-By Warner Todd Huston
On the heels of news that the Obama administration is suing the state of Arizona over its new anti-illegal immigration law come news that the same treatment is being leveled at DuPage County, Illinois whose policies almost mirror the Arizona law…
Well, that is the headline that should be in the papers today if, that is, the Obama administration actually cared about law instead of only looking for a convenient political target which is all the administration’s focus on Arizona really is. It isn’t about immigration, illegals, the law, or any legitimate thing other than pure partisan politics. Obama thinks he has a great angle with which to pander to the Hispanic vote. That is all he cares about.
As the Chicago Tribune’s David Byrne notes, Obama is being wholly inconsistent with his attack on Arizona.
If it is unconstitutional and odious for state and local cops to enforce federal immigration laws, then why hasn’t the Obama administration sued dozens of Chicago collar counties and towns to stop them from doing it?
Byrne notes that rules for checking the status of illegals is required by… well, maybe you’ll be surprised, maybe not…
Suburban counties and some major suburbs here check the immigration status of anyone who has been booked, even for minor crimes. Even more surprising, this is done under the blessing and encouragement of … the Obama administration.
The so-called 287(g) program allows local law enforcement agencies to check the immigration status through an extensive Department of Homeland Security database of anyone who has been incarcerated and to hold anyone who has an immigration problem.
All this goes to show the hypocrisy of this current president and his lawless administration. None of them pay their taxes, none of them observe Obama’s “ethics” restrictions (Obama constantly waives them for his buddies), none of them observe the transparency rules that Obama claimed he’d implement… in short this administration just doesn’t care a whit about “law.” Byrne does a fine job exposing the hypocrisy.
Take a click over to Byrne’s piece and see all the details.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDailyReview.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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Even though the author may have meant that it is OK that our DuPage “authorities” are doing what they are doing, it isn’t. The article does point out the double standard in our so-called “rule of law”, probably not what the author intended judging by his previous comments, but any discussion is better than fear and hate.
I’ve already gone to the Westmont village board several times to talk about the potential misuse of local police if they become associated with Homeland Security and/or ICE. Our village councils only see the dollar signs if they agree to federal associations/takeovers. We’re approaching a million people in homeland security, and those are only the overt ones.
Check out your next village meeting and be there to make a simple statement: “Our local police are just that — LOCAL. We do not want to repeat how the federal government has misused our National Guard, sending them overseas to fight unjust, unneeded foreign wars. National Guard troops need to stay in this country so they can help when natural disasters strike. The Natioonal Guard is our state militia (see the 2nd Amendment); our local police work for our commnunity.”
It doesn’t hurt to remind them on a regular basis; vilage councils seem to have short attention spans.
It’s time to speak up.
Bob Mueller
Actually, I was not really commenting at all on what is happening locally but the hypocrisy of the Obama administration suing Arizona but not DuPage County.