Yesterday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) signed into law one of the most comprehensive and strict immigration law packages in the country. Among some of the items in it is a requirement that asks for the birth certificates of all presidential candidates who run and are on the ballot in Arizona. After it was signed into law, President Obama immediately started to criticize it. This is not surprising, seeing as how President Obama has done virtually nothing to solve the issue of immigration.
In the past, most immigrants came into the United States through either Ellis Island or Angel Island and were legal. Today, a lot more immigrants are coming into the United States illegally, either through one of our coastal cities or from Mexico in the South through into Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, or California. We need to secure our borders so that we know who is coming into the country. If we don't know who is coming into the country, then we don't know what new diseases could be introduced into this country. I mean no harm by my previous statement but we need to biologically monitor what comes into this country so we don't have problems like what happened to the Native Americans when the Spaniards came to America back in the 1400-1500's.
I support this immigration bill because it does what the Federal government has not done--secure the borders. Arizona has every right to pass this bill because that power is not given to the Federal government in the Constitution and so therefore that power is deferred to the states. If another state were to pass an immigration bill that was completely different from this I would still support the right of that state to do it because it is not a power given to the Federal government in the Constitution. I do believe it will be interesting to see what happens in the future with immigration law and what the Federal government does to change it.
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