Illegal to be illegal

For more than a week, the politically correct set pushed hard to marginalize the mainstream support for Arizona's get-tough illegal immigration legislation. Race cards were played so often, their edges became frayed, their corners creased.

When Gov. Jan Brewer signed the bill into law Friday, the left erupted into full-blown hysteria. Protesters howled that the 70 percent of Arizonans who support the new statute, which cracks down on day laborers and requires police to question suspects about their immigration status if officers suspect they are here illegally, might as well fashion their white linens into robes and hoods.

"We're going to overturn this unjust and racist law," Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said, "and then we're going to overturn the power structure that created this unjust, racist law."

For decades, Arizona's border with Mexico has been all but open. Arizona faced such steep costs providing taxpayer-funded education, health care and welfare to illegal immigrants that voters have passed several ballot questions denying them public services, resident tuition and bail, among other things, to little avail.

Illegal immigrant advocates continue to take the position that states can't do anything to free themselves of these expenses -- that immigration is a federal issue. They do so knowing full well that Washington has no interest in enforcing existing immigration law.

With double-digit unemployment and Mexico's warring drug cartels brazenly taking their violent turf battles onto Arizona soil (Phoenix is now known as the ransom capital of America) law-abiding taxpayers have had enough. They want local police to have the tools to clamp down on the illegals who flout our laws and create an oversupply of cheap labor, driving down opportunities for low-skilled citizens -- many of them minorities.

How convenient for the defenders of illegals to demand that one set of laws be ignored entirely, yet claim that taking steps to enforce the law is illegal. How revealing that in screaming that police will engage in racial profiling, the champions of illegals are more than happy to profile and stereotype anyone who disagrees with them.