Why shouldn’t people who deliberately violated the law be arrested and deported? In the case of Arizona, illegal immigration has been extremely burdensome. Arizona is being overwhelmed with an estimated 500,000 illegals now in that state and more coming every day.

Ed Koch at RealClearPolitics

According to the May 20th New York Times, a little girl asked First Lady Michelle Obama about immigration reform, stating, “My mom says that Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn’t have papers.” The First Lady comforted the little girl, saying, “Yeah, well that’s something that we have to work on, right?” The little girl responded, “But my mom doesn’t have any papers.”

In the same article, the President of Mexico was quoted as saying, “We will retain our firm rejection to criminalize migration so that people that work and provide things to this nation [U.S.] will [not] be treated as criminals,” meaning that Arizona should not be arresting people who illegally crossed the U.S. border and are now illegal aliens.

But why shouldn’t people who deliberately violated the law be arrested and deported? In the case of Arizona, illegal immigration has been extremely burdensome. Arizona is being overwhelmed with an estimated 500,000 illegals now in that state and more coming every day. Many of those illegals require medical services and education facilities for their children. The cost to Arizona undoubtedly runs into the multi-millions, if not billions of dollars. If the feds are failing to do their job to protect Arizona from infiltration, that state government has decided it will do the job. For that, Arizona is being denounced by President Obama and by many members of Congress. When Mexican President Felipe Calderon denounced Arizona’s law when he addressed the joint session of Congress, saying, “It is a law that not only ignores a reality that cannot be erased by decree but also introduces a terrible idea using racial profiling as a basis for law enforcement…core values we all care about are breached,” the Democrats stood up and applauded him. What an outrage, both by Congress and Calderon.

As a result of the furor created by the Arizona law calling for police identification and arrest of illegal immigrants, the Arizona legislature changed the law and now some other incident — such as a traffic offense or otherwise — must take place before an Arizona police officer can inquire about a person’s right to be in the U.S. This amendment is to insure against racial profiling.

If the little girl had said to the First Lady, “My mom is a shoplifter,” I would have felt badly for her, but I would not have discouraged the cops from getting a search warrant. In this little girl’s situation, the White House announced there would be no effort to remove the little girl’s mother from the U.S., because she was not a danger to the country. Our hearts go out to children and I believe if a child is born here, every effort should be made to keep the family intact in the U.S.

I have heard public officials in ever larger numbers talk about the need to provide the illegals with a “pathway to citizenship.” Why? Probably because those politicians — particularly Democrats — hope to enlist them to vote for them in the future. They are becoming an ever larger part of the American population, with Hispanics expected to be 29 percent of the population by 2050. Clergy, particularly Roman Catholic, also support giving illegal aliens citizenship. Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles is a leader in this effort for reasons of compassion and I would think because the Roman Catholic Church is becoming increasingly Hispanic, particularly in the Southwest of the U.S.

People like me oppose granting amnesty to illegals for the same reasons that the people of the U.S. rose up twice during George W. Bush’s presidency and defeated two congressional efforts to create amnesty and a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 to 20 million illegal aliens.

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