When the open borders lobby runs out of excuses for amnesty, their final resort is to \u201cdo it for the children.\u201d Last year Nancy Pelosi told a crowd in San Francisco that \u201cOur future is about our children\u201d and, \u201cTaking parents from their children \u2026 that\u2019s un-American.\u201d
\nWhen the Speaker of the House considers enforcing our immigration laws \u201cun-American,\u201d it becomes the constitutional duty of the States to stand against illegal immigration. This is why I introduced SB 1070 into the Arizona legislature, which has prompted a much needed national debate about immigration.
\nSure enough, we\u2019ve heard the same complaints about separating families. Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) put together a Congressional panel against SB 1070. He trotted out ten-year-old Catherine Figueroa whose illegal alien parents had stolen identities of American citizens and were detained. She sobbed lines that no doubt were scripted by her handlers: \u201cPlease help us, children don\u2019t know what to do without their parents.\u201d
\nI truly sympathize with Catherine, but her law-breaking parents are the ones responsible for her situation. SB 1070 and all other immigration laws do not split up families. Arizona Jan Brewer very sensibly pointed out that there is nothing stopping the children from going back with their parents to their nation of origin.
\nBut the truth is that these people do not care about reuniting families. They simply use children like Catherine for cheap political gain.<\/p>\n