According to the reports, Conservative Sarah Palin ripped an Illinois high school for canceling a trip by the girls basketball team to Arizona in protest of the state's immigration law.

The Chicago Tribune reported on Thursday that the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate wondered aloud during a speech Wednesday in Chicago why the school wouldn't send the team to Arizona but allowed a student trip to China.

Palin said, "Keeping the girl's basketball team off the court for political reasons? Those are fighting words, asking whether Highland Park High School officials knew "how they treat women in China."

Among other things, the Arizona law makes it a crime to be in the state illegally and requires law enforcement officers to check the legal status of people they suspect are undocumented.

The Arizona law wasn't "aligned with our beliefs and values," Highland Park school officials said.

Palin said, "An economic and political boycott of one of our sister states is not a way to secure our borders."

Invoking the title of her best-selling memoir, Palin encouraged the team members to "go rogue, girls."

It was further reported that among other things, Palin criticized President Barack Obama's domestic policy, saying it was expanding government and "leading us to European-style socialism with a European-style debt crisis right around the corner."

She counted herself as part of the Tea Party movement, decrying ""lame-stream journalists" for "falsely portraying" its members as "violent and racists and seditious" when they were "everyday Americans who have had enough of what's going on in our government," Palin, 46, now a Fox News commentator, said.

During a question-and-answer session following her speech, Palin didn't apologize for supporting expanded oil exploration in light of the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. She said, however, oil companies must be held accountable. (With Inputs from Agencies)