As we’ve already made more than plain here at Hard Astarboard, we completely support the bill recently signed by Arizona’s governor that, when you come right down to it, only reiterates federal immigration laws that the federal government has been shirking their duty to enforce.

Arizona has been hard hit by the toll of illegal immigration, from the violence in the border region, to the Mexican drug trafficking into their state, to the crime, loss of revenues and jobs and other effects of a flood of illegals, so they decided to do something about it, and did.

So what happens?

Other states like California, which has been hurt by criminal immigration but continues to pride itself on being a sanctuary state, are kvetching about Arizona’s anti-immigration law, but hey! States’ rights are firmly etched into the U.S. Constitution, and if Arizona feels this is in its own best interests, it is within its right to do so.

As far as this is concerned, well…

Thousands of people from around the country marched to the Arizona state Capitol on Saturday to protest the state’s tough new crackdown on illegal immigration.

Marchers carrying signs, banners and flags from the United States and Mexico filled a five-mile stretch of central Phoenix. Dozens of police officers lined the route, and helicopters hovered overhead.

Police declined to estimate the size of the crowd, but it appeared at least 10,000 to 20,000 protesters braved temperatures that were forecast to reach 95 degrees by mid-afternoon. Organizers had said they expected the demonstration to bring as many as 50,000 people.

…if the photo in the linked article is any indication, it seems like this is a largely Mexican event; I wonder what the percentage of protesters is that are Latinos, as opposed to white bread “progressives”? Granted, there’ll undoubtedly prove, at the end of the day, to have been a few thousand gringos in evidence, but then as Seth, a veteran of numerous demonstrations and counter-demonstrations has told me, the lefties tend to bus in multitudes of people to these events to bolster up their showing, basically a propaganda move — to make it look like there are a hell of a lot more people who support their agendas enough to find their own way to an event than there actually are.

Having said that,

Q. Why don’t these people from other states, likely a number of which are not being smothered as much by illegal immigration problems as Arizona has been, simply stay in their own states and mind their own business?

A. Because they’re treasonous, pink, faggot, commie liberals “progressives”, meaning that they don’t know how to mind their own business, not when there’s an opportunity available to force their anti-America programs down the throats of the unwilling.