ARIZONA’S IMMIGRATION LAW: what’s the problem?

The problem, we are told, is that the people of Arizona, acting through their state legislators, have had the cheek to ask their state’s police officers to enforce federal laws that the federal government has chosen not to, a choice borne heavily by the state’s taxpayers. And rather than being thanked for their willingness to pick up the slack, Arizonans instead see scorn heaped upon them by their sophisticated betters along both coasts, including the president, the speaker of the House, and even the archbishop of Los Angeles.

You just know the B-rolls are already being shot, the stories are already being written with the details to be filled in later. Someone will be found, some doe-eyed victim will peer out from behind the bars of a jail cell and become the face of the resistance when he is detained on his way either to school, church, or the hospital bedside of his ailing mother who, having been denied a last visit with her cherished son, passes away a broken woman.

I see a 3,000-word tear-jerker starting above the fold on page A-1.

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