This article ran this morning, perhaps it helped hurry the announcement today saying the government is going to start working on reform this year. - - Donna Poisl
Laws such as Arizona's new statute show the need for comprehensive reform at the federal level.
By Tim Rutten
The people behind Arizona's new anti-immigrant statute have at least one thing right: This mean-spirited law was enacted because the federal government has abdicated its responsibility to address the immigration system's moral and functional failures.
On Sunday, the state's largest newspaper, the Arizona Republic, took the unprecedented step of giving its entire front page over to an editorial making exactly that point. "The federal government is abdicating its duty on the border. Arizona politicians are pandering to public fear," the Republic wrote. "The result is a state law that intimidates Latinos while doing nothing to curb illegal immigration."
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