reply to post by MikeNice81
According to reports, Arizona law enforcement officers, received training by federal ICE personnel, in federal enforcement of federal immigration
laws. This was paid for with stimulus money and was aimed at allowing State and local police to reinforce and expand the resources avalible to ICE to
deal with ever increasing load.
“Part of the law that the governor signed makes it illegal for any "officials, agencies, and political subdivisions" to refuse to cooperate with
or hinder federal laws and law enforcement.”
Arizona lawmakers would be derelict in their duty not only to the federal government but to the citizens of their state if they did not use state
resources to attempt to enforce federal immigration laws, in lieu of the federal government’s inability to do so
The ruling the judge passed down limited Arizona as to what sections of its state law it could enforce. It did not in any way address the issue of
state police enforcing federal law as it applies to Illegal immigration. Their trained for it, and until the federal government can respond with
adequate resources to control this problem it has an obligation to do so.
Arizona lawmakers also take an oath to defend the people and the rights they as citizens have in their state.
Article 4 section 4 clause 2
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and
on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
The Executive of the state of Arizona as well as the legislature have made such Application and the federal government has failed to respond. It falls
to the state governments as members of the federation of states, to see that federal laws are enforced and that the people of their state are
protected, until such time as the federal government can address the crisis.
[edit on 7/30/2010 by Phedreus]
Let 'em try to make it go upwind. 
