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The United States just eliminated the only paperwork proof for white Europeans who find themselves encountered by a cop in Arizona enforcing the new immigration laws.

Ah, desmadre, where would I be without you? This comes from an immigration lawyer here in Tucson, Rachel Wilson.  (Gracias, comadre.)

It creates a spectacular mess for Arizona in its enforcement of SB 2162. The Homeland Security Department eliminated the paper arrival/departure record requirement for foreign nationals entering the country under the visa waiver program.

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An off-the-record (and off the cuff) comment by a New Yorker I was interviewing this morning regarding SB 1070:

“Like I’m supposed to condone a law that permits a level of law enforcement discretion that borders on fascism that has, through Morales and Papachristou, a demonstrated tendency to result in discrimination against the unpopular and undesirable, because some of you assholes down south can’t grasp that living where a wealthy nation borders a poor nation might have some negative side effects. Living in Arizona and bitching about illegals is like living next to a pig farm and complaining about the smell.”

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The Associated Press finds that the top immigration law administrators in the United States have never bothered to read Arizona’s SB 1070 that was signed into law a month ago. Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano was asked today by Sen. John McCain if she’s read the law. She says: “I’ve not reviewed it in detail. I certainly know of it, Senator.”

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was asked last week “have you read the Arizona law?”

“I have not had a chance to — I’ve glanced at it. I have not read it,” he said. Within 72 hours of 1070′s passage, A.G. Holder had threatened to sue Arizona.

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The outrage has simmered throughout the country for a few days now, with activists calling for a boycott of Arizona after the passage of the first state bill in the nation that criminalizes illegal immigrants. The loudest voices seem to think the status quo of sustaining what’s essentially a slave labor class is a solution. Well, no; it’s not.

Most of the economic threats I’m reading about this morning  are weak bluster with no teeth, particularly the loudest voices, the San Francisco, Calif., Board of Supervisors and the League of United Latin American Citizens.

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Oh, come on. Like she wasn’t gonna sign it. Of course she was going to sign it. Her re-election depended on it. I’ll go you one further: And the woman knows the bill’s going to get tossed in the trash for its illegal measures. The Phoenix Republicans love her; the Democrats will call the bill’s subsequent destruction a victory. She’ll get re-elected and the border will continue churning over billions of illicit dollars, unhindered until the next crisis.

For now, Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law this afternoon, creating one of the most draconian environments against non-white residents I’ve ever seen.

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