Obama Citizenship

AZ Update: Half a Million Raised to Defend State Against the Feds

By Phil

Gov. Jan Brewer Accepts Donations to Defend Arizona Illegal Immigration Law: Will You Donate? (AP Photo)

While a more full update is due on this topic*, the defense of the great State of Arizona against a lawsuit (of all things) from the federal government was worth its own posting (h/t AmericanGrandJury). The AP reports the following excerpt in their article:

Donors contacted by the AP said they contributed because the federal government should be helping Arizona, not taking the state to court.

Gov. Brewer had initially begun the Governor’s Border Security and Immigration Legal Defense Fund (the State is being defended by private counsel and not its Democrat State Attorney General; the funds may even be tax-deductible, because they may be classified as donations to the State) on May 26, having received $10,000 in unsolicited donations at the time.

Since then, donors from across the United States, D.C. and Puerto Rico have donated sums the majority of which have been $100 or less, raising the total to $500,000. Apparently only two of the 9,057 online contributions came from businesses, and 7,008 of those came immediately after the feds announced their lawsuit against the State.

From ABCNews:

“The law mirrors federal law, so if the feds aren’t going to do their job, then Arizona’s going to step up and do it,” Brewer said, calling the lawsuit a waste of taxpayer money.

@GovBrewer statuses of note:

Feds to file suit against AZ today. Want to stand with us? Donate to the defense fund. http://bit.ly/bkQzZc 9:48 AM Jul 6th

We will be very aggressive in defending our law. Donate to help keep AZ safe. http://bit.ly/bkQzZc 10:19 AM Jul 6th

I will not stop fighting. I will defend AZ and continue to do the job Obama refuses to do. Join us. http://bit.ly/bkQzZc 2:40 PM Jul 6th

AZ’s immigration law is 13 pages long. Obama’s lawsuit against it is 25. (HT to @ExJon) Defend AZ! http://bit.ly/bkQzZc 4:41 PM Jul 6th

Wow! At 1:30pm yesterday, AZ’s defense fund was roughly $163k, at 9am this morning it was $363k. Keep it up! http://bit.ly/bkQzZc 6:23 PM Jul 7th

Update: we have raised almost $500k for AZ’s defense fund. Help us stand up to the Feds. http://bit.ly/bkQzZc Please RT!

Here’s the site:

* Due to intermittent Internet connection issues, I’ve had to take any extra time away from this blog to get things resolved. I’d like to post a more full posting describing the details of what’s been going on with the lawsuit. Suffice it to say that the actual filing does not address any sort of racial issues except as a separate memo filing, according to my understanding. Essentially, the feds whine that the State somehow does not have the right to defend itself, that it should be up to the feds, and that States shouldn’t be circumventing federal policy, even if said policy means that no enforcement outside of the feds should occur.

Well, at least someone at the federal level will have had to take the time to actually read Arizona’s law, because the Judge is going to ask the Plaintiffs, essentially, by what right does a State not have to defend itself.

-Phil

Email: phil [at] therightsideoflife [dot] com

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Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).