There is just too much to really unpack here with the immigration reform law in Arizona.  I mean today, the Department of Justice presented a case against Arizona’s Law.  This is big —- the Executive Branch challenging the law on the grounds that immigration reform is reserved for the federal government and is not for states to decide on piecemeal.

Respectable position.  But I would probably challenge it because it will unfairly target anyone that looks remotely Mexican.  Caught speaking Spanish on a Friday in Arizona and you might have just introduced yourself to probable cause for questioning your citizenship. Sure, I don’t expect officers in AZ to go forth with reckless abandon being overtly racist – but let’s be real – how will you determine when you “suspect” someone of being an illegal immigrant? “Woo, suspect just referenced enchiladas while intoxicated…I suspect he has just alluded to the fact he is here illegally from Mexico…time to check that passport and birth certificate that everyone carries with them at all times”

But I digress. Maybe that’s just me.

And now, in addition to the lawsuit against Arizona, the annual governors’ conference between border states in US and in Mexico is seeing some turbulence too:

Complements of NY Times:

“…after all six Mexican border governors wrote to her [Gov. Jan Brewer of AZ] to say they intended to boycott the gathering to protest the new law, Ms. Brewer sent a letter of her own last week to the governors on both sides of the border saying she was canceling the whole conference.”

Deteriorating situation much?  When I read the article I was thinking that Gov. Brewer seriously couldn’t expect Mexican governors to show up in Phoenix like there was room and atmosphere for open dialogue on immigration.  That is like slapping someone in the face and then hugging them as though nothing happened – “we cool right?  We cool?”

Immigration reform needs to happen, but the way in which AZ has proposed it is a knee-jerk reaction to everything negative going on in the state and the assumption that illegal immigration is the root cause.

It shocks me that so many people polled support this AZ law, according to polls, because AZ is taking a stand when the federal government will not.  But to minority groups and the international community this might come off as nativism at its worst, and sadly we are not even able to recognize it.

It's always some group threatening the fabric of American prosperity and society right?

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