration of the 1-cent-per-dollar sales-tax increase, so it is unclear how much support this bill would have.

Arizona would join 23 other states and territories with active guards, but experts say the state would stand alone if its militia was focused on border enforcement and “combating international criminal activity.”

Most state guards serve as auxiliaries to state National Guards and assist in disaster preparation and response, recovery efforts and protection of infrastructure. State guards typically augment National Guards, a federally recognized reserve military force.

Most often, state governors control the state militia, and the state’s senior military commander directly oversees them.

In some instances, state-guard members have access to weapons, which are otherwise locked away in armories for safekeeping, one border expert said.

I Will Never Forget Alamo Mexicans

Three years ago, California National Guard troops were activated and sent to garrison the Mexican border to cut down on smuggling and other problems there.

And it was hardly the first time.

Almost 96 years ago, Pomona’s National Guard troop was shipped to the border at a time when outright war with Mexico was a real possibility.
Fortunately for all concerned, the crisis never reached the shooting stage, but it came close.