The Justice Department today filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Arizona over the new state law with regard to how Arizona will deal with illegal immigrants.  Now that the bait has been swallowed what happens next?

Yes the bait has been swallowed.  Congrats to the state of Arizona though, the law is well written, well thought out and is probably succeeding in forcing some illegal immigrants to leave the state and as such is having at least its perceived desired effect.  I suspect that the true reason though is to force the federal government to truly deal with the issue, something no one has been able to do in 40 years.  It also has the side benefit of making the administration look weak on the issue of border security, which it is.

This was a brilliant move because all the State law does is restate the current federal law and allow the states police officers to inquire if someone is in the US legally and if not then take that person into custody.  Something the justice department in 2002 noted in a memo stating that state police have “inherent power” to arrest undocumented immigrants.

Now the Obama Justice Department seeks to hide behind the Supremacy Clause in the constitution which states that federal laws take precedence over state laws, however this only applies when laws conflict, these laws don’t conflict.  Nothing in the Supremacy Clause has any bearing on enforcement.  Just because the federal government chooses to not enforce federal law doesn’t mean that states can’t enforce their laws when they are the same.

So a couple of things will likely happen with this lawsuit, the first happened today and the federal government took the bait and filed suit.  We knew the libs couldn’t take this lying down and by doing this they now set in motion the rest of the sequence of events.  We’ll have this play out in the courts for the next couple of years, maybe sooner, setting up a probable review by the Supreme Court in 2012.

The Supreme Court will most likely uphold what Arizona has done, again probably by a 5-4 vote with all of Obama’s favorite socialists voting for him and falling one vote short to the five men in black who stand between the liberal socialists and the constitution.

Then by allowing Arizona’s law to stand the floodgates will open and you will see many other states follow suit.  It will be smaller states at first like Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, and others probably in the South.  This will exacerbate the problem in states like California, Texas, and Florida because those states will be automatic safe havens for illegals.  This of course makes the problems worse in those states because the crime and expense will double or triple at least.

This may finally force the federal government to take this problem seriously and work to secure the border.  Yes that means fences, walls, border patrol agents, and better electronic surveillance.

So we thank the Obama Administration for putting their politics first and the people second.  In this instance it works to the people’s advantage…