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[coldblossom.livejournal.com]

A top Department of Homeland Security official reportedly said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities.

John Morton, assistant secretary of homeland security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the comment during a meeting on Wednesday with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, the newspaper reports.

"I don't think the Arizona law, or laws like it, are the solution," Morton told the newspaper.

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I've been really busy at work and at home these last couple of days so I've been a bit behind on the news the last couple of days. So it happens that I didn't hear about the above until I heard it on the afternoon radio show as I was driving home from work yesterday.

That a law-enforcement official (in whatever capacity) would refuse to do his job for the simple reason that he does not like a law is so completely unheard of that it defies words. I sat in gridlock in stunned disbelief at what I was hearing. And this man is allowed to do this, to keep his job, because our president doesn't believe in the rule of law, either (as he and his have proven time and again). This is the equivalent of a cop not busting a criminal...and it doesn't have to be that he doesn't like whatever law, it can be for whatever petty reason he chooses. Because neither the law nor his duty matter.

So I wrote a letter to Governor Brewer and told her that its time Arizona fully shoulders the duty of protecting itself from an obviously hostile foreign nation hell bent on invading us and from a federal government hell bent on letting it. I said we ought to return D.C.'s one-finger salute with both hands and take care of processing and deporting illegals in its entirety, sending ICE the lists of those we're deporting as a cursory "whenever you feel like doing your job, here is the info you need, but we've got it handled so don't worry your pretty little heads" notification. I told her we also should do what's been discussed for years: put the National Guard--fully armed--on the border. Arizona is a billion dollars in the hole, a billion dollars that is owed to us by the federal government in compensation for the illegal immigrants clogging our prisons--money which Gov. Brewer requests using the same letters that Gov. Napolitano herself used to send to Washington and which are still rejected, how ironic; the faster we can process these guys out of our prisons, hospitals, schools, etc the better we'll be because they'll stop coming here once they recognize that they're not welcome in any way, shape, or form. Finally, I told her that independence, self-reliance, and the rule of law are essential American ideals and we're already blazing path so why not take it to the logical next step?

Oh, the other infuriating thing about what I heard was the DJ was saying this entire scenario was a "huge flaw, big enough to drive a truck through" in SB1070. This guy is completely wrong. This isn't a deficiency in the law. I don't see how the hell the State of Arizona could've predicted that ICE, when handed illegal immigrants from Arizona, would refuse to do its JOB. I mean, what kind of a mind-screw is that? Its like living in the blasted Twilight Zone; I am waiting for Rod Serling to pop up any minute and declare our unending torment whilst pronouncing the moral to our tragic story.

Oh and I  don't know if this has hit the national news yet, but we're also staring to investigate teachers here who teach English in our public schools but aren't fluent themselves or have accents too thick for them to accurately convey correct pronunciation. It makes sense to me. After all, you expect a math teacher to know math, right?  Of course there is resistance and the detractors are crying "racism"  and "discrimination."  Of course its discrimination to reassign someone who isn't qualified to do their job! Again, Twilight Zone.