Whose country is this, anyway?

By Michelle Malkin • January 16, 2008 10:53 AM

Arizona has a tough, new state employer sanctions law to discourage illegal immigration. It’s called the Legal Arizona Workers Act and it prohibits employers from knowingly employing unauthorized aliens; requires the Attorney General and county Attorney to investigate complaints about employers who hire unauthorized aliens; and makes it unlawful for a person to file false and frivolous complaints against an employer. If an employer knowingly employs an unauthorized alien, the act requires that the employer’s business license be permanently revoked. It requires employers to verify their employees through a free federal basic pilot program. The act makes it a crime to take the identity of another to obtain employment.

The federal courts have refused to block the law, causing an uproar among the open-borders lobbyists.

Know who else is complaining? A delegation of Mexican lawmakers, who crossed the border and traveled to Tucson to lobby.