Obama Cracks Down – on Arizona not immigration

June 21, 2010 06:27


Officials in Eric Holder’s Justice Department are quietly giving word that it is a matter of when, not if, they will seek to subvert Arizona’s attempt to protect its people from porous borders.

By at American Spectator

The sweet nothings Hillary Clinton whispered into the ears of foreign television audiences went stateside on Friday, as America media outlets began confirming what the secretary of state first told an Ecuadoran news channel: the Obama administration is planning a lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration law.

Publicly, Obama administration lawyers will only admit that a thorough “review” of SB 1070 is ongoing. But the toothpaste is out of the tube. Officials in Eric Holder’s Justice Department are quietly giving word that it is a matter of when, not if, they will seek to subvert Arizona’s attempt to protect its people from porous borders.

On cue, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard — the Democratic gubernatorial candidate — dropped his promised “vigorous legal defense” of the law. Goddard opposed the statute and had been sparring with Gov. Jan Brewer, his likely Republican opponent in the general election, about how it will be defended.

According to a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, Americans side with Arizona by a 58 percent to 41 percent margin. In late May, Quinnipiac put the numbers at 51 percent to 31 percent. CBS found that 52 percent think the Arizona law is “about right” while only 28 percent believe it “goes too far.” Another 17 percent said it doesn’t go far enough. The breakdown among Democrats was 46 percent “just right,” 40 percent “too far,” and 10 percent “not far enough.”

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