No doubt, Arizona has a problem. The state (population 6,595,778) has an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants. It also has a porous border with Mexico, and there is an understandable nervousness over the drug-fueled mayhem that is taking place in that country almost daily, some of it spilling into Arizona (a rancher was recently murdered). The people of this state are not totally crazy. They are merely misguided and scared. An amazing 70 percent of them support the new law…
Indeed there is. But the Obama administration had better pay attention to the conditions that produced this law. In a way, another Tea Party movement has emerged — a scream of pain and anger from a constituency that has seen immigration laws turn meaningless and the impotence of the government flaunted on a daily basis. These are people who didn’t have a particularly high regard for Washington in the first place. This is the Anglos’ last stand.
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