DOJ: Sanctuary Cities Okay, Arizona Evil

The Department of Justice has said that cities that defy a Federal law requiring local authorities to cooperate with federal immigration officers are not interfering with the enforcement of immigration law... but Arizona's law, that merely authorizes local law enforcement officers to check immigration status under certain circumstances, DOES interfere.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/14/justice-sanctuary-cities-are-no-arizona/

A week after suing Arizona and arguing that the state's immigration law creates a patchwork of rules, the Obama administration said it will not go after so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with the federal government on immigration enforcement, on the grounds that they are not as bad as a state that "actively interferes."

But the author of the 1996 federal law that requires states and localities to cooperate with federal authorities on immigration laws thinks the administration is misreading the statute and that sanctuary cities are in violation of federal law. Drawing a distinction between those localities and Arizona, he said, is "flimsy justification" for suing the state.

"For the Justice Department to suggest that they won't take action against those who passively violate the law who fail to comply with the law is absurd," said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and chief author of the 1996 immigration law. "Will they ignore individuals who fail to pay taxes? Will they ignore banking laws that require disclosure of transactions over $10,000? Of course not."

And this shows not only the hypocrisy of Obama's DOJ, but also their contempt for laws with which they disagree.


Arizona's law REINFORCES federal law... and was passed because they Feds have been a trifle lax on enforcement. Sanctuary cities, on the other hand, flout federal law and say they won't cooperate. But sanctuary cities are okay. Why? Because the Obama administration AGREES with their stance on an ideological level. Therefore, no matter what the law actually says, they'll get a walk. Like the New Black Panthers, as long as you share PresBo's views, you're immune from prosecution.

How long will we tolerate a government that despises its own laws so much that it ignores them whenever it chooses? Hasn't a government that refuses to abide by its own laws forfeited any claim to legitimacy? And isn't such a government really a dictatorship in all but name?

One more reason to get rid of this loathsome ideology from our government... But it is an IMPORTANT reason.