PHOENIX – Law officers backed by helicopters hunted gunmen in Arizona’s desert early Saturday after a sheriff’s deputy was wounded by suspected illegal immigrants believed to be smuggling marijuana, officials said. The violent episode came amid nationwide debate over the state’s tough new immigration law.
From: Arizona deputy shot; illegal immigrants suspected – Yahoo! News
President Obama has been saying that comprehensive immigration reform will have to wait until next year. Whether you read that as amnesty or whatever is your own political beliefs. You know what doesn’t have to wait or shouldn’t wait, Mr. President? You acting in your capacity as commander in chief and chief executive in getting more forces down there near the border and guarding against this sort of garbage. You don’t like the SB1070 law? Well neither do I; stop giving the other side ammo to use against you!
Oh, and to the supporters of Arizona’s “Show me Your Paperz” bill: nothing about that law would have stopped what happened here. First off, if you don’t think you have probable cause to arrest, search and question a handful of men carrying AK-47s (wonder where they got THOSE from?) and a few pounds of the ganja under the law as it stands you are smoking something. Either way I think the requests for papers would have stopped the moment the guns started.
But the supporters of the Arizona law are going to capitalize on this issue while you wait for immigration reform. Let me spell this out to you: men with guns and weed aren’t looking for a better life in America. They’re looking for cash. You have the tools at your disposal to stop or seriously hinder this. Use them.
