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America is fighting a border war. With itself.

This week,
President Barack Obama and his attorneys won a major battle. A judge
overturned portions of a controversial new law in the southern state of
Arizona aimed at fighting illegal immigration.

“Arizonans are
already very angry at the federal government,” CNN Correspondent
Jessica Yellin said. “I suspect this will only turn up the heat on that
rage.” The law has set-off a national debate about the roughly 11
million foreigners who live in the U.S. without permission and what the
country’s 300 million lawful residents should do about them.

Arizona is the most
popular route in for the ‘illegals.’ Washington has placed guards,
fences, cameras and sensors in the desert along the border.
Nonetheless, thousands of illegals from neighboring Mexico, further
south in the Americas and even as far away as China, keep finding a way
in.

“They’re doing anything and everything they can to come across,” said Thomas Rudd of the U.S. Border Patrol.

Arizona says Washington just isn’t trying hard enough to stop them.

In frustration, it
adopted a law directing its state and local police to question people
about their immigration status during any routine interaction, if there
is reason to be suspicious. Immigrants would be required to carry their
papers at all times.

President Barack
Obama called the law a ‘misguided’ effort that will target minorities
for police attention and infringe on the national government’s
constitutional authority over immigration.

The judge agreed to some extent and overturned several key provisions. But politically, the president has reason for concern.

Arizona’s law in more popular nationwide than he is.

Our CNN/Opinion
Research Corporation pollsters found that 47 percent of the public
approves of the job he’s doing overall, but fully 55 percent support
the law he is fighting.

Obama could have let Arizona have its way; no one expects the president to approve of every measure adopted in every U.S. state.

Instead he chose to challenge the law and has won. But there will be
appeals. The court case is hardly over and the political battle has
barely begun.