The passage of the complete Arizona Immigration Law SB-1070 may not have stood up to the nitpicking, Obama-persuaded, decision of Judge Susan Bolton, but its effects and implications had started to be felt even before the judge's announcement.
It seems that many illegal aliens already here across the border by means of breaking United States crossing laws had started to become a bit spooked
that the long arm of the United States law would be clamping down on them; maybe even in a manner related to what their own home countries do to similar law breakers.
Not a pretty picture even just a few miles south across the Mexican border; so these nervous aliens decided not to wait to see what would happen if the new law became active and they began the trek southward back from whence they came to America.
Concurrent with this reverse migration, the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), an organization opposed to illegal aliens in the United States, is according to FoxNews.com on July 28, 2010, "urging U.S. citizens to pressure the White House and the Homeland Security Department to establish 'safe departure' border checkpoints along the border for the emigrants so they can leave without fear of being detained or prosecuted for immigration crimes."
FoxNews.com quoted a written statement from William Gheen saying, "The peaceful and gradual exodus of illegals from Arizona shows there is no need for comprehensive immigration reform amnesty. Comprehensive immigration enforcement works and has the desired effect without mass deportations."
ALIPAC is calling on the Obama administration to ensure a smooth exit for illegal immigrants who are trying to leave the U.S. due to the weak economy and Arizona's strict new immigration law. Gheen said the safe passage would ensure that illegals "leave in an orderly fashion, instead of trying risky he cartels for passage south, or fleeing to other states."
FoxNews.com also reported that "neither the White House nor Homeland Security responded to e-mails seeking comment.
That last statement by FoxNews.com is understandable as neither the White House nor Homeland Security WANTS the illegal aliens to leave; they and the liberal Democrats in Congress have been planning on those illegals to vote early and often as the saying goes, for liberal Democrats for election and reelection.
But now that the world knows of Judge Susan Bolton's cave to the Obama wishes for serious parts of the Arizona law, the illegal alien lovers of this Administration and liberal Congress may not have to worry about them leaving Arizona.
Although, if I were a betting man, I would think twice about the aliens staying in Arizona. Not all of the new law was overridden by the Judge and Arizona still has Super Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an illegal alien's worst nightmare. Maybe that nice long walk back to where they came from is beginning to look better and better.
Fox reported that an estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants have left Arizona in the past two years as it cracked down on illegal immigration and its economy was hard hit by the recession.
While at this time we only know that Governor Brewer has filed an appeal of the ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, the parts not struck down by Bolton such as the state being allowed to block "sanctuary cities" where illegal aliens would not be subject to arrest and transfer to I.C.E or U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation, can keep renegade illegals on the move, hopefully to the countries south of our borders.
But another strong deterrent of the new law that remains is the provision that makes it a crime for anyone to pick up any of the day laborers that appear in large numbers on the streets and corners of business districts in large cities. These sometimes unruly gangs of young people looking for work get out of hand and cause disruption of traffic flow and pedestrian menacing. But no pickups mean no work and no work means the illegals might go home.
Governor Brewer is handling this legalistic setback with cool and professional aplomb by appealing to the Court of Appeals; and, if necessary, as she states, to the Supreme Court where the likelihood of a victory forher and Arizona is very possible.
The Governor knows that a very large majority of the people of the United States are backing her in this contest with only the left wing politicians, labor unions and sympathetic illegal alien groups opposed. That's a lot of support for her battle and the politicians who are vulnerable in November should be taking heed of their positions.
Thomas Jefferson said: "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." Sounds like our Governor Brewer.
Gerald A. “Jerry” McConnell, 92, of Hampton, died Sunday, February 19, 2017, at the Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill, Mass., surrounded by his loved ones. He was born May 27, 1924 in Altoona, Pa., the fifth son of the late John E. and Grace (Fletcher) McConnell.
Jerry served ten years with the US Marine Corps and participated in the landing against Japanese Army on Guadalcanal and another ten years with the US Air Force. After moving to Hampton in 1957 he started his community activities serving in many capacities.
He shared 72 years of marriage with his wife Betty P. (Hamilton) McConnell. In addition to his wife, family members include nieces and nephews.
