Obama And Holder Show Disregard For Our Immigration Laws

A week after suing Arizona the Barack Hussein 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."  Arizona following federal law interferes and cities refusing to follow federal get a bye.

_"There is a big difference between a state or locality saying they are not going to use their resources to enforce a federal law, as so-called sanctuary cities have done, and a state passing its own immigration policy that actively interferes with federal law," Tracy Schmaler, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., told The Washington Times. "That's what Arizona did in this case."

"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 Representative 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."_

Officials in Arizona say they've been unfairly singled out by President Obama and Mr. Holder, who last week sued to overturn Arizona's new law, arguing that it could lead to a patchwork of state immigration rules.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and other critics said that sanctuary cities, localities that refuse to check on someone's legal status or won't alert immigration authorities when they encounter illegal immigrants, are just as guilty of creating a patchwork of laws, and violate the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.

Representative Smith said the administration doesn't appear to understand his law, which requires localities to share information on illegal immigrants with federal authorities. "The White House is just plain wrong on the premise since the Arizona law mirrors federal law, it does not 'interfere' with it," he said.

Obama personally took an active role in targeting Arizona, including ordering the Justice Department to get involved. But on sanctuary cities, the White House has deflected questions, first telling a reporter it would get an answer about the president's thinking but eventually shifting questions over to the Justice Department.

"You cannot have a system of 50 quarterbacks in the immigration system because immigration includes issues of law enforcement, it involves decisions with implications in foreign policy, it involves incidents with humanitarian implications, and you can't have 50 states making immigration law and have a coherent system," Mr. Perez said, according to MainJustice.com, which covers the Justice Department.

Using Obama, Holder, and the DOJ’s argument 50 states enforcing federal law is bad and interfering.  Further hundreds or thousands of cities refusing to obey and enforce federal law is good.  Obama is only looking for votes not the rule of law.

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