America's moral crisis is threat to our security

Without law enforcement, there is no law.

Without law, there is no justice.

Without justice, there is no security.

Without security, there is no freedom.

Without freedom, there is nothing to distinguish the United States of America from every other middling-poor debtor country in the world.

And that, in a nutshell, is why every American from sea to shining sea should be down on his or her knees thanking God for the Arizona legislature taking a courageous stand in favor of principle over politics.

But instead, we have to listen to the relentless anti-American rhetoric of politicians, media celebrities and grand-standing “civil rights” guardians who have declared that Arizona is now the devils’ country — to be spurned, boycotted, and ridiculed.

And for what?

Because Arizona has boldly declared that criminal activity by those who have entered our country illegally should be discouraged and deterred. In common parlance, this is called law enforcement, and thus should be the backbone of our liberty. Instead, it has become the rallying cry for anarchists — who think any law is tyrannical — and demagogues — who think any crisis is a means to power.

Anarchists and demagogues will eventually tear each other apart, but while it is convenient they will first try to tear the country apart. And that is where we are today, with law-breaking being rewarded and “law-abiding” being deemed code for racism.

It appears that the United States is well on its way to a moral crisis, if not a constitutional one. What else can one surmise from the topsy-turvy reaction to this new Arizona law, which merely says that a crime is a crime?

It’s not as though we didn’t all know there was a problem with illegal immigration. Arizona certainly did. Illegal immigrants comprise 11 percent of Arizona’s prison population, and in Maricopa County 22 percent of prosecuted felonies were committed by illegal immigrants.

Of course, one would hope and expect that the arrest, detention and expulsion of illegal aliens would be the business of the federal government, but counting on the D.C. politicians to fix the problem has gotten us somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal aliens in the past 25 years. If Congress saw AIG and Goldman Sachs as “too big to fail,” they apparently see the illegal-immigration problem as “too big to fix.”

That’s why Arizona’s legislature stepped forward to do what is necessary to protect their citizens and their taxpayers from the growing social and economic problems caused by having more than half a million illegal aliens in their state.

But before we scream about how Arizona has trampled on the rights of these trespassers, let’s consider what the law actually says. The key provision is this:

“No official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state may limit or restrict the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law.”

In other words, Arizona is in this law demanding that federal laws that are already on the books should be enforced.

This is a far cry from the cowardly immigration reform bill proposed by George W. Bush, which would have rewarded criminal behavior by granting amnesty to illegal aliens.

Liberals are painting the Arizona bill as “racist” and claiming that it will subject Hispanics to “racial profiling.” Those again are code words whose only purpose is to stir up fear, but the real intent of liberal opposition is plain — let the illegal immigrants stay in America because they have a “right” to be here.

If any of you really believe that — if you believe that a “right” to be in America can be conferred by the simple fact of crossing our border — then you have already given up any sense of justice and replaced it with soft-headed appeasement.