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As the Obama administration pushes forward with its suit against Arizona’s new immigration law, Republican senators are trying to shield the Grand Canyon state from the feds.
Jim DeMint of South Carolina and David Vitter of Louisiana introduced an amendment on Wednesday to prohibit federal funding of any lawsuit that aims to invalidate the Arizona law, known as SB 1070.
The legislation is a direct response to the Department of Justice’s suit against the state, which claims that SB 1070 is illegal because it preempts federal authority to police the border.
“States like Arizona shouldn’t be prosecuted for protecting their citizens when the federal government fails to do so,” DeMint said in a statement released to the press. “The federal government is rewarding illegal behavior and encouraging many more to enter our nation illegally when they refuse to enforce our laws. States along the border are facing kidnappings, drug trafficking, human trafficking and gang violence and they have a duty to keep their residents safe. Instead of suing states for doing his job, the president should get serious and stop holding border security hostage to pass amnesty and score points with his liberal base.”
“Poll after poll shows that a significant majority of Americans support increased border enforcement and the Arizona law specifically,” Senator Vitter told The Daily Caller. “Yet the Obama administration has ignored these concerns, and instead of helping Arizona deal with its overwhelming immigration problem, the administration is suing the state. That’s the wrong approach and it shows that stopping illegal immigration is not a priority for this administration.”
The practical result of the DeMint-Vitter amendment would be a prohibition against any action on the part of the Obama administration to participate in lawsuits seeking to prevent Arizona from defending itself against illegal immigration with SB 1070.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s spokesman, Paul Senseman, in an e-mail to The Daily Caller, wrote that while the governor has yet to read the amendment, “Senator DeMint along with several elected Democrats in Arizona strongly disagree with the poor decision of the Obama administration to utilize federal resources for this lawsuit instead of border security.” He continued, “Arizonans have united in a bipartisan fashion against the federal government’s lawsuit and continued inaction on border security.”
The amendment could be voted on next week in conjunction with the small business bill.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/14/republican-senators-demint-and-vitter-push-for-amendment-to-block-federal-funding-for-obama-suit-against-arizona-immigration-law/print/#ixzz0tsEAsVL0
I think it is great. Why should he use our tax dollars to fight for something that the American people want. obama keeps digging himself a bigger hole and I love it.
11 Responses so far to "What do you think push for amendment to block federal funding for Obama suit against Arizona immigration law?"
July 20th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Very interesting, but sounds like a Democrat thing to do.
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July 20th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
I think it is great. Why should he use our tax dollars to fight for something that the American people want. obama keeps digging himself a bigger hole and I love it.
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July 20th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
It won’t go anywhere.
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July 20th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
As an AZ resident all of this talk gets me fired up. I can’t believe that all the fed govt has done in response to the crimes along the border is place billboards and signs at parks where there is a lot of mexican gang violence and drug trafficking activity warning US citizens not to go there. So instead of protecting us and taking action to keep us safe inside our own local, state and fed parks they are just telling us to stay out of them because there is crime there. They figure it’s easier for us to lose our privilege to enjoy those parks than to clean up the crime that is taking place inside of them.
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July 20th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Wow the more I hear about obama the more my stomach cringes.
Hes trying to sue arizona? who does he think he is??
Why is obama tapping into america to feed so many illegal immigrants and allow them here???
People were fools, blind fools to vote for him.
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July 20th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
I want an amendment to not use my tax dollars in this stupid war in Iraq an Afghanistan. More and more people think continuing this war is wrong.
Boy makes you wonder though. An amendment, being voted on possibly next week, to stop the funding of this law suit. Yet…wait for it…..they won’t amend the 14th amendment…giving automatic citizenship to anyone born here. HMMMM..seems if they wanted to curb a large portion of this illegal problem, then taking away one of the biggest incentives they have for coming here, would be a good place to start. Or maybe…………..they don’t want to take away that incentive.
None the less…even if voted on next week, this amendment won’t go through.
Donna
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July 20th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
This thing Obama is trying to do is just wrong.. it is a government move against the will of the people of this country.. over 90 % disagree with what he is doing and yet he goes on with it.
This is nothing short of treason the way he is treating the people who employ him.. he should be arrested and tried for treason. It is disgusting. The man is a criminal!
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July 20th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
FU.CK THE CONSTITUTION IS MY STATE I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT, THIS IS NOT A FREE LAND, IS MY LAND
AM THE QUEEN OF AZ!!!!
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July 20th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
That would be so very, very nice. You almost get the feeling the Republican Party is catching on.
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July 20th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Holder and the administration keep burying themselves deeper. You’d think with the majority of Americans that are for Arizona, our government wouldn’t spend our taxpayer dollars for suing them. Truly, a blatant disregard by the far left liberal administration to spit in our faces, one more time. It IS nothing new for them.
Holder should be fired as well as Obama. They are the ones that are showing the racist end of their agendas. We here it all over the news to confirm it. They are setting this country back in time on race issues. I noticed the first time on Memorial Day, when Obama laid out a special Black Wreathe for only the black soldiers. This is a kick in the butt to all soldiers who were of different ethnic backgrounds. Indians, Asians, Chinese, Hispanics, and more Americans. What a terd he is!
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July 20th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
God bless senator Jim DeMint and senator David Vitter.
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