President Obama has brought out the amnesty legislation threat in the hope that this will bring about a lift in the Democrats sagging poll numbers with the upcoming election just around the corner.
At this point in time any immigration legislation is unlikely to come up because of the close races for the many House and Senate seats up for grabs nation wide in November.
Do not put it past this current administration to try pushing amnesty down our throats during the lame duck period after the election.
After the November election's the Representatives and Senators who lost will have no fear of their constituents and would have nothing to lose by voting for an amnesty.
We will be keeping a close watch of all current developments and pass them on to you the IFIRE membership.
Obama has taken Arizona to task over their tough new immigration enforcement law. The lawsuit states: ( A state may not establish it's own immigration policy or enforce state laws in a manner that interferes with the Federal immigration laws.)
How can a state interfere with the Federal governments enforcement of immigration laws if the Federal government is not enforcing the immigration laws it established and passed into law in 1996?
In 2007 Prince William County in Virgina passed an ordinance like Arizona's and have had great success in keeping illegal aliens from accessing their hospitals, jails, schools and welfare programs.
Arizona has a right to protect it's citizens from the illegal aliens and the drugs, gangs, and other costs associated with the 460,000 illegals residing in their state.
The Arizona law has a 50-50 chance of standing up in court, but it wouldn't hurt if you called all the congressmen in Indiana and told them you support Arizona and their right to enforce immigration laws at the state level.
It's a crime ( in my opinion ) that we have 15 million or more Americans unemployed yet our American elected officials won't enforce laws that would put millions of Americans back to work!
On the local level, Indianapolis City-County Council member Jose Evans proposed an ordinance to boycott Arizona over its immigration law! IFIRE members were called to action and some of our longtime members along with our new activists attended the council meeting on Tuesday the 6th of July.
The boycott ordinance was tabled ( killed ) and Jose Evans didn't even bother to show up! IFIRE members had called and e-mailed the Indianapolis city-council members and put enough pressure on them that they believed killing the ordinance was in their best interest. No one contacted them to support the boycott. They were shocked by the flood of emails and phone calls and in-person visits by our members.
This victory goes to show you we can have an affect on our government we just need to act! Tell your friends about us and pass along our contact info for people to see that have a state based immigration group they can get involved in.
Keep active!
Greg Serbon, IFIRE State Director
