Yesterday, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer let her feelings be known concerning Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s announcement that the Obama administration will sue over Arizona’s controversial immigration law. Brewer’s not backing down.  Not a step.

Clinton, in an attempt to be popular in South America, said in an interview with a TV station in Ecuador, that the Obama administration “will be bringing” suit against Arizona for its immigration law.  This must be news to Eric Holder.  He has said that the Justice Department still has the issue under review. 

“What a disappointment,” Brewer told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren on Thursday.  Arizona’s Governor said she was shocked the administration would make such an announcement on foreign TV without giving Arizona officials the news first. Her office had nt heard from anyone in the administration as of Thursday evening.

President Obama has spoken out against the law because he thinks that the federal government should be determining immigration policy. And the Justice Department, under his direction, will be bringing a lawsuit against the act.

President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have both been outspoken about the Arizona law, but the administration has maintained that its attorneys are reviewing the legislation to determine the next step. 

Hillary was in Latin America last week for the general assembly of the Organization of American States in Peru. 

Despite Clinton’s proclamation, a Justice spokesman said Thursday that the department “continues to review the law.”  Trouble in Paradise?

Another Justice official could not confirm whether the White House directed the department to sue, but said the White House would be within its rights to do so: 

It would not be inappropriate for the White House to tell us to sue. It’s not a criminal matter. 

A State Department spokesman said the department would defer to the Justice Department “on what legal steps are available.”

Spokesman Andy Laine said:

The president and Secretary (Clinton) have said clearly that the administration opposes the Arizona law.  A number of leaders in the region have raised the issue with the United States. It came up during her recent trip to South America. As the secretary said, a better solution is comprehensive immigration reform.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, Federal environmental laws are restricting U.S. Border Patrol agents to a foot-and-horseback strategy in the Border Patrol’s war with Mexican drug cartels and illegal immigrants who are turning wide swaths of America’s border with Mexico into a virtual no-man’s land. 

The ranking Republican on the House Parks and Public Lands Subcommittee, Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, said the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona , part of which was closed in 2006 because it was considered too dangerous for Americans to visit, is just the tip of the iceberg. 

He said there’s plenty of other parkland along the border that’s either closed to the public or is considered too dangerous because of concern about drug gangs, human smugglers and illegal immigrants, and that the problem is getting worse. 

Bishop told FoxNews.com: 

You travel here in America at your own risk.

According to Bishop, the reason the parkland along the border has become so hazardous, is because environmental regulations restrict Border Patrol from using vehicles to patrol in those areas, except in special circumstances. The problem is,  drug cartels are being pushed into those areas as immigration agents get tougher patrolling private land. 

Furthermore,  Bishop said the “irony” of the situation is that trespassers in the lawless zone are trampling the environmental habitat anyway. And he said the Obama administration’s well-publicized plan to send National Guard troops to the border will be inhibited by the restrictions on federal land: 

I don’t care how many troops you send down there — until they have access to the land, it doesn’t do any good.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, on April 23, signed the toughest legislation in the nation targeting the crime of illegal immigration. It will go into effect July 29, pending multiple legal challenges and the Justice Department’s review.

The law requires police investigating another incident or crime to ask people about their immigration status if there’s a “reasonable suspicion” they’re in the country illegally. It also makes being in Arizona illegally a misdemeanor, and it prohibits seeking day-labor work on the side of Arizona’s roads.

The law is designed to make Americans living in Arizona safer by driving illegal immigrants out of Arizona and discouraging them from coming in the first place, as Oklahoma did by cutting out free government benefits to illegal immigrants.  Arizona’s law has outraged Liberals and civil rights groups.  It has drawn criticism from Obama and led to marches and protests organized by people on both sides of the issue, including the SEIU.

The law was necessary because Congress wasn’t doing anything meaningful about illegal immigration, so the state had to address the issue.  The murder of rancher Robert Krentz by an illegal was the flashpoint that spurred the passage of the law.

If the Obama Administration thinks that the Governor and the people of Arizona are afraid of them, they have another thing coming.

Per RasmussenReports.com:

We are not going to back away from this issue.  We are going to pursue it, we’re going to be very aggressive   We’ll meet them in court … And we will win.

The population of America agrees with Arizona.

Indeed.

Sources:  foxnews.com, rasmussenreports.com