the law mirrors federal law. so if the feds aren t gonna do their job arizona is going to step up and do it. the lawsuit said this law is about attrition sole purpose to scare people out of the state. do agree? i think they attempted to scare people in responding to the initial presentation of the bill. obviously, today we found that the federal government did not address that issue of racial profiling into their lawsuit. greta: here s the best of the rest. miss california 2009 carrie prejean became famous for saying she did not support gay marriage. well, prejean is making headlines again thanks to the institution of marriage. she just tied the knot july 2nd, in san diego she married oakland raiders quarterback kyle boller. the company the couple had been dating for a year. no word if perez hilton was on the guest list.
i said sit down and work with us. arizona is ground zero on immigration reform. and we are frustrated. you and senator kyl were talking about the e-verify the sanction law in arizona i was in the legislation when we passed that we passed that out of frustration that the federal government wasn t listening wasn t doing anything. i m frustrated, disappointed. once again we are not doing anything to secure the border, make it safer for the folks living down there. greta: when you called who did you speak to? did you go as high as the attorney general and asking him not to sue your state? get i did. greta: what did attorney general holder say? first i heard was today when they filed the lawsuit. greta: what did he say? he didn t contact me directly. i found out today that the department had decided to go
that the federal government preempts the field, you would at least like to see the federal government is doing everything it can to succeed in enforcing its own laws. but it is not doing that so, i find this troublesome. it is obviously political. there are already lawsuits, as your last guest noted, already lawsuits filed. the statute will be viewed by a court and determined constitutional or not without the federal government having been involved in it. i find this troublesome that we as taxpayers having to fun the lawyers to sue the state of arizona. greta: your governor is not wilting under threat of lawsuit. listen to what she said, interesting point, she said the irony is president obama s administration has chosen to sue arizona for helping to enforce federal immigration law and not sue local governments that adopted a patchwork of sanctuary policies that directly violate federal law. seems like you can t have it
the governor signed it in the first place. so, i just find this a very distressing thing. it is a political exercise, clearly, to try to appeal to that part of the president s base that doesn t think he s pressing hard enough on the immigration issue. my guess is, the statute will not be held facially unconstitutional. greta: i think it would be helpful if the issue of racial profile profiling, it is wrong, bad, horrible, those who made those allegations if we can lay that to rest, as to this statute. it doesn t mean racism doesn t exist in this nation, as to that i think it would behoove the federal government to take more leadership on that because it has been painful. i agree many let s secure the border, it can be done, it requires some resources it requires some will power, but it can be done in the meantime, let s make sure that employers
greta: does it behoove us to get that one voice, one leader? that would move that part forward. i think it would be a mistake for us to try and get involved. one ma snore one major issue is what do with hamas. diplomacy can bridge gaps that are bridgeable. sort of it is true, at the moment particularly given the dis ray on the palestinian side, i don t disarray on the palestinian side i don t see diplomacy has a role. i see this as a period of benign neglect the opposite of the obama administration s policy. greta: thank you sir. thank you. greta: here is what is coming up on the o reilly factor. bill: the obama administration is suing arizona and will not prosecute the black panthers. and bernie goldberg on the demise of larry king coming up on the factor. greta: he s the new orleans