The Hypocrisy Of Suing Arizona Over Immigration Law

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The Hypocrisy Of Suing Arizona Over Immigration Law
The legal case against the Arizona immigration law is unassailable. The Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union argue that the law impermissibly "conflicts with federal law and enforcement priorities," in the words of the ACLU suit. And who can disagree? Clearly, Arizona's priority is to enforce the nation's immigration laws; the federal government's priority is to ignore them as much as possible. Case closed. President Obama last week warned ominously of a "patchwork" of immigration laws arising as "states and localities go their own ways." Sanctuary cities acting in open defiance of immigration laws have never notably been the object of his wrath. (Who's to judge the good-hearted people of Berkeley?) There's only one part of the dismaying patchwork that stirs Obama's Cabinet to outrage and his attorney general to legal action -- Arizona's commitment to enforcement.