I am pleased to say that I am in the elite group that read the Arizona illegal immigration law. This makes me a better expert than many of our vocal politicians, who still have not taken the time to read the 15 pages of plain English.
If I were a law abiding Arizonan, I’d stand up and cheer for this law regardless of my race. It’s careful not to tread on the natural rights of anybody, but especially not legal residents. Most of it is geared to freeing law enforcement to do their job effectively. It does NOT create new definitions of law breakers. It does NOT add authority for initial stops by authorities. It merely gives them the ability to follow through when they see indication that those they stopped are illegally here. It does add punishment for those that hire known illegals. The fines for all related violations go to help with costs associated with illegal immigration. It’s a good law! We need to push a similar law through in every state. It will be good for any state that passes one like it.
I also think there will be unintended consequences to this whole issue. When the Feds don’t do their job, they leave it to the states and anything the states do independently of the Feds weakens the “United” part of “United States.” California and Arizona are already volleying insults and boycotts. If this continues to escalate, it will redefine the national relationships between states and between states and the Federal Government. Right now, with confidence in the Federal Govt in the toilet, but them wanting to raise taxes endlessly, this could be the match that ignites huge changes.
I hope this can be properly settled with the government withdrawing money for studying pig stink and other such “stimulus” projects and retarget that cash to protection of citizens. We can hope, we can send a note to our own state officials and we MUST pray!