Arizona

Brewer Condemns U.N. Report

After State Dept. slams immigration law.

Maybe this will take wing-nut attention away from the Islamic center near Ground Zero? Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has attacked the State Department for including its legal challenge to Arizona’s immigration law in a report to the United Nations on human rights. Brewer called the inclusion of the Arizona law in the report “downright offensive” in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to 'review' by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional,” Brewer wrote. A federal judge blocked the most controversial portions of the Arizona law earlier this summer. The language in the State Department report to the U.N. reads, "A recent Arizona law, S.B. 1070, has generated significant attention and debate at home and around the world. The issue is being addressed in a court action that argues that the federal government has the authority to set and enforce immigration law. That action is ongoing; parts of the law are currently enjoined."