"States have the authority to enforce immigration laws and protect their borders",
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said Wednesday in a legal brief on behalf of nine states supporting Arizona's immigration
law.Alabama, Florida, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia.
The new Arizona law, directs officers to question people about their immigration
status during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic stops and if there's a reasonable suspicion they're in the U.S.
illegally.
Mr. Potato Head's administration recently
filed suit in federal court to block the law, arguing immigration is a federal issue. Arizona and many others say Congress
isn't doing anything about illegal immigration, so it's the state's duty to protect their citizens.
"Arizona, Michigan and every other state have the authority to enforce
immigration laws, and it is appalling to see President Obama use taxpayer dollars to stop a state's efforts to protect its
own borders," Cox said in a statement.
Arizona's
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, in a statement released by Cox's office, said she was thankful for the support.
In a telephone interview, Cox said the nine states supporting Arizona represents
"a lot of states," considering it was only two days before that he asked other state attorneys general to join him.
The brief was filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona on the same day as the deadline for such filings.
"By lawsuit, rather than by legislation, the federal government seeks
to negate this preexisting power of the states to verify a person's immigration status and similarly seeks to reject the assistance
that the states can lawfully provide to the Federal government," the brief states.
More evidence that Mr. Potato Head and his Hasbro Congress don't have a clue as to what the
American people want or need. Yeah, let's print and spend more federal dollars to file a lawsuit against those damn
Arizona citizens that think they have a right to protect themselves. Mr. Potato Head, you're in way over your spud!
