This will crush the Democrats this fall.  Obama is leading his flock to 
slaughter...


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Obama administration poised to challenge Arizona immigration law

The White House is expected to file a lawsuit next week. Arizona has 
raised more than $120,000 in private donations to defend the 
legislation.

By Peter Nicholas, Tribune Washington Bureau
 
June 26, 2010

Reporting from Washington — A White House showdown with the state of 
Arizona over its tough new immigration law is likely to unfold next 
week, when the Obama administration is expected to file a lawsuit aimed 
at blocking the state's bid to curb illegal immigration on its own, 
according to people familiar with the administration's plans.

Arizona officials are girding for the legal challenge. The state has 
raised $123,000 in private donations to defend the law, according to 
Gov. Jan Brewer's office. Money has come in from all 50 states, in 
donations as little as $1.

Obama administration officials declined to reveal the basis for the 
suit. But legal experts say the challenge is likely to include the 
argument that in passing the law, Arizona violated the Constitution by 
intruding on the federal government's authority to regulate immigration.

To date, the state has been hit with five lawsuits. The law, SB 1070, 
was signed in April and is scheduled to go into effect July 29.

By confronting Arizona, the Obama administration would be making a 
political statement as much as a legal one. Obama has already criticized
the Arizona law as "misdirected." Criminal action against illegal 
immigrants is not, by itself, a satisfactory solution to the nation's 
dysfunctional immigration system, the White House says.

Obama has said that part of the remedy must include a path to legal 
status for the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally.
But with mid-term elections approaching, the president has not made the 
politically explosive issue a legislative priority for 2010.

Brewer and other Republican officials have recoiled at the prospect of a
federal suit.

"Perhaps the administration should focus on getting the assets they 
promised to the border region rather than wasting time and taxpayer 
dollars on suing the state of Arizona," said Brooke Buchanan, a 
spokeswoman for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

The Obama administration tipped its hand on its plans earlier this month
when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an Ecuadoran 
television interview that a lawsuit was coming. Outraged, Brewer said 
the administration should "inform us before it informs the citizens of 
another nation."

The Arizona law empowers police, after making a lawful stop, to verify 
the immigration status of people they reasonably suspect are in the 
country illegally.

Opponents warn that the law could be easily abused — enforced in a 
fashion that unfairly targets Latinos.

Lucas Guttentag, director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project and an 
attorney who is part of a group of civil rights organizations contesting
the law, said: "A legal challenge by the Justice Department would help 
ensure that Arizona's renegade state law, which will cause racial 
profiling and undermine effective law enforcement, does not actually go 
into effect."

peter.nicholas@latimes.com 

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