It is time for conservatives to stand up to the liberal establishment that is twisting the laws to suit their own agenda. The attacks on Arizona are just another example of how they disregard the truth to apply pain to their opposition.
From the the official “office of state and local coordination’ at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement web page. http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/factsheets/section287_g.htm is a list of success stories from the 287g section of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Which in fact authorizes State and Local law enforcement to partner with Immigration Authorities on immigration enforcement. One would think that the current administration would be aware of such a partnership especially since the Washington Times, Dalton Daily Citizen and Burlington Times have reported success stories of such partneships and they are list as such on the ICE web site.
This site further reports that ” In 2009 ICE fundamentally reformed the 287g delegated authority program strengthing public safety “. The sit spells out the ACCESS program provides training for the program and lists participating agencies from states such as Alabama, Arizona, Arkanas, California, ColoradoFlorida,Georgia,Missouri,North and South Carolina Texas, AND Tennessee. According to the ICE site as of 4/12/2010 “they have 1,120 officers trained and 71 active agreements in 26 states” It also lists active MOAs pending “good faith Negotiations” in California, Massachusetts, and NEw Mexico as of 4/29/2010. They currently have an “Office of State and Local Coordination” and the state that they have additional supervisors “in the fielld to ensure greater oversight of 287g operations”.
This is enough to make some wonder what is wrong with the current adminstration so as to attack the State of Arizona in light of such legislation. Is there a hidden agenda? Or does the Obama administration just plain not know what it is doing?
The call from cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco to boycott AZ should be responded with a boycott of those who are trying so hard to hurt the state of Arizona unfairly with an unwise boycott,when it is so obvious the law is on Arizona’s side
