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    Editorial: AZ immigration law might be legal, but not smart

    Editorial: AZ immigration law might be legal, but not smart
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    Arizona's harsh and controversial immigration law, argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, goes too far in important ways. But there's no denying the facts that led to its passage: Washington ignored a rising tide of illegal immigration, leaving states and cities to deal with overcrowded schools and emergency rooms and other costly consequences. Over decades the tide became a flood, and states reacted, beginning with Arizona..


    Outside the Supreme Court: Protesters against Arizona's immigration law Wednesday.
    By Jack Gruber, USA TODAY



    The constitutional issue before the court is fairly narrow: whether states are pre-empted from writing their own immigration laws. The Obama administration tried to make the case that Arizona's law is an invasion of federal power, but the justices didn't seem to be buying it. At one point, even liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that the government's argument was "not selling very well."

    Indeed, it's hard to make the case that states and cities should have no right to protect themselves from the consequences of federal inaction. States can't negate federal laws, but there are productive ways for them to cooperate with federal authorities, particularly in the workplace, because jobs are the main magnet that draws illegal immigrants here. The drafters of Arizona's law — four key parts of which have been suspended by lower courts — contend they took great care to track federal law and seek only to help enforce it. And if that's the way it all works out, well and good. But the law is so prone to abuse that less rosy scenarios seem more likely.

    The most controversial provision requires police to determine the immigration status of people they stop — for a traffic violation, for example — when they have a "reasonable suspicion" the person is here illegally. Though the law prohibits racial profiling, the statute also seems to invite it. Would an officer check the status of a white teenager as readily as a dark-skinned Hispanic? That issue was excluded from the court case.
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    Some justices appeared skeptical about another provision that would make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to seek work — because that went beyond the intent of Congress.

    The five states that followed Arizona have added other vulnerabilities.

    For example, Alabama seeks to clear its classrooms of the children of illegal immigrants by requiring their students to report their parents' immigration status — which punishes kids who have no say in where they live and who could well be U.S. citizens by birth. Because of the impact on families and businesses, Alabama's legislature is already rewriting the state's law.

    The stated goal of such laws is "attrition through enforcement." And that's the real problem. They can succeed only by creating a climate of fear that affects all Hispanics, or perhaps all immigrants, not just those who are here illegally.

    In a cold-blooded interpretation, this can be dismissed as just the latest step in the messy process of democracy. It certainly is nothing new. Each past great wave of immigration was greeted with similar ham-handedness. Each time, the flood was staunched, but through an indulgence of bigotry that should be unacceptable.

    The alternative is no secret. Washington should do its job: seal the border, sanction employers who hire illegal immigrants, and allow temporary visas for jobs such as migrant farm work. Then provide a path to legality — one that has to be earned — for the illegal immigrants already here who work and stay out of trouble.

    A succession of presidents has proposed such plans only to see them die along with countless other things in an angry, dysfunctional Congress.

    So for now, this obnoxious fight will rage on in courts and in communities, with a heavy toll to be paid by immigrants and citizens alike.

    Arizona immigration law might be legal, but it's not smart

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    The liberals in the biased newspapers are moving to their fallback positions already now they believe the Supreme Court is about to hand them a major defeat.

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    Darn! You were doing so well until you typed:
    The alternative is no secret. Washington should do its job: seal the border, sanction employers who hire illegal immigrants, and allow temporary visas for jobs such as migrant farm work. Then provide a path to legality — one that has to be earned — for the illegal immigrants already here who work and stay out of trouble.







    Illegal means illegal. There is no excuse for them being here. They must go. Willingly or unwillingly.

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    Darn! You were doing so well until you typed:
    The alternative is no secret. Washington should do its job: seal the border, sanction employers who hire illegal immigrants, and allow temporary visas for jobs such as migrant farm work. Then provide a path to legality — one that has to be earned — for the illegal immigrants already here who work and stay out of trouble.

    Oh here we go again!!!!!!! What part of ILLEGAL is not understood..ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL that means it is against the law no part of ILLEGAL makes it LEGAL!!!!! Comprande' The only thing we need to provide is a path to leave this Country they entered illegally and they can sneak out the same way..

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    Is it legal or smart for the federal government to condone sanctuary cities in violation of U.S. law? Where's the Holder lawsuit against Chicago?
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    Hundreds protest Arizona's tough immigration law

    Apr 26, 2012 Demonstrators march through streets while the Supreme Court begins hearing arguments on controversial law.

    Hundreds protest Arizona's tough immigration law | Video | Fox News
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