Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The Fuss over Arizona's Immigration Law


The Fuss over Arizona's Immigration Law
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

By Brit Hume


The president says the Arizona law is "misguided."

His attorney general says it's "unfortunate."


In San Francisco they are talking about boycotting the state.


Al Sharpton is on the way to lead marches and Linda Greenhouse, the esteemed legal affairs commentator of The New York Times, says she will boycott Arizona because, she says, it's now a police state where, "breathing while undocumented" is a crime.

All this is in reaction mainly to two passages of the new Arizona immigration law

One provides when police are engaged in "lawful contact" with someone where there is "reasonable suspicion" the person is an illegal alien, that the police shall make a "reasonable attempt... when practicable" to determine the person's immigration status.

The other provision makes it a crime to be in Arizona illegally. This is the part that Greenhouse says makes breathing while undocumented a crime.


But it's already a federal crime to enter the U.S. illegally. The new law just makes it a state crime, to.


As for the charge police will now make random demands of Hispanics to produce their papers, the bill's authors say that the requirement that there first be "lawful contact" means situations where someone has already been stopped for other law enforcement reasons.


In fact, once you actually read this law, it becomes clear the fuss over it has little to do with breathing in Arizona and a lot to do with hyperventilating in Washington.


Brit Hume is the senior political analyst for Fox News Channel.

1 comment:

  1. Samuel A Kahanamoku IIIMay 15, 2010 at 5:51 PM

    Arizona has the right to Declare War on Mexico.. because they border each other and Arizona is being Armed Invaded by Mexican Citizens…“Wake up Federal Bureau Corp.”
    A State has the right to defend it's self....internal or external...."I just fixed my M-82 gun sights"

    By Bunny Kahanamoku
    The Tenth Amendment "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right,
    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

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