Obama Wages War on Arizona

o protect the tide of illegal aliens flooding across the Mexican border, the Obama regime has declared a litigation war against the people of Arizona and their elected officials who are struggling to find ways to enforce immigration laws. The U.S. Department of Justice under Eric Holder, the first black man to become U.S. Attorney General, has filed at least three different suits in an effort to protect illegal aliens, and the State Department has even singled out Arizona in a report to the United Nations, implying that the state violates human rights by seeking to detain illegals.

Illegal aliens are seen by Democrat Party strategists as future citizens and voters who will help them maintain power in Washington. Arizona

Gov. Jan Brewer called the State Department's report "downright offensive," adding, "the idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to 'review' by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional."

The U.N. Human Rights Council is reviewing U.S. behavior on "human rights" and is expected to make recommendations for the U.S. to comply with U.N. mandates.The U.N.'s Human Rights Council members include Libya, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and China, none of whom permit opposition political parties or even guarantees of free speech or religion.

On the domestic front in its war, Obama's government has filed several suits, including one to overturn Arizona's recently passed immigration enforcement law that empowers police to question suspects about their immigration status if there is reason to believe the suspect may be in the U.S. illegally. The law has been denounced by left-wing groups and Hispanic organizations that are important consititutencies in President Obama's and the Democrat Party's electoral coalition.

In addition to the suit against Arizona State, Attorney General Holder has also filed suits against Arizona colleges as well as Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The Justice Department wants to stop the state's colleges from asking immigrant job applicants to show their "green card" as evidence they are in the country legally before being hired. The Justice Department said such requests are "document abuse discrimination" amounting to "immigration-related employment discrimination."

In its suit against Sheriff Arpaio, the Obama regime is trying to collect thousands of internal county documents in an effort to prove that arrests and detention of illegal aliens are "discriminatory" and amount to "racial profiling," but the Justice Department so far has been unable to find any evidence.

Arpaio's attorney, Robert N. Driscoll, said the Department of Justice "after 18 months of soliciting allegations against Sheriff Arpaio, has come up empty.... This lawsuit is nothing more than an attempt to obscure the fact that DOJ still has no case. Today's suit over documents does not change that."

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