Posted on 04/27/2010 6:58:34 PM PDT by Dallas59
ditor's note: Thomas A. Saenz is president and general counsel of MALDEF, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
(CNN) -- With her signature Friday on Senate Bill 1070, Gov. Jan Brewer launched Arizona into a maelstrom of national controversy, community conflict and extreme fiscal risk.
In doing so, she failed a basic test of courageous leadership -- recognizing and acting responsibly when political symbolism and populist pandering crosses into dangerous policy. The governor should have known better, if only because recent history demonstrates the folly in enacting measures like Arizona's SB 1070.
SB 1070 will be subject to multiple legal challenges, and the state will devote precious resources to defend a law that has so many serious constitutional flaws that it will likely never be implemented. The neighboring state of California faced this circumstance 15 years ago when Gov. Pete Wilson championed Proposition 187, enacted by voters in November 1994.
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Legal challenges?
Why isn’t San Fransisco being challenged over their boycott of Arizona?
Even Greta Van Susteren was soooooooo concerned about profiling.
Well .. I wasn’t comparing that!
There has been so much talk about the AZ police harassing the hispanics .. and that’s exactly what the Nazi’s did to the Jews. So .. that’s where people are getting the comparison from .. without realizing that the hispanics are not citizens (at least most of them are NOT).
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