Justice Department will not sue sanctuary cities which fail to comply with federal law

  In light of the Justice Department’s decision to sue Arizona for basically trying to enforce federal law, the very same Justice Department just this week announced that they will not sue sanctuary cities for refusing to cooperate with the federal government where the federal government is trying to enforce immigration law.

  There is a big difference between a state or locality saying they are not going to use their resources to enforce a federal law, as so-called sanctuary cities have done, and a state passing its own immigration policy that actively interferes with federal law

  The spin that the Obama regime is putting on these two cases is astounding. The justice department is claiming that because Arizona is trying to enforce federal immigration law– law that the federal government refuses to enforce– that somehow they are interfering with the federal government’s prosecution of the law, even though the federal government is not enforcing the law. If the federal government is not enforcing the law, how can Arizona be interfering with the federal government? But the Justice Department claims that because sanctuary cities are not using local funds to enforce federal immigration law– even though they are actively interfering in the prosecution of the law by their refusal to carry out the will of the federal government– that somehow their refusal to comply with federal law as applaudable.

  Let me apologize here for the convoluted nature of that last paragraph, but it just highlights the convoluted logic of the federal government in these two cases. Jan Brewer’s statement on this decision says exactly what I was trying to say, only a whole lot better than I ever could:

President Obama’s administration has chosen to sue Arizona for helping to enforce federal immigration law and not sue local governments that have adopted a patchwork of ‘sanctuary’ policies that directly violate federal law. These patchwork local ‘sanctuary’ policies instruct the police not to cooperate with federal immigration officials

  Jan Brewer is exactly right, the federal government has this backwards. If you try to enforce the law, you end up being sued by the federal government; if you interfere with the federal government, nothing is done.

  This is hardly a new phenomenon with the left however– we see it constantly on other issues– such as the second amendment. The left is always trying to pass over-reaching restrictions on gun ownership by law abiding citizens; yet those who commit violent crimes with weapons that are purchased illegally are given light sentences because they are victims of an unjust society, therefore they are not at fault. That also seems to be part of their justification in this case as well.

  It is quite apparent that the federal government does not only not have a problem with people coming into this country illegally, but by their actions they prove that they actually condone it. After all, in an unjust society the criminal who breaks into this country illegally can not be held accountable for what this administration sees as a fundamental flaw in American law.