Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued a legal opinion last Friday granting the authority to Virginia police  state law enforcement officers allowing them to check the immigration status of anyone “stopped or arrested” in response to an inquiry over whether his state could mirror the policies passed into law in Arizona.

Per AG Cuccinelli:

It is my opinion that Virginia law enforcement officers, including conservation officers may, like Arizona police officers, inquire into the immigration status of persons stopped or arrested. 

This decision follows the actions of a Clinton-appointed Federal Judge who blocked Arizona from implementing the same provision in their new anti-illegal immigration law.

The difference in this ruling is that Cuccinelli reiterated in the opinion a prior finding that while state officers have the authority to arrest suspects on criminal immigration violations, they are advised against arresting over civil immigration violations. Overstaying a visa would fall under the latter category. 

Meanwhile, back in Arizona, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has had enough of Obama and his administration.

Babeu says that instead of helping law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds of thousands of people who come into the United States illegally, the federal government is targeting the state and its law enforcement personnel:

What’s very troubling is the fact that at a time when we in law enforcement and our state need help from the federal government, instead of sending help they put up billboard-size signs warning our citizens to stay out of the desert in my county because of dangerous drug and human smuggling and weapons and bandits and all these other things and then, behind that, they drag us into court with the ACLU.

The sheriff was referring to the law suits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Department of Justice challenging the state’s new immigration law.

Sheriff Babeu asked:

So who has partnered with the ACLU.  It’s the president and (Attorney General) Eric Holder himself.   And that’s simply outrageous.

Our own government has become our enemy and is taking us to court at a time when we need help.

The May 17 ACLU class-action lawsuit charges the law uses racial profiling and named the county attorneys and sheriffs in all 15 Arizona counties as defendants.  The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on July 6, charging the Arizona law preempted the federal government’s sole right to enforce immigration law.

If the president would do his job and secure the border; send 3,000 armed soldiers to the Arizona border and stop the illegal immigration and the drug smuggling and the violence, we wouldn’t even be in this position and where we’re forced to take matters into our own hands.

Per U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), about 250,000 people were detained in Arizona in the last 12 months for being in the country illegally. Babeu reminds us that number only reflects the number of people detained and that thousands more enter the country illegally each year.

Another little fact that the Main Stream Media ignores is, that, according to the CBP, 17 percent of those detained already have a criminal record in the United States.

And if Obama’s war against the states he’s supposed to be working for isn’t enough to get you mad, how about this?

On the day parts of Arizona’s immigration law, SB 1070, went into effect, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was in the news for a related reason: there’s a price on his head, offered by a Mexican drug cartel.

The audio and text message in Spanish offered $1 million for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head and $10,000 for anyone who wants to join the Mexican cartel.

An anonymous man says his wife received the text message Tuesday evening.  It also included an international phone number and instructions to pass the message along.

The man said:

She showed it to me..I was kind of disgusted..I reported it to the Sheriff’s department yesterday..they said they were going to direct the threat squad on it.

Lisa Allen of Sheriff Joe’s office says they believe the message originated in Mexico.

Even though the Sheriff has received numerous empty death threats in the past, they believe this threat has some merit to it because of its timing.

Allen says:

Arpaio gets threats pretty routinely, but obviously with this heightened awareness of his role in the immigration issue we’ve got to take this one a little bit more seriously with a million dollar contract out on him.

But what really has investigators paying attention is how quickly the message may have been spread:

It’s going so many different places that our folks are looking at it and thinking well at any given point in time it could land in front of some crazy person who thinks I can do that.

How is Sheriff Joe responding to the threat?  Allen says:

It’s a little bit like water off a duck’s back for him, but you never know if it’s that sense of false bravado with him..you just can’t read it, I’m sure he’s concerned, I’m sure he’s concerned for his family more than anything else.

The text message came from an international number, which will make it very difficult for investigators to trace.

So, while Obama and his minions attack in our own courts the very citizens that they are supposed to be serving and protecting, a Mexican drug cartel places a bounty on the head of the most well-known sheriff in America.  And Scooter wonders why his poll numbers are sinking faster than the Titanic.

Before I leave, here’s a video that will probably complete your meltdown that I have started with this blog.  Vaya con Dios, mis amigos.

Sources:  foxnews.com, cnsnews.com, my foxphoenix.com