Immigration Agents File Suit Against Napolitano Over 'Amnesty' Program

Fox News: 

Kris Kobach, lead attorney on the case, equated the move to give thousands of illegal immigrants a reprieve to the failed Fast and Furious gun-walking operation.

"In both instances, the Obama administration ordered federal law enforcement agents to break the law, to ignore the laws that they're supposed to enforce, and, in the case of the ICE agents, to actually break federal laws that say you're supposed to deport certain people," he said. "And in each case, the Obama administration seems to be doing so for political reasons."

It's an Obama World, We Just Pay for It

Via Gateway Pundit:  Obama is now paying illegal aliens to come here.

Obama's Risky Campaign Strategy

James Taranto: 

Mr. Obama cultivated an image as a unifier able to transcend partisan, ideological and racial divides.

Four years later, he is a divisive incumbent defending a grim status quo of his own. Having lost the broad appeal he enjoyed in 2008, he is making narrow appeals to particular voting blocs with the apparent aim of shoring up support and turnout. . . .

To appeal to single women, he picked a fight with the Catholic Church by refusing a conscience exemption from the ObamaCare birth-control mandate. For Hispanics, there was the promise of lax immigration enforcement against illegal aliens who arrived in the U.S. as children. His "evolution" on same-sex marriage seemed designed to appeal not just to gays but also to young voters, whose attitudes on the subject tend to be liberal.

But these calculated overtures carry risks. In appealing to particular demographics, the president may be alienating other Democratic or swing voters.

Read the whole thing.

Big Sis to AZ, Supreme Court: Drop Dead

What's so great about the rule of law anyway?

A Bad DREAM?

Mickey Kaus:  The maddening details of Obama's DREAM Decree.

What Will Hundreds of Thousands of Job Permits Do to the Economy?

Ed Morrissey:  With potentially as many as 800,000 new workers flooding into the system, what happens to the millions of Americans who can’t find work now?

Immigration Laws? What Immigration Laws?

Probably the biggest news that I missed while out of town last week was Obama's unilateral decision to selectively stop enforcing the nation's immigration laws in a manner he sees as politically expedient.  Here are a few commentaries.

John Hinderaker observes that this is but the latest example of Obama undermining the rule of law.

Michael Ramirez

Bob Krumm looks at the precedent, however, and finds a silver lining for conservatives.

Another Bad Day In Court For Obama?

It would certainly appear so. Especially when even Justice Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, told the administration their argument "isn't selling very well."  That's probably because the administration's position in opposing the Arizona immigration law is so indefensible   As John Hinderaker put it:

what is going on here is that [the] Obama administration doesn’t want to enforce the immigration laws that Congress has enacted. The essence of its position in the Arizona case is that the federal government has the right to decide not to enforce the law, and if it so decides, then no state has the power, under the Constitution, to do anything that would tend to enforce those federal laws. So if the Obama administration decides that it will gain political advantage by ignoring federal laws against illegal immigration, states like Arizona just have to take the consequences without complaining.

They can't fault the Solicitor General for struggling to make that argument.

Obama Goes to South America to Rip Romney/Republicans on Immigration

I always believed it was inappropriate for Americans to criticize America or their political opponents abroad.  We should keep our internal conflicts internal and leave them at the border, in order to advance America's best interests. 

Maybe I am just old-fashioned, however, because now we even have a president who shows no such restraint.  This weekend in Columbia, in an effort to bolster his support among Latino voters, Obama attacked Republicans and Mitt Romney in particular, saying, among other things, that "his support for Arizona’s tough immigration law is 'very troublesome.'"  I would be curious as to whether another sitting president has ever attacked his American political opponents so publicly while abroad.  I would also be curious as to what Obama might be promising the South American leaders he meets in exchange for their support of his reelection.   

Are You "Them!"?

Victor David Hanson:  "This is proving to be a Manichean administration. It sees the world in terms dark and light, of us/them, and then must create the necessary binaries to divide and demonize—so strange given this was the narrative of the Obama campaign against Bush, not so strange given the Chicago origins."