Here we go again....

So Arizona (my home state) is gonna 'get tough with them damn illegals' by cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants. Now some Arizona businessmen in the area are a trifle bit concerned about it. They should be.

Never mind that neither the State or Federal government gives small business (or even bigger business) a solid way of checking for fake documentation. Never mind that we don't have an immigrant worker program even close to meeting our market realities. Never mind that we have extremely low unemployment right now. We're going to stop them illegals because....some of them are in gangs, I guess. (And don't give me that "because they are breaking the law" crap. I won't hear another bar from that phucking song anymore. If they were all Scandinavian swim suit models with penchants for cocaine and public nudity--with no interest in learning English or assimilating into "the culture"--there would be noooooooooo problem. Some crimes are well tolerated--just depends on the crime and the criminal).

I'm actually glad this law is going into effect--though I have my doubts it will be carried out. The way Prohibition was finally rid of in Oklahoma was by enforcing the law in full. I actually wish this would do the same in finally forcing some reasonable action on the part of our federal government. But I have my doubts. States and towns making immigration law should be humiliating enough (and I'm not sure it's fully Constitutional, actually). Immigration is clearly the responsibility of the federal government, but they have done nothing but slather the Border Patrol with money and talk about building a wall. Nice try, dipshits, but it's not enough.

Either this law will work as designed and the economy of Arizona will be severely hurt, or it will be on the books but not really enforced. Guess where I'm putting my money.