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Illegal Aliens Are Illegal, Not Simply Undocumented » Publications » Family Security Matters

According to the May 20^th New York Times, a little girl asked First Lady Michelle Obama about immigration reform, stating, “My mom says that Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn’t have papers.” The First Lady comforted the little girl, saying, “Yeah, well that’s something that we have to work on, right?” The little girl responded, “But my mom doesn’t have any papers.”

In the same article, the President of Mexico was quoted as saying, “We will retain our firm rejection to criminalize migration so that people that work and provide things to this nation [U.S.] will [not] be treated as criminals,” meaning that Arizona should not be arresting people who illegally crossed the U.S. border and are now illegal aliens.

But why shouldn’t people who deliberately violated the law be arrested and deported? In the case of Arizona, illegal immigration has been extremely burdensome. Arizona is being overwhelmed with an estimated 500,000 illegals now in that state and more coming every day. Many of those illegals require medical services and education facilities for their children. The cost to Arizona undoubtedly runs into the multi-millions, if not billions of dollars. If the feds are failing to do their job to protect Arizona from infiltration, that state government has decided it will do the job. For that, Arizona is being denounced by President Obama and by many members of Congress. When Mexican President Felipe Calderon denounced Arizona’s law when he addressed the joint session of Congress, saying, “It is a law that not only ignores a reality that cannot be erased by decree but also introduces a terrible idea using racial profiling as a basis for law enforcement…core values we all care about are breached,” the Democrats stood up and applauded him. What an outrage, both by Congress and Calderon.