Earlier this year, Barack Obama
bypassed Congress and the Constitution by granting a subset of illegal aliens deferred
status. Now, the usual suspects are suing Arizona as a means to legitimize this bastardization of our
immigration laws. Organizations such as
the ACLU and MALDEF are trying to intimated Governor Jan Brewer and the
citizens of that great state into authorizing driver’s licenses to
the “undocumented.”
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer issued
the order in late August to help counter the Obama Administration’s stealth
amnesty program, which is sparing hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from
deportation. Under the plan, called “Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals,” illegal immigrants under the age of 30 who came to the
U.S. as children can remain in the country and obtain work permits. President
Obama sidestepped Congress and created it in June via executive order. Brewer fought back with her own order to stop illegal immigrants who obtain work permits under the federal program from getting taxpayer-funded perks or licenses in her state. In the document Brewer explains that allowing Arizona’s 80,000 deferred action recipients improper access to state or local benefits will have significant and lasting impacts on the state’s budget, its healthcare system and additional public benefits that taxpayers fund.
The open borders movement
immediately blasted the governor, calling her order a “mean-spirited” policy
that compounds the “climate of fear and mistrust” already created by Arizona’s
strict immigration control law. Denying illegal aliens driver’s licenses is a “feeble attempt to score a political
point against the president’s humane and sensible action” and a
“cruel slap in the face to thousands of young Arizonans,” according to National
Council of La Raza President Janet Murguia.
Now Arizona has to waste taxpayer
dollars to defend its policy in court. In a 32-page complaint the
groups—which include the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
(MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)—claim the measure is
unjust and unconstitutional because it violates the supremacy and equal
protection clauses of the United States Constitution. “As the President of the
United States has recognized, these young immigrants are Americans in their
heart, in their minds, in every single way but one: On paper,” the lawsuit says.
States have the sole authority to
issue business and driver’s licenses.
Maybe State legislatures should pass punitive laws as a measure to
prevent frivolous lawsuits.
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