Commentary
Illegal Immigration, States Rights and Arizona
Commentary by Frosty Wooldridge
October 18, 2004

Illegal alien immigrants breach America’s borders by no less than 4,000 every night.  Their numbers exceed 15 million and some experts estimate 20 million.  Their impact and severity quickens in every corner of America.  Yet, Congress, like an old drunk watching a fly on the wall, sits idly by while an invasion of Third World multitudes floods every state in the Union.

Worse, immigrant numbers never end.  The world, now standing at 6.4 billion human beings, is predicted to rise to as high as 9.8 billion by 2050.  That means 10,000 new babies added per hour, 240,000 daily and over 80 million annually.  Most suffer extreme poverty while frantic for a better life.  As Neil Diamond sings, “They’re coming to America.”

But they are coming too much, too fast, too many and too unlawfully.  Arizona stands as the  state being invaded second only to California’s estimated four million illegals.  Arizona deems  water more precious than gold.  It houses over one half million illegal aliens.  The burden to Arizona taxpayers stands at over $1 billion annually.  Each Arizona household pays nearly $1,000.00 in services annually for illegal aliens and their children.   Since the Federal Government refuses to stop the onslaught, citizens created Proposition 200. 

Arizona citizens scream, “Enough is enough!”

“Perhaps the person who can be credited most with the necessity for this initiative is Governor Janet Napolitano,” Iris Lynch, a local activist said.  “In a bill that had passed both the Arizona House and Senate that would have required a recognized identification at the polling places in Arizona, the Napolitano vetoed it before an adoring crowd of LULAC activists.  That organization is one of several pro-illegal immigration and anti-American Hispanic groups in the southwest.  Their goal is to