Arizona Seems Onto Something

Because it's fundamentally good for the country when foreigners want to become Americans, people who claim to be pro-immigrant should lay off Arizona. Maybe they should rethink this wish for "comprehensive" immigration reform. Arizona just enacted laws meant to stanch the illegal immigration that the federal government has ignored. About 60% to 70% of the public, depending on the poll, reckons that was reform.

Putatively pro-immigrant activists don't. The Gamaliel Foundation, a left-wing front, bused 100 pastors to Kenosha Thursday to protest at the jail because the feds hold possible deportees there. The pastors don't want illegal immigrants deported. One leader, the Rev. Dennis Jacobsen of Milwaukee, declared this demand part of a "moral vision" for immigration reform and spoke of "the hateful mind-set in Arizona."

Activists setting up a May Day march in Milwaukee, due to happen between when I write this and when you read it, were saying much the same. They were enraged at Arizona's law, the heart of which says state authorities can't ignore the question of whether someone's here illegally. That's racist, they contended.

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