Many were quick to vilify Arizonan governor Jan Brewer for her draconian anti-immigration law but I caught on to her ploy early on. As xenophobic as she may or may not be, this legislation was political genius. She crafted and signed a law that is so unconstitutional and so unconscionable that it would not be able to survive even the slightest legal test. It is virtually guaranteed to be overturned at some point on the appeals process. Yet what she accomplished was to turn attention on the debate. Presidents and congresses have promised reform of our badly broken immigration system for years and nothing has come to fruition. Now that Arizona has instituted such an atrociously discriminatory and unethical immigration system, and other states plan to follow suit, the issue has to be addressed formally at a national level lest the legal free-for-all spread throughout the country.
Case-in-point: Calling Immigration System ‘Broken,’ Obama Pushes Bill
On the Arizonan Immigration Law
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