Arizona Governor Counter-sues the Corrupt Federal Government

This just came across the transom.  Hooray for Arizona!  It is about time that they fought back against this corrupt Obama administration.  Obama must show proof that he is a natural-born American citizen.  He is not, so he has a real problem.  The guess is that he will continue to ignore the Constitution of the United States.  Shameful.

By JACQUES BILLEAUD

The Associated Press
Thursday, February 10, 2011; 4:44 PM

PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer filed a counter-lawsuit against the federal government Thursday for failing to control the border and enforce immigration laws, and for sticking the state with huge costs for jailing illegal immigrants who commit crimes.

Brewer filed the countersuit in the federal government’s legal challenge to Arizona’s new enforcement immigration law. The federal government is seeking to invalidate the law.

“Our border remains a dangerous place,” Brewer said in announcing the countersuit.

Robbie Sherwood, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona, said lawyers with the prosecutors’ office were reviewing the complaint and had no immediate comment.

The law was passed amid years of complaints that the federal government hasn’t done enough to lessen the state’s role as the nation’s busiest illegal entry point. Its passage ignited protests over whether the law would lead to racial profiling and prompted lawsuits by the U.S. Justice Department, civil rights groups and other opponents seeking to have it thrown out.

The law would have required police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person’s immigration status if officers have reasonable suspicion the person is in the country illegally. That requirement and another mandate that immigrants obtain or carry immigration registration papers were put on hold by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton.

The judge, however, let other parts of the law take effect, such as a provision that bans people from blocking traffic while seeking or offering day-labor services on streets.

Brewer challenged Bolton’s decision in an appeals court in San Francisco. She argued the judge erred by accepting speculation by the federal government that the law might burden legal immigrants and by concluding the federal government likely would prevail.

The appeal is still pending.