Palin to Obama: “Do your job!”
SARAH PALIN CHALLENGES PRESIDENT OBAMA TO SECURE BORDER, Wired from CNN
PHOENIX, Az – Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin joined the national battle over Arizona’s controversial new immigration law Saturday, appearing with Gov. Jan Brewer in Phoenix to denounce the Obama administration’s criticism of the law. “It’s time for Americans across this great country to stand up and say ‘We’re all Arizonans now and, in clear unity, we say Mr. President, do your job, secure our border,’” Palin said, standing beside Brewer at a Saturday afternoon press conference. Brewer used the event to announce her first appointment to the state’s new Joint Border Security Advisory Committee and the launch of a Website to combat what she said was a national misinformation campaign about the state’s new law.
Palin and Brewer, both Republicans, decried plans by opponents of the new law to boycott the state in protest. Passed in April, the law requires immigrants in Arizona to carry their registration documents at all times and allows police to question individuals’ immigration status in the process of enforcing any other law or ordinance. Critics say it will lead to racial profiling, while supporters deny that and say it is needed to crack down on increasing crime involving illegal immigrants. President Obama has criticized the Arizona law, saying that in dealing with the immigration issue, “the answer isn’t to undermine fundamental principles that define us as a nation.”
“You can imagine if you are an Hispanic American in Arizona, your great grandparents may have been there before Arizona was even a state, but now suddenly if you don’t have your papers, and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you’re gonna be harassed,” Obama said, referring to the statute at a April rally in Iowa. “That’s something that could potentially happen,” he said. “That’s not the right way to go.” Brewer signed a package of changes to the law shortly after it passed that she said addressed concerns about profiling, though critics said the changes made little difference.
Palin joined Brewer on Saturday in denying the statute would lead to racial profiling. “I think for most American people the reaction to that would be, ‘Why aren’t (police) already doing that?’” the former Alaska governor said. “And while Mexico’s president has begun to crack down on the violent drug cartels and corruption in his own country,” she continued, “It’s time for the United States government to enforce the rule of law as well.” Brewer also took jabs at Obama and the federal government. “Our border is being erased and our president apparently considers it a wonderful opportunity to divide people along racial lines for his personal political convenience,” she said.
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May 16th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
That law in that state with that governor is not the blueprint for comprehensive immagration reform.
I say boycott that state and treat them like they don’t exist anymore.
Having said that,the states of Missouri and Kansas are much better,especially when you consider that they have state legislatures that can’t balance their respective budgets with the people in mind.
May 16th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
I meant to say Missouri and Kansas aren’t that much better.
May 16th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Oh wait a minute!
Did Sarah Palin have nerve to tell the President to do his job?
Well at least he’s still on his! He doesn’t quit when the pressure is on!
And I think that it’s G.O.P. leaders who have gone on national T.V. and said that there will no attempt at immagration reform before the end of the year,so that money grubbing political diva needs to get a clue,along with the morons who follow her!
May 16th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Palin is a racist and bigot. I am not surprised she is SUPPORTING the immigrtion law. Im waitn for her to pull a sheet over head with holes cut out for the eyes and mouth.
May 17th, 2010 at 6:15 am
why do people LISTEN to palin…that babe is dumb as hell
May 17th, 2010 at 7:23 am
Hey Wayne!
I almost forgot to mention that the law that “The Quitter” supports also proposes to eliminate ethnic studies because they may tend to generate hostility against white people.
In other words,Gov. Brewer doesn’t want white people to be reminded that they have relatives who kidnapped enslaved slaughtered and discriminated against Africans,Hispanics,Native Americans,Jews,other Eastern Europeans,Germans and the Irish.
In other words they don’t like mirrors.
May 17th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
why do people listen to Palin you ask??? because shes hot
July 15th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
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