Arizona's Immigration Law

[🪦 mpetrie ●]

I think many are getting confused with the recent debate over the Arizona immigration issue. This isn't an immigration debate as much as it's a states' rights debate. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states that the Federal Government has the ability to regulate naturalization (immigration), so regardless what the people of Arizona feel they can dictate in their own state, the Constitution overrules it.

It would be similar if Idaho -all of a sudden- decided to eliminate citizenship rights for (fill in the blank) minority groups. Regardless of what democratic measure that Idahoans used to come up with their law, the 14th Amendment (Equal Protection Clause) would trump it.

Here's what I don't get... if it's against the Federal Law to illegally enter the country... why doesn't the Federal Government do something about it? Just cracking down on the drug smugglers, murderers, etc is a decent start but you would not believe the number of jobs are taken up by them that could be done by legal immigrants or citizens. I work in Welfare and deal with a Spanish-only caseload and 95% of my cases have illegal immigrants on them and a massive amount of them use fake Social Security numbers or numbers belonging to other people so they can work. Also a massive amount of them are paid under the table so no taxes are paid on this income. I find it disgusting that our Federal Government simply refuses to enforce its own laws but instead goes after a State that is simply aggressively enforcing the laws that already exist. Sure, I disagree with some parts of the Arizona law, but I am in favor of enforcing the laws of the land. Period.