They just keeping making my case for me.

Deputy shot, illegals suspected

The story this link points to just another piece of the mountain of eivdence that shows why the Arizona immigration law is the right thing to do, and why it also right for other states, like Texas. Despite what governor Rick Perry, who is now I believe wrong for Texas, might think.

This story tells about some hardworking illegal immigrants who are believed to have shot a deputy who was trying to keep them from working to support themseves and their families. What was it they were working so hard at? In this case it was smuggling marijuana across the border. No doubt some of the same people protesting the law will use this example of fine, hardworking immigrants being harassed and shooting the deputy out of self-defense to try and make their case against immigration laws.

Or they may use the case of another hardworking immigrant, Juan Luis Martinez of San Angelo Texas, who activists say was gunned down in cold blood by a shop owner. Martinez walked into Cano's Diamonds in San Angelo waving a gun, attempting to rob the place. Yet another fine, upstanding immigrant just trying to make a better life for his family. As he was confronting store owner William Cano, an employee walked up from the back of the store. Martinez panicked and fired his gun at Cano. He missed. Cano, a retired Marine, returned fire and did not miss. Martinez left Cano's store in a body bag.

These are just two of many cases of fine, decent, upstanding undocumented workers who are being maligned and harassed for simply trying to make a better life for themselves. I'm sure I could site many others, but I think you get my point.

How many more people like this deputy, or the Arizona rancher, or the Dallas, TX police officer gunned down by a criminal immigrant a few years ago, have to die before we as a nation wake up and realize that Arizona got it right?! What is the magic number? How high does the body count have to go? What is it going to take for us to see that the remaining 49 states need to follow Arizon'a lead and enact smiliar laws? And are the states that have governors who lack the courage and spine to do so going to remove them at the ballot box next election? I certainly hope so and I hope Texas is the first to do so by getting rid of the spineless Rick Perry.

Arizona made it clear that illegal immigrants and activist groups like La Raza and LULAC and others are not runnig their state and that they DO NOT set or dictate immigration policy. We need more states like Arizona with governors like Jan Brewer. We need a federal government led by a President who actually cares about this country and doing what's best for our national sovereignty and security instead of one who is in bed with these activist groups. Until we get more of these courageous leaders, we will continue to have an out of contrtol criminal immigration problem in this once great country. As long as we continue to let criminal immigrants and the activists that support them run our country and dictate policy to our so-called leaders, our nation's greatness will continue to diminish.

Jim L. Chitty