I am having the most difficult time wrapping my head around the fact that the Obama administration refuses to follow simple immigration law.  It has nothing to do with racism, which is what the left would love for the rest of the world to believe.  It has everything to do with simply securing our borders, following established law and stopping our borders from being known a well known sieve.

The Obama administration said this week that there is no reason to sue so-called sanctuary cities for refusing to cooperate with federal authorities, whereas Arizona’s new immigration law was singled out because it “actively interferes” with enforcement.

“There is a big difference between a state or locality saying they are not going to use their resources to enforce a federal law, as so-called sanctuary cities have done, and a state passing its own immigration policy that actively interferes with federal law,” Tracy Schmaler, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., told The Washington Times. “That’s what Arizona did in this case.”

Arizona felt they had to force the hand of the Feds.  No more, no less.

But the author of the 1996 federal law that requires states and localities to cooperate says the administration is misreading it, and says drawing a distinction between sanctuary cities and Arizona is “flimsy justification” for suing the state.

“For the Justice Department to suggest that they won’t take action against those who passively violate the law –who fail to comply with the law — is absurd,” said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and chief author of the 1996 immigration law. “Will they ignore individuals who fail to pay taxes? Will they ignore banking laws that require disclosure of transactions over $10,000? Of course not.”

Uh, would this this be the same Department of Justice that refused to enforce a judgement against the Black Panthers?

Got it.  We have an idiot for a President.  Can’t wait for November 2012.