You might not know it to listen to lots of pro-illegal-alien pressure groups, but most Americans are in favor of Arizona’s new law to fight illegal immigration.
Far from “extremist,” the law is very much in the mainstream of Americans’ beliefs, judging from the results of just a few recent surveys:
* Fifty-one percent of Americans surveyed believe Arizona’s law is “about right,” according to a New York Times/CBS poll. So does that mean all the rest are against it? Not at all. An additional 9 percent say Arizona ought to have gone even further to fight illegal immigration. Only slightly more than a third of the people surveyed said the law went too far.
* In Arizona itself, 64 percent of voters approve of the state’s new law, and not even one-third oppose it, a Rasmussen Reports poll noted.
* Sixty-two percent of voters in Florida, another state with a high number of illegal aliens, say they wish their state had a law like Arizona’s, Rasmussen found.
What’s frustrating to many U.S. citizens and legal immigrants in Arizona and around the country is that the federal government has failed horribly in its duty to protect our borders from invasion — one of its most important constitutional functions. That is why lawmakers in Arizona — which has nearly half a million illegal aliens — finally had to act.
If our Democrat-run Congress and President Barack Obama do not want other states to follow suit, then they should insist on the enforcement of existing immigration laws — and they should end all talk of granting amnesty to the estimated 11 million to 20 million illegal aliens within our borders today.