Smart People On Arizona

Mark Steyn and Byron York are both much smarter than me, so I'll let them talk:

Steyn:

That’s Arizona. To the coastal commentariat, “undocumented immigrants” are the people who mow your lawn while you’re at work and clean your office while you’re at home. (That, for the benefit of Linda Greenhouse, is the real apartheid: the acceptance of a permanent “undocumented” servant class by far too many “documented” Americans who assuage their guilt by pathetic sentimentalization of immigration.) But in border states, illegal immigration is life and death. I spoke this week to a lady who has a camp of illegals on the edge of her land: She lies awake at night, fearful for her children and alert to strange noises in the yard. President Obama, shooting from his lip, attacked the new law as an offense against “fairness.” Where’s the fairness for this woman’s family? Because her home is in Arizona rather than Hyde Park, Chicago, she’s just supposed to get used to living under siege? Like Gillian Duffy in northern England, this lady has to live there, while the political class that created this situation climbs back into the limo and gets driven far away.

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The majority of Arizona’s schoolchildren are already Hispanic. So, even if you sealed the border today, the state’s future is as a Hispanic society; that’s a given. Maybe it’ll all work out swell. The citizenry never voted for it, but they got it anyway. Because all the smart guys in the limos bemoaning the bigots knew what was best for them.

York:

But what if the driver of the car had shown the officer his driver's license? The law clearly says that if someone produces a valid Arizona driver's license, or other state-issued identification, they are presumed to be here legally. There's no reasonable suspicion.

Is having to produce a driver's license too burdensome? These days, natural-born U.S. citizens, and everybody else, too, are required to show a driver's license to get on an airplane, to check into a hotel, even to purchase some over-the-counter allergy medicines. If it's a burden, it's a burden on everyone.

Still, critics worry the law would force some people to carry their papers, just like in an old movie. The fact is, since the 1940s, federal law has required non-citizens in this country to carry, on their person, the documentation proving they are here legally -- green card, work visa, etc. That hasn't changed.

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[200 Grande]

The majority of legal residents of the US southwest are historically what American whites refer to as "Hispanic."

Here's the media spin:

Americans are propagandized by the showing of white South-westerners under siege by a horde of Mexicans.

(a) Democrats get to call Republicans racist.

(b) Republicans get to say Democrats are against law and order.

Both Statements are true, and mutually applicable to both parties.

Meanwhile, grassroot Republicans and grassroot Democrats fight over who is racist, as well as who stands for law and order, while corporatists use the fray to distract all Americans from the decimation of American wages (particularly those for poor Americans). Any Republican criticizing this is subsequently accused of being anti-free market. Any Democrat criticizing this is branded a Republican and of course, a racist.

Over time, the problem escalates and reactions crisis proportions. Then, a solution appears: a national work permit for everyone in the U.S.

Finally, the federal government gets to regulate all workers in the U.S. and the dream of a national ID card is realized.

Problem
Reaction
Solution

Wash, rinse, and repeat.

Welcome to 21st Century, hi-tech slavery, everyone.

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