Time to Curb "Sanctuary Nation?"

The United States has laws to identify and pick up illegal aliens and deport them.  But they don’t work, reports Michelle Malkin.

The reason they don’t work is because open-borders interests have sabotaged them by restricting funding for them, objecting to them on civil liberties grounds, and pushing local and state governments to forbid public employees from checking them to verify citizenship status.

This is yet another case of America’s big problem.  Want to know what it is?  Liberals get to exempt themselves from any law they don’t like. 

It’s the civil disobedience idea.  Liberals are so ethical that they have the moral stature to non-violently violate laws they don’t like.  After all if you are ethical, and all liberals are, then it stands to reason that any law you don’t like must be immoral and unjust.

The so-called “sanctuary cities” are liberal jurisdictions where liberal councils and state legislatures flagrantly order public employees to ignore federal laws intended to empower law-enforcement to identify, capture,  and deport illegal aliens. 

As Malkin reports, the sanctuary city concept is causing Rudy Giuliani a problem right now because New York City is a sanctuary city and has been ever since Ed Koch declared it a sanctuary in 1989.

Giuliani actually filed suit against the feds when Congress passed a law that “forbade local governments from barring employees from cooperating with the INS.”

In January 2000, the Supreme Court rejected his appeal, but Giuliani vowed to ignore the law.

Some day, one day, Americans are going to have to bite the bullet and insist that liberals obey the laws, even the ones they don’t like. 

Maybe the 2008 election would be a good time to run the idea up the flagpole and see if the American people salute.