{"id":310,"date":"2010-04-28T21:23:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2010-04-28T21:23:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T02:23:53","slug":"crazing-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/crazing-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazing Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona and Oklahoma have been battling it out lately over which state can be the kookiest, but come on, the anti-immigrant law that Arizona has bletcherously vomited onto the national pscyhe definitely wins. It&#8217;s got it all: racial profiling, forcing people to do things they have no expertise doing, and opening cities to huge lawsuits from crazed constituents who think that they aren&#8217;t doing enough to keep the dark-hued people out. Of course, given the monumental stupidity of the law, it&#8217;s being embraced by conservatives around the country and in <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomscheck\/status\/13015453571\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomscheck\/status\/13015556965\" target=\"_blank\">as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The particular stupidity that gets to me is having the cops determine the immigrant status of anybody suspicious. For a second, ignore the profiling, and ignore the chilling effect that this will have when it comes to police interactions with the community at large. Because aside from that, you&#8217;ve got the main problem that determining immigration status is hard. That&#8217;s why there are immigration lawyers. Having gone through the immigration process myself (and needing to hire a lawyer to do so!), I know firsthand that determining a person&#8217;s immigration status is not easy or logical. If it takes lawyers hours of work to figure things out, what can a cop with no training on the finer points of immigration law do? Sure, you can blame ICE, the federal government, and Congress for this mess, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that Arizona, or any other state, can fix it themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, Congress will actually pass an immigration reform bill this year. It&#8217;s actually not that complicated, or even controversial for such a huge issue. Most of the reform packages floating around actually agree on the major points, such as the fact that we won&#8217;t be kicking millions of people out of the country anytime soon. A realistic reform includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A path to citizenship for those already here<\/li>\n<li>Requiring the paying of back taxes<\/li>\n<li>Requiring evidence of knowledge of English<\/li>\n<li>Tightening up the border<\/li>\n<li>Simpler verification of work status<\/li>\n<li>Much stiffer penalties on businesses that hire undocumented workers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latter one is the most important, and predictably the one most opposed by businesses that want cheap, non-union labor. Personally, I think some aspects, like requiring English, are unnecessary, but if that is what it takes to get it through Congress, then I guess that is what it takes. Notice, however, that this list has no overlap with the law passed in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Arizona richly deserves every canceled convention and boycott it gets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona and Oklahoma have been battling it out lately over which state can be the kookiest, but come on, the anti-immigrant law that Arizona has bletcherously vomited onto the national pscyhe definitely wins. It&#8217;s got it all: racial profiling, forcing people to do things they have no expertise doing, and opening cities to huge lawsuits&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/crazing-arizona\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crazing Arizona<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-immigration","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}