I’m with Allahpundit: He won’t do his job because he doesn’t like a law? Fire him. It’s not his place to determine if a law is nice or effective. His job is enforce the law. He doesn’t like it? I didn’t ask, and neither did legislators. He’s not elected, and he’s certainly not in a position to speak for the American people. Enforce the damn law.

Echoing comments by President Barack Obama and others in the administration, Morton said that Arizona’s new law targeting illegal immigration is not “good government.” The law makes it a crime to be in the state illegally and requires police to check suspects for immigration paperwork.

Morton said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona officials. The best way to reduce illegal immigration is through a comprehensive federal approach, not a patchwork of state laws, he said.

“I don’t think the Arizona law, or laws like it, are the solution,” Morton said.

Again, who cares what he thinks? I didn’t vote for him, did you? A Republican IRS employee won’t be allowed to refuse to enforce the individual mandate aspect of health care reform because he doesn’t like it. He’ll be fired. But another, liberal, federal employee can refuse to do his job because he personally doesn’t like the way a case came to him.

Quoth Allahpundit:

I looked for a transcript on the Tribune’s site but can’t find any, so we’re deprived of the logic by which (a) an amnesty bill would actually reduce illegal immigration and (b) bona fide illegals caught by Arizona cops are somehow too tainted or whatever to be processed by ICE. But it’s good to know that America’s de facto secretary of immigration enforcement is squeamish about state cops trying to fill the enforcement void created by his own agency.

For years the federal government has refused to do its job. Now states and local jurisdictions are attempting to fill the void. The federal government’s response? How dare you try to do our job! In response, we’ll continue to refuse to do our job!