The now-famous picture of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer shaking her finger at President Barack Obama is both appropriate and deserved. In America, we don’t have rulers entitled to the deference and obsequiousness other countries show to their kings; our elected officials are ordinary citizens whom we are free to criticize.

First the Obama administration sued Arizona over its illegal immigration law, then Alabama over its law. Now the administration is suing South Carolina.

Since Arizona passed SB 1070, an anti-illegal immigration law that allows local law enforcement officers to inquire about legal status after a crime has been committed, in April 2010, at least 30 other states have…

ICE union president Chris Crane told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration that the new ICE policy puts both the public and ICE agents at risk. In order to slash the number of deportations and arrests for traffic offenses or lack of proper identification, law enforcement agencies in a major U.S

Republicans are calling for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself during his testimony regarding “Operation Fast and Furious.” Republican lawmakers are demanding a special counsel to investigate the Obama Administration's “Operation Fast and Furious” snafu.

Barack Obama responded to Republican charges of “class warfare” by saying he’s proud to be “a warrior for the middle class.” But what battles-or even skirmishes-has he ever won for working families?

Both CBS's “Early Show” and CNN's “Newsroom” sought out Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday for her reaction to President Obama's “stop complaining” rejoinder to the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday, but neither outlet mentioned the continuing ethics investigation into the ultra-liberal Democrat

From The Heritage Foundation: Senator Orrin Hatch came to The Heritage Foundation on Friday to present his forthcoming immigration bill—“The Strengthening our Commitment to Legal Immigration and America’s Security Act.”  His remarks, and the content of his bill, are a step in the right direction on immigration and border security—given that President Obama used his State [...]

From Michelle Malkin: From the “this just in” file: PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has announced the state will sue the federal government for its failure to secure the border and enforce immigration laws. Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne held a news conference Thursday to announce their fight in the face of a federal [...]

From CNSNews.com: In at least three court cases, President Obama’s Justice Department has argued in favor of federal law enforcement officers using race as a factor in determining whether to stop someone for a suspected immigration violation. It has done so despite the fact that the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report [...]

From CNSNews.com: In the first ever U.N.-mandated self-assessment of America’s human rights record, the Obama administration has informed the world body that it remains committed to closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and to “fixing our broken immigration system.” A report delivered to the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva on Friday and [...]

From CNSNews.com: Twenty-two states are now in the process of drafting or seeking to pass legislation similar to Arizona’s law against illegal immigration. This is occurring despite the fact that the Obama administration has filed a lawsuit against the Arizona law and a federal judge has ruled against portions of that law – a ruling [...]

From Intellectual Conservative: On the heels of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ 258-0 “vote of no confidence” against their superiors, U.S. Border Patrol agents are slamming President Barack Obama’s administration, especially Attorney General Eric Holder.“We are receiving reports . . . that Eric Holder and DOJ have signaled that they [will continue to] challenge SB1070. If this development wasn’t [...]

From Michelle Malkin: I know border security hucksterism when I see it — whether it’s from Democrats or Republicans. Longtime readers will remember that when pro-shamnesty President Bush and the GOP backed a Secure Fence Act in 2007, I called it what it was: The Fence in Name Only. Sadly, the call was alltoo right. Today, the president will [...]

From CNSNews.com: As the Senate reconvened on Thursday, taking a rare break from its August recess to pass a $600-million bill to fund border security provisions that had passed in a specially-reconvened-session of the House on Tuesday, new numbers from the Gallup Poll showed that only 29 percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling the immigration issue. [...]

From Fox News: In a decision that could lay the groundwork for an Arizona-style immigration policy, Virginia’s attorney general said state law enforcement officers are allowed to check the immigration status of anyone “stopped or arrested.” Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued the legal opinion Friday extending that authority to Virginia police in response to an [...]

From Townhall.com: When Obama could have passed comprehensive immigration reform — when he still had 60 Senate Democrats — he didn’t lift a finger to push it. Now that he can’t pass it — it is too late in the year, he doesn’t have 60 votes and many Democrats will defect — he aggressively pushes [...]

From Michelle Malkin: The most glaring sign that President Obama’s announcement of border funding and National Guard troops is one big, phony charade? He apparently didn’t even bother to let the governor of besieged Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer, know about it. Via Yahoo News: The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it will send as [...]

From CNSNews.com: Phoenix (AP) – President Barack Obama’s plan to send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border appears to be a scaled-down version of the border security approach championed by his predecessor. The 6,000 troops who were sent by President George W. Bush to the border from June 2006 to [...]

From the Washington Examiner: We know one thing for sure about the fight over Arizona’s new immigration law. Civil-rights groups will file a lawsuit trying to kill the law and will ask a federal judge to issue an injunction to keep it from taking effect as scheduled this summer. What we don’t know is how [...]