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It is worthwhile to compare and contrast what the Obama administration and the Mexican government are doing to try and stop the drug culture violence that plagues the U.S. – Mexican border.

The Senate agreed Thursday to add $600 million to the effort to stop the flow of illegal immigrants across the U.S. Mexican border. – AP

Michigan is the lead state backing Arizona in federal court and is joined by Alabama, Florida, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia, as well as the Northern Mariana Islands.

Alabama Congressional Candidate Rick Barber on why he feels states have the authority to protect themselves from illegal immigrants.

In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s suit against Arizona’s new immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections.

“Even if discovered, illegal aliens are allowed to walk free and seek employment elsewhere” said Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee. “This lax approach is particularly troubling,” he said, “at a time when so many American citizens are struggling to find jobs.”

The reality is that the northern provinces of Mexico are only nominally under the authority of the central government. The provincial officials and administration at best have a working relationship with the criminal cartels. At worst the provincial governments are the criminal cartels. Efforts by honest politicians to bring about change are met with intimidation and — as in the recent case of Dr. Rodolfo Torre, gubernatorial reform candidate in Tamaulipas — assassination.

In our topsy turvy American justice system you can get in more trouble defending yourself and your property with a weapon than you can being an illegal alien career criminal. An 82 year old Colorado man faces life in prison for wounding criminal illegals stealing his trailer and trying to run him down.

“The Justice Department’s complaint that Arizona has somehow preempted federal law is nothing short of ridiculous,” Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga., said in a statement to the media. “Arizona has simply reinforced longstanding federal laws, whose enforcement the Obama administration is now actively seeking to prevent . . . States like Arizona should not have to act on their own, but Washington’s decades of neglect for border security leave them no choice. The federal government should be vigorously securing the border, not suing the State of Arizona.”

This is about amnesty. This administration has done everything they can to not enforce the law. This is a president who is acting like a dictator.