Thursday, July 8, 2010

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By Michelle Malkin

The Obama administration's lawsuit against Arizona, officially unveiled on Tuesday,

is an affront to all law-abiding Americans. It is a threatening salvo aimed at all local,

county or state governments that dare to take control of the immigration chaos

in their own backyards. And it is being driven by open-borders extremists who have

dedicated their political careers to subverting homeland security policies in the

name of compassion and diversity.The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division,

headed by Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, took the lead in prepping

the legal brief against Arizona. The son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic,

Perez is a far-left lawyer and activist who worked for the late mass illegal alien

amnesty champion Ted Kennedy and served in the Clinton administration DOJ.

While holding down a key government position there in which he was entrusted

to Perez rose from CASA de Maryland volunteer to president of the group's board of directors

Under the guise of enhancing the "multicultural" experience, he crusaded for an

ever-expanding set of illegal alien benefits ranging from in-state tuition discounts

for illegal alien students to driver's licenses. CASA de Maryland opposes enforcement

of deportation orders, has protested post-9/11 coordination of local, state and national

criminal databases, and produced a "know your rights" propaganda pamphlet for illegal

aliens depicting federal immigration agents as armed bullies making babies cry.

In 2006, CASA de Maryland threatened to protest at the schools of children whose

parents belonged to the pro-immigration enforcement group Minuteman Project --

and then headed into the Montgomery County, Md., public schools to recruit junior

amnesty protesters who were offered school credits for traveling with CASA de

Maryland to march on Washington.

As a former Maryland resident, I got to see Perez's militant friends and colleagues in

action. I watched CASA de Maryland President Gustavo Torres (who met with

President Obama last week) complain that motor vehicle administration officials

have "absolutely no right to ask for people's Social Security number or immigration

status to get a driver's license." I stood among CASA de Maryland grievance-mongers

who shouted, "No license, no justice! No justice, no peace!" while playing the race

card against naturalized Americans and legal immigrants who opposed the illegal

alien welfare state.

Perez himself derided secure-borders citizen activists as "xenophobes," but denied

painting the grassroots immigration enforcement movement as racist. Questioned by

GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions during his Obama DOJ confirmation hearing last year about

the illegal alien rights guide produced by CASA de Maryland, Perez grudgingly

stated that "the Civil Rights Division must not act in contravention to valid

enforcement actions of our federal immigration laws." But "act(ing) in contravention"

is exactly what the Civil Rights Division is doing in spearheading the challenge

to Arizona's valid enforcement actions of our federal immigration law.

Perez, Attorney General Eric Holder and the rest of the open-borders DOJ team

have invoked a "preemption" doctrine based on the U.S. Constitution's supremacy

clause to attack Arizona's anti-illegal immigration measure and oppose local and

state enforcement of federal immigration laws. Never mind that the Arizona law

was drafted scrupulously to comply with all federal statutes and the Constitution.

You gotta love Obama's fair-weather friends of the Constitution. When a state acts to

do the job the feds won't do, Obama's legal eagles run to the Founding Fathers for

protection. When, on the other hand, left-wing cities across the country pass illegal

alien sanctuary policies that flagrantly defy national immigration laws and hamper

cross-jurisdiction enforcement, the newfound federal preemption advocates are nowhere in sight.

abide by the rule of law, Perez volunteered for CASA de Maryland -- a notorious illegal

alien advocacy group funded through a combination of taxpayer-subsidized grants

and radical liberal philanthropy, including billionaire George Soros' Open Society

Institute (not to mention more than $1 million showered on the group by Venezuelan

thug Hugo Chavez's regime-owned oil company, CITGO).


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