Thursday, July 8, 2010

The Arizona Immigration Suit Could Backfire On Obama

In the opinion of most legal analysts, Obama's lawsuit against Arizona looks weak. Obviously, there's more politics involved in this suit than judicial judgment. Many see this move by the Justice Department as an attempt to garner Hispanic votes in the fall. But, that logic just might be as dumb as the lawsuit itself.

First of all, in poll after poll, not less than 60% of Americans support the Arizona law and it seems, once again, Obama is at odds with the general will of the people. While he may win some votes for the Democrats, he and his party just might lose a lot of Independent and swing-voters over this issue. He also seems to forget that, theoretically anyway, illegals can't vote. Further, let's look at some statistics. Only about 1 in every 4.5 Hispanics actually voted in the last election and, of that, 32% of those votes went to McCain and other Republicans.

Secondly, I doubt that all Hispanics favor the lawsuit or, for that matter, illegal immigration. This is especially true for those who came to this country the hard way, by playing by the rules and entering legally. Yesterday, a Colorado poll was released and 62% of Colorado Hispanics actually favored the Arizona Law while, overall, 61% of all Coloradans supported it (Click here to See Story: Poll: 61% of Coloradans want Arizona law here).

Third and lastly, unemployment and the economy will probably be a bigger issue than Arizona's law. Based on the recently released June Jobs Report, Hispanic men are unemployed at a 11.3% rate with that number rising in each of the last three months (Click here to See Report Data). Hispanic women were 11% unemployed and teen Hispanics are jobless at nearly 36%. Those numbers, alone, are good enough reasons for them to reject the economic policies of Obama and the Democrats and decide to vote Republican.

Just maybe, Obama is "acting stupidly" (to use one of his favorite phrases) in bringing this lawsuit against Arizona.

One very last comment. Ever since the Arizona law was passed, the big complaint from the President and the Democrats has been that it is unconstitutional because it would lead to ethnic profiling. However, the lawsuit that was filed never once mentions the issue of racial profiling. Instead, the suit was filed on the basis that the Federal government has sole authority to enforce immigration laws. Profiling can't be an issue because the law, in its own text, clearly forbids it. So, once again, we have Obama's rhetoric being pretty far from the truth. Of course, I would be totally chastised if I stupidly said something like: "He lied!"

2 comments:

George B said...

To all those who leave foreign language comments on this blog.

I cannot publish comments that are made in any other language than English. It is impossible for me to determine which language the comment has been made in and, then, use a interpreter to understand it. When I have attempted to do this in the past, I actually found that the comments had nothing to do with my blog. In one case, I found that the my blog, through a comment, was actually being used to advertise a foreign porn site.

If you don't post in English, I won't even attempt to figure out what you are trying to say and I will simply reject the comment out of hand.

Cheryl Pass said...

Hi George...I've had the same issue with foreign language comments and had to give up trying to translate them. Mostly they are phishing expeditions trying to send our readers to some illicit place, drug business, and unassociated with our blogs in any way. I hope not to offend anyone or miss out on some great comment, but since I can't translate most of them....off they go into the reject bin.

At any rate...I love reading your posts....keep up the great communications!! I'm glad you do.