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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 739041" data-attributes="member: 12952">6 lessons and a warning from ArizonaBy Tom TancredoThere are many lessons to be drawn from the epic battle over&nbsp; Arizona’s new immigration-enforcement law. The&nbsp; first lesson is that this is no longer simply a legal&nbsp; battle or a political debate. It is at bottom a constitutional&nbsp; crisis.Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution says that the&nbsp; United States “shall guarantee to every State a Republican Form of&nbsp; Government and shall protect each of them against invasion.” The state&nbsp; of Arizona is being invaded, has so declared in the passage of S.B.1070&nbsp; and in letters from the governor to the president, and the state has&nbsp; asked for federal help to repel that invasion.Obama’s failure to respond to Arizona’s call for help is an outrage.&nbsp; His sending a token 1,200 National Guard troops is more than an insult&nbsp; to the citizens of Arizona, it is an insult to the plain words of the&nbsp; Constitution. Obama cares more about being popular in Mexico than in&nbsp; Phoenix or Houston, and that portends a constitutional crisis.Anyone who doubts that the Mexican government has declared war on the&nbsp; United States need only read the speeches of Mexican officials and&nbsp; Mexican legislators. Mexico declares openly and unabashedly that it has&nbsp; the right to send as many Mexican citizens – newly baptized as&nbsp; “migrants” – across our borders as they choose, for the benefit of&nbsp; Mexico’s economy, with no regard for the sovereignty of the United&nbsp; States.A second lesson is that the&nbsp; condemnation of the new Arizona law by Mexico and its allies in Congress&nbsp; is in truth a condemnation of immigration law enforcement itself.A third lesson to be drawn&nbsp; from the Arizona controversy is that the “racism” slander against the&nbsp; new law and against Arizona citizens has backfired.A fourth lesson concerns the&nbsp; cynical motivations behind the Obama administration’s inaction on border&nbsp; security.The fifth lesson is the one&nbsp; the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is most reluctant to heed: Amnesty is&nbsp; dead.A sixth and final lesson is&nbsp; also a warning to the Republican Party: Americans will not sell our&nbsp; national sovereignty for a spoonful of cold porridge called the Hispanic&nbsp; vote.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 739041, member: 12952"] [B]6 lessons and a warning from Arizona By Tom Tancredo[/B] There are many lessons to be drawn from the epic battle over Arizona’s new immigration-enforcement law. [COLOR=maroon][B]The first lesson[/B][/COLOR] [B]is that this is no longer simply a legal battle or a political debate. [/B]It is at bottom a constitutional crisis. Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution says that the United States “shall guarantee to every State a Republican Form of Government and shall protect each of them against invasion.” The state of Arizona is being invaded, has so declared in the passage of S.B.1070 and in letters from the governor to the president, and the state has asked for federal help to repel that invasion. Obama’s failure to respond to Arizona’s call for help is an outrage. His sending a token 1,200 National Guard troops is more than an insult to the citizens of Arizona, it is an insult to the plain words of the Constitution. Obama cares more about being popular in Mexico than in Phoenix or Houston, and that portends a constitutional crisis. Anyone who doubts that the Mexican government has declared war on the United States need only read the speeches of Mexican officials and Mexican legislators. Mexico declares openly and unabashedly that it has the right to send as many Mexican citizens – newly baptized as “migrants” – across our borders as they choose, for the benefit of Mexico’s economy, with no regard for the sovereignty of the United States. [COLOR=maroon][B]A second lesson[/B][/COLOR] [B]is that the condemnation of the new Arizona law by Mexico and its allies in Congress is in truth a condemnation of immigration law enforcement itself.[/B] [COLOR=maroon][B]A third lesson[/B][/COLOR] [B]to be drawn from the Arizona controversy is that the “racism” slander against the new law and against Arizona citizens has backfired[/B]. [COLOR=maroon][B]A fourth lesson[/B][/COLOR] [B]concerns the cynical motivations behind the Obama administration’s inaction on border security.[/B] [COLOR=maroon][B]The fifth lesson[/B][/COLOR] [B]is the one the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is most reluctant to heed: Amnesty is dead.[/B] [COLOR=maroon][B]A sixth and final lesson[/B][/COLOR][B] is also a warning to the Republican Party: Americans will not sell our national sovereignty for a spoonful of cold porridge called the Hispanic vote.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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