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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 726446" data-attributes="member: 12952">Immigration law is hated because it might workBy: Heather MacDonaldExaminer EditorialThe Arizona law, were it to be widely emulated, threatens to disrupt&nbsp; the calculus of illegal immigration. There are 650,000 state and local&nbsp; police officers in the United States. If a significant portion of those&nbsp; officers received the mandate of the Arizona law — to inquire where&nbsp; practicable into the immigration status of an individual they have&nbsp; legitimately stopped, if they have a valid reason to believe he is in&nbsp; the country illegally — the balance between law enforcement and&nbsp; lawbreaking would be changed enough to likely deter illegal border&nbsp; crossings and to persuade many illegal immigrants already in the U.S. to&nbsp; return to their home countries rather than face arrest and deportation.The opponents of Arizona’s law, SB 1070, detest it not because it&nbsp; will lead to racial profiling (it will not), nor because it is&nbsp; unconstitutional (it is not), but because it just might work. Texas is&nbsp; reportedly already considering a similar law. The illegal immigrant&nbsp; lobby knows that it has to stop SB 1070 if it wants to maintain its&nbsp; monopoly over border matters, a monopoly that has led to the chaos that&nbsp; is now engulfing Arizona.The people screaming the loudest against Arizona’s law do not believe&nbsp; in immigration enforcement, period. No matter where an illegal&nbsp; immigrant is arrested — whether on the street, at home, or at a work&nbsp; site — the illegal immigrant lobby will declare that place to be an&nbsp; illegitimate locus for arrest.So opposed are illegal immigrant advocates to immigration enforcement&nbsp; that they want to dismantle programs targeting the most dangerous&nbsp; illegal immigrants for deportation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 726446, member: 12952"] [B]Immigration law is hated because it might work By: Heather MacDonald Examiner Editorial[/B] The Arizona law, were it to be widely emulated, threatens to disrupt the calculus of illegal immigration. There are 650,000 state and local police officers in the United States. If a significant portion of those officers received the mandate of the Arizona law — to inquire where practicable into the immigration status of an individual they have legitimately stopped, if they have a valid reason to believe he is in the country illegally — the balance between law enforcement and lawbreaking would be changed enough to likely deter illegal border crossings and to persuade many illegal immigrants already in the U.S. to return to their home countries rather than face arrest and deportation. The opponents of Arizona’s law, SB 1070, detest it not because it will lead to racial profiling (it will not), nor because it is unconstitutional (it is not), but because it just might work. Texas is reportedly already considering a similar law. The illegal immigrant lobby knows that it has to stop SB 1070 if it wants to maintain its monopoly over border matters, a monopoly that has led to the chaos that is now engulfing Arizona. The people screaming the loudest against Arizona’s law do not believe in immigration enforcement, period. No matter where an illegal immigrant is arrested — whether on the street, at home, or at a work site — the illegal immigrant lobby will declare that place to be an illegitimate locus for arrest. So opposed are illegal immigrant advocates to immigration enforcement that they want to dismantle programs targeting the most dangerous illegal immigrants for deportation. [/QUOTE]

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