The Family Loftus

The other day, the White House (read: Bar­rack Obama) directed the US Depart­ment of Jus­tice to bring legal suit against Ari­zona for their recent SB1070, anti-illegal immi­gra­tion bill. Prior to this action, the White House and lib­eral crit­ics held that the bill was racist because it pro­motes racial pro­fil­ing. In the law­suit filed, the DOJ glar­ingly makes no men­tion of race or racial pro­fil­ing. So, that, appar­ently, is not really an issue.

No, the DOJ, in the law­suit brief, main­tains that immi­gra­tion mat­ters are reserved for the fed­eral gov­ern­ment. If this is so, where then are the fed­eral law­suits against sanc­tu­ary cities?

You see, the US gov­ern­ment has sev­eral laws that reg­u­late immi­gra­tion to this coun­try. The gist of these laws is that immi­grants need to process paper­work in an appeal for per­ma­nent entry into the coun­try. Sanc­tu­ary cities, how­ever, bla­tantly con­tra­dict these laws and wel­come immi­grants who are in the coun­try illegally.

So, Mr. Gibbs, spokesman for the White House (read: Bar­rack Obama), where are the law­suits against these cities?

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