Darleen Glick Calls it Chutzpah

In Protein Wisdom.  I think she's right.  Now if Mexico would just use that Chutzpah on the drug dealers and coyotes who bring their fellow citizens over to die in the desert, that would be a good thing.

Mexico asks court to reject Arizona immigration law

Mexico on Tuesday asked a federal court in Arizona to declare the state’s new immigration law unconstitutional, arguing that the country’s own interests and its citizens’ rights were at stake.

Lawyers for Mexico on Tuesday submitted a legal brief in support of one of five lawsuits challenging the law. The law will take effect June 29 unless implementation is blocked by a court.

The law generally requires police investigating another incident or crime to ask people about their immigration status if there’s a “reasonable suspicion” they’re in the country illegally. It also makes being in Arizona illegally a misdemeanor, and it prohibits seeking day-labor work along the state’s streets.

Citing “grave concerns,” Mexico said its interest in having predictable, consistent relations with the United States shouldn’t be frustrated by one U.S. state.

Mexico also said it had a legitimate interest in defending its citizens’ rights and that the law would lead to racial profiling, hinder trade and tourism and strain the countries’ work on combating drug trafficking and related violence.

Mexican citizens should not be working in the United States in the first place (sans greencard), that is the point. Don’t want to be “scrutinized”? Then don’t break a law because you’ll only be asked for identification at that point — just like American citizens are asked for their identification when stopped by officers investigating the commission of a crime

Just in case YOU haven't read the bill...

the LA Times wants to help you:
Just click on this link.  Then scroll down to the embedded document. It's an actual copy of the law.

Two Links; one question, one answer

While not phrasing this as a question, Noemie Emery in the Washington Examiner writes:

Media still clueless about Tea Parties.

To hear the media tell it, the Tea Party movement is one of the most mysterious forces ever to surface in national life. Since February 2009, when CNBC's Rick Santelli urged his listeners to dump unfunded derivatives into Lake Michigan to protest the developing culture of bailouts, they have been nothing but open about their fears of insolvency, their discomfort with increasing size of the government and their terror of deficits.

The media listen closely to all these objections, and decide they must mean something else. They say they fear debt, and the media insist that they must fear Hispanics (why they hate Marco Rubio), that they fear blacks (why they hate Thomas Sowell), that they fear strong women (why they want Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin to be sent back to the kitchen in chains). Read the rest of her article here.So in further reading online today I find in Jewish World Review a post by Arnold Ahlert with a hopeful take on the Arizona law on the illegal immingrant's.  I take is as one of the answers to the question "What do the Tea Partiers Want?"  We want a nation of law. We honor the constitution.  Ahlert's post:

Arizona: Progressivism's Waterloo?

"For any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency…where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person…" — the essential clause in Arizona's new immigration law

There are many reasons to be thankful that Arizona has passed a sensible law to combat illegal immigration, but one of the most important ones is this: the bankruptcy of the progressive worldview and the utter abdication of anything resembling journalistic integrity by their media enablers is strutting itself across the national stage.

And absolutely nothing is better than both entities revealing their true colors to the American public.

It is impossible to measure the hypocrisy. The same media which has strained itself looking for any shred of negativity they could hang around the necks of the Tea Party movement, is apparently deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to the unruliness, overt racism and uncontrolled anger of the pro-illegal demonstrators who have branded ordinary Arizonans Nazis and racists for daring to defend themselves against an onslaught of illegal interlopers.

Now, of course he is talking about a specific and I am speaking in generalities but it answers and demonstrates the question of what the tea partiers want.  We want an unbiased news account of what is happening.  We want the constitution to be followed in every way.  We want the government to be held accountable.  We want less intrusion, not more.   Read all of both posts. Ahlert's and Emery's.

Oh, how McCain has changed

But I will back him in this case.  He has seen the light, and it shows how badly the illegal immigration process has hurt his state.  They are suffering. This is from The Hill.

McCain to Obama: Send troops to border if you don't like new immigration law

By Ian Swanson

President Barack Obama should dispatch National Guard troops to the border if he doesn’t like Arizona’s new immigration law, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Friday.

McCain, who endorsed the tough new Arizona law earlier this week, defended it as necessary because of the federal government’s inability to secure the border.

“If the president doesn’t like what the Arizona Legislature and governor may be doing, then I call on the president to immediately call for the dispatch of 3,000 National Guard troops to our border and mandate that 3,000 additional Border Patrol [officers] be sent to our border as well,” McCain said at a news conference Friday in downtown Phoenix, according to a report in the Arizona Republic.

Neocon posted what the bill really says April 20th and I think if more people read it they would not be quite so alarmed. However, this is a push issue for the Democrats and they do not want to understand any of it.