Arizona has passed a law that makes it illegal to be in this country, well, illegally. It also allows police to ask people about their immigration status — which was strangely not allowed before for fear of offending someone. It also makes it illegal to hire illegals as day laborers. In other words, it gives meaning to the term “illegal alien” which apparently, until this point, had just been an expression.

Naturally, the Obama White House is not amused. President Obama was said to be “amused” at Tea Partiers who strive for the values that made this country into a country in the first place, but this law to make it illegal to be an illegal is not amusing to him.

What is fascinating is that opponents to this bill exist at all. There are procedures that exist for entering and remaining in this country legally, earning those that comply the title of “immigrant” or “American citizen” as many have done before. Note that a change to those procedures is not under discussion, rather the mere non-enforcement is.

Some have said that this will lead to “profiling”. Well…yeah. This claim is almost laughable when one considers the fact that in order to prevent illegal entry of Mexicans, one may likely expect, well… Mexicans to be possible violators. Although this law presumably would affect illegal immigration from other countries as well, such immigration is apparently not the current problem in Arizona.

Arizona has an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants, and serves as the entry point for the majority of illegal immigrants and drugs moving north into the U.S. from Mexico. The White house is said to be looking into the legality of enforcing illegal immigration laws! This attitude certainly explains our current state of affairs.

From the Washington Post: The law sends “a clear message that Arizona is unfriendly to undocumented aliens,” said Peter Spiro, a Temple University law professor and author of the book “Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization.” but it is unclear to me from that quote whether or not Professor Spiro is for or against the law.

A newspaper story today showed a picture of a woman protesting the new Arizona law. Her T-shirt read “Stop the Hate”. This does not make any sense, or rather, does make sense only to the extent that she is trying to make the issue into something that it is not. I do not hate Mexicans. I believe that residents and lawmakers of Arizona by and large do not hate Mexicans either. Nor do I hate Mexican illegal aliens. Nor do I hate people who run red lights, people who steal, or people who break other laws. This is not an issue of hate. There are simply certain activities that the law does not allow, whoever may be the violators. Having demonstrations against hate is trying to solve a different problem. It is an attempt to sway the discussion away from logic and reason and into emotion and hurt feelings.

I would not be surprised to see some of the same preposterous appeasements used in airline security adopted here as well. This law targets people illegally entering the country through the Mexican border. Perhaps a racial quota will be developed where a certain number of other “profiles” will be asked to provide proof of citizenship to the police. As long as a 70 year old white woman in a wheel chair, a young white man in a military uniform, and a white priest are asked each day for identification, this should prove how “fair” the law is. Once again, bureaucratic methods of muddling the issue with the goal of appeasement until the original intent and effectiveness — and point– are lost.

So it is now official. The Obama Administration has shown that it plans on doing nothing toward stopping illegal immigration for fear that it may be seen as targeting illegal immigrants. Further, the administration has taken steps to nullify, if not disregard a state’s attempt to stem the tide. Certainly one quick and easy way to end any illegal activity is to simply make it legal with the stroke of a pen – or with that same executive pen, give orders to ignore the issue altogether.

The White House does not want to see illegal immigrants sent back out of this country. Illegal immigrants are a vast pool of potential Democrat voters. Once given amnesty, free medical care, free housing, free education, free legal counsel,free job training, free retirement plans, bilingual signs and free abortions by Democrats — paid for with the money of people who are against illegal immigration — you figure out who this freshly-minted voting bloc would vote for.

The Arizona immigration law is a simple and obvious law that is surprisingly not yet a federal law. Treating illegal immigrants as people breaking the law is not so shocking. It protects our country while rewarding those Americans who went through the proper channels and became citizens the legal way like so many have been doing for centuries.