Arizona has been "the nation's punching bag" since passing the state's tough immigration bill a few months back, says Laurie Roberts in The Arizona Repubic. Maybe it's time to start punching back. President Obama's "emissaries" are dropping in on Gov. Jan Brewer this week as the Justice Department prepares to file a lawsuit to stop the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants. Before they do, Brewer might want to send Obama the bill for the $150 million the state shells out every year to incarcerate illegal immigrants. After all, it's the federal government's job to keep people from crossing the border into the U.S. without proper papers, so why shouldn't Washington pay the "burden that exists because the federal government can't — or won't — do its job"? Here, an excerpt:
"Instead of our own government suing us this week — what, five lawsuits over SB 1070 isn't enough? — perhaps the Justice Department might like to conserve its resources and pay its bills which, in Arizona, are long, long past due.
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