President Obama was busy Thursday entertaining Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with local cheeseburgers. Obama paid the bill.
But in his White House mailbox the American chief executive should find a new letter from an impatient Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer about the illegal immigrant and unsecured federal border issues -- and laced with a little salsa.
The Republican governor is reminding the Democrat president that three weeks ago during their overdue Oval Office meeting he promised to send her more material within two weeks, especially regarding deployment of National Guard troops to fulfill the federal government's role of securing the nation's international borders.Arizona and Obama officials now have a June 28 meeting set.
Her letter comes the week before Obama's Justice Department is expected to sue Arizona over its tough new illegal immigrant law that seeks to enforce U.S. laws against illegal immigrants that the U.S. is not enforcing.
Citing recent reports of federal lands within Arizona being closed to Americans because they are infested with criminals and....
...potentially dangerous illegal immigrants, Brewer says: "This is unacceptable."
"Instead of warning Americans to stay out of parts of our own country," she adds, "we ought to be warning international lawbreakers that they will be detained and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." (As usual, the full text of her letter is below.)
The governor takes the opportunity to reiterate her own four-point border security surge strategy and to request overdue federal reimbursements of hundreds of millions of dollars ion state expenses for illegal immigrant costs.
Obama has maintained that securing the border with Mexico can only happen as part of a broader immigration reform package that he doesn't see happening for some time. Polls have shown, however, that about two-thirds of Americans agree with Arizona's stance on tightening immigrant law enforcement now.
L.A.Times
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