Arizona - States Rights?

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IBD Editorials Boycotting Arizona

Posted 07:11 PM ET


Grijalva: At war with his own state.
Politics: Most members of Congress like to bring home the bacon to their districts. But Arizona's Raul Grijalva wants everyone to boycott his state to protest its immigration law. Who, exactly, is he serving?

It ought to astonish onlookers to see a congressman, elected to represent the interests of Arizona's voters, instead using his office to throw them out of work.

But that's what Grijalva, a radical Democrat who represents a state with 2.3 million unemployed, is doing.

Incensed over last Friday's signing of a tough law intended to reduce illegal immigration, the congressman Wednesday called on the rest of the nation to boycott a major part of its tourism industry.

"I support some very targeted economic sanctions on the state of Arizona," Grijalva told the left-wing Democracy Now! broadcast Wednesday. "We will be asking national organizations — civil, religious, political — not to have conferences and conventions in the State of Arizona. There has to be an economic consequence to this action and to this legislation."

He had a lot of punishment in mind for his constituents, no matter how they felt about the law: "Tourism is going to suffer. Import-export is going to suffer. A potential loss of up to 700 million tax dollars from immigrants that work in state," he said, adding that Gov. Janet Brewer would be to blame.

The one-time community organizer didn't really care that Arizona has an 8% unemployment rate or that boycotting conventions would force more people onto the dole.

Using the signature Alinskyite tactics of the community organizer he once was, the law had to be fought at "a political, legal and economic level," he said. Aside from a boycott, he also wants the federal government to stop cooperating with Arizona, a move he says "would render much of this legislation moot and ineffective."

Whatever the idea behind Grijalva's war on his own state, it shows major disrespect to voters, 70% of whom support this law, including most Hispanic residents.

Grijalva's stance mirrors the party line of the radical left. And it is they who still command his loyalties, not the Arizona voters he's sworn to serve.

I (Merle) have written numerous blogs on the subject of illegal immigration. "A Way Out of Immigration Mess", dated Oct 10, 2008; "Jerry Klein", dated 5/01/07; "Obama's Plan to Legitimize Illegals" October 25, 2009, "Immigration Spin Doctors", dated6/22/07; "Illegal Immigration Alleged Costs to Our Country:, dated 6/27/08, etc.

You can find them all on mu archive sidebar which contains the dates of all 1200 plus blogs I've written. None of what I wrote is a correct answer to the problem but rounding them up and shipping them back is NOT the solution. We need a national debate on the problem soon along with a national debate on legalizing drugs. Our eradication system is not working as most of the users are in our own country. Think the users of drugs are not in all our schools? Think again. And in a large quantity of our homes yet the dealers are getting rich and killing themselves and innocent people.