This is the latest in a series of fact-based articles on global overpopulation. Immigration, both legal and illegal, and their offspring cause over 80% of population growth in the United States.

The July issue of Middle American News, www.manews.org, has an article that tells about another measure the Obama Administration is taking against Arizona. It’s entitled "White House to Protect Licenses of Employers Who Hire Illegals."

"Blocking Arizona’s new law that enables police to identify and detain illegal aliens is not the only hostile legal action the Obama regime wants to take against common sense immigration control measures backed by the American people.

"As this issue went to press, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an interviewer in Ecuador that the Justice Department ‘will be bringing a lawsuit’ against Arizona’s new law. But in addition, the regime has already launched another legal action to protect the hiring of illegals.

"The regime’s legal team has gone to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to overturn an appeals court ruling that allows Arizona – and other states – to revoke the business licenses of employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.

"An Arizona law empowers the state to suspend or terminate the license of employers who hire illegals, but if President Barack Obama gets his way, businesses that hire illegals won’t face punishment.

" ‘If you hire a person in this country illegally knowingly, you’ll lose your license. First offense, 10 days. Second offense, revocation, never to do business in the state of Arizona again,’ said Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, R, who helped write the law.

"Hiring illegal aliens is a federal crime, but the Obama government has decided to dramatically scale back enforcement of laws against hiring illegals. Last year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that instead of apprehending, detaining and deporting illegal aliens, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would shift resources away from raids on workplaces that hire illegals. Napolitano made the announcement after receiving severe criticism from leaders of Hispanic advocacy organizations who complained that illegal immigrants were suffering ‘terror’ from being arrested.

" ‘Not enforcing the federal law while blocking states from punishing employers of illegals strongly indicates that Obama supports illegal immigration,’ said Robert Goldsborough, president of Americans for Immigration Control. ‘It is very likely an integral part of the strategy of reshaping the American electorate by letting in as many illegals as possible, and then granting amnesty or creating some other way to let them become citizens so they can vote.’

"Arizona’s law is clearly permissible under federal law. It is based on the 1986 immigration act passed by congress that preempts some state actions on immigration, but with some explicit exceptions. The law states, ‘the provisions of this section preempt any state or local law imposing civil or criminal sanctions (other than through licensing and similar laws) upon those who employ unauthorized aliens.’

"Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri, who helped write Arizona’s recently adopted law enabling police to identify illegal aliens, said Arizona’s licensing law is well grounded, ‘Congress said very clearly that licensing and similar laws can be used to impose consequences on employers who hire unauthorized aliens at state level,’ he said."