UPI: Arizona Democrats, with tough re-election battles looming, have urged the Obama administration not to sue the state over its controversial immigration law.
One Arizona lawmaker, U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell, sent a letter to Obama asking him to abandon the lawsuit, saying, "I believe your administration's time, efforts and resources would be much better spent securing the border and fixing our broken immigration system," The Hill reported Wednesday.
"Arizonians are tired of the grandstanding, and tired of waiting for help from Washington," Mitchell said in his letter. "(A) lawsuit won't solve the problem. It won't secure the border, and it won't fix our broken immigration system."
Two other vulnerable Arizona Democrats -- U.S. Reps Gabrielle Giffords and Ann Kirkpatrick -- joined Mitchell in publicly opposing the administration's potential legal strategy.