The Justice Department files a lawsuit against Arizona’s immigration law

The Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to strike down Arizona’s immigration law. No, not Arizona’s new controversial immigration law that has received so much attention lately, but an immigration law that was signed in 2007 by then governor Janet Napolitano.

The suit is being brought up on the grounds that it is unconstitutional because it forces private businesses to check the immigration status of potential employees using e-verify. This suit is being brought forward not by businesses that do not want to verify the immigration status of potential employees, but by those potential employees who do not want their immigration status verified.

Let me state up front that I support Arizona’s new immigration law as well as the law in question here– I do not have a problem with companies being told they must use the e-verify system before hiring an employee. If a company is going to be punished for hiring illegal immigrants shouldn’t they have the proper tools in place to make sure that the people they are hiring are in the country legally?

But what I do have a problem with is the duplicity– or should I say hypocrisy– of people like Janet Napolitano, who have come out against the new Arizona law when she signed a law that could lead to the same type of racial profiling that she is supposedly against.

I know that critics will claim there is a difference between an employer using e-verify before hiring a person and law enforcement asking for a person to verify his or her immigration status, but racial profiling is racial profiling– is it not? Are there different degrees of racial profiling? Are some forms of racial profiling acceptable? It would certainly seem that this is the case in Janet Napolitano’s mind. She signed a bill that would allow racial profiling on one level, while coming out against a bill– that she admitted she hasn’t bothered to read– because it supposedly would allow racial profiling on another level.

You can’t have it both ways Janet Napolitano.

In a perfect world, businesses wouldn’t have to worry about whether a person is here legally or not because they would be able to trust the government to enforce immigration laws, but sadly that is not the case and so Arizona has taken matters into its own hands with their new immigration law. This has drawn the fury of the left; including people like Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and Janet Napolitano.

When Janet Napolitano was governor of Arizona and still had her state’s best interests at heart she signed a bill that had a form of racial profiling in it. But now that she has left the state and is a big shot in the Obama regime, she has forgotten the troubles that her state has with violence and drugs at the hands of illegal immigrants at the border, and so she has condemned an attempt by the current governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, to protect her citizens’ best interests because it is falsely rumored to contain some of the same racial profiling that she signed into law as governor.