Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Arizona's authoritarian anti- illegal immigration statute stays on the books

at least until some nice white family is rousted by the rollers and shipped off to the hoosegow for "lack of documentation" (which is now a crime in Arizona)...Then watch the lawsuits blossom and burst!
Huey Long passed a bunch of laws of this type in Louisiana, they were systematically over-ruled by the courts or quietly set aside by the State Legislature when the Kingfisher was measured for his harp and wings.
Honestly I walked around Andropov's Soviet Union for two whole weeks and was never one asked to render up my papers to the local Federales, and I was a class enemy of the USSR!
This is in essence a bad law, too blunt a weapon, too vague an application, it punishes groups for the crimes of individuals, that is always a dangerous thing.
Arizona's Governor Jan Brewer ought to be ashamed for signing off on it....That is if there is incumbent Republican left in the USA that is capable of shame.
Sooner or later it will be ineptly applied and the mishaugas will end up in a Federal Courtroom somewheres, count on it.

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