Say 'Hell No' to Arizona

[Swede]

And yet, paradoxically, some broader good may come of this Draconian, un-American, and very probably unconstitutional law. As Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations put it to me: Could it be that this unworkable law will make us understand, finally, the limitations of enforcement as the sole means by which we address illegal immigration?

Enforcement, by itself, is both insufficient and irrational. Immigration policy has to come to terms with the fact that there need to be more avenues for legal immigration, particularly for the low-skilled labor that crosses our southern border to meet a very real demand. Our lawmakers must come to terms, also, with the need for some kind of legalization program for many of those who are here illegally.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-25/brother-in-arizona/?cid=hp:mainpromo2

[Deep13]

1. Well, I don't normally carry a birth certificate or a passport...

...so I'm not going anywhere where I'll be required to produce them.

[Bobbieo]

2. Get out the Hispanic vote!

[drmeow]

3. The good that I hope comes with this

is voting some of these reactionary, bigoted, anti-education, pro-development, anti-government hypocrites out of the Arizona legislature.

[rbixby]

4. What I don't get is

that this isn't going to do anything to address why people come here illegally in the first place (because employers will hire them illegally). Why don't they punish those providing the means and the motivation for the immigration instead of those who are just opening the door when opportunity knocks? Punish the employers heavily so it doesn't make sense to hire illegals and the problem will go away. Anything else is just putting a bandaid on the bullet wound.