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Now the Arizona government will sit in its scalding immigrant witchhunt bath.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Now the Arizona government will sit in its scalding immigrant witchhunt bath, as organizations and local governments with financial muscle cancel meetings in Arizona and go to vendors in other states for goods and services. At best. Arizona governor Jan Brewer has not read her state's new immigrant witchhunt law, and at worst, she is misstating (if not downright prevaricating) what the law says, starting with its harassment provision, when she claims ?- in trying to avert the crippling boycotts faced in her state due to this law -- that: "The bottom line is there are a lot of mistruths about the bill... You're not going to walk down the street and get questioned unless you've committed a crime." She has it wrong, because the law says in its third paragraph that any lawful contact with people (not just arrests, but even so-called investigations and Terry stops, which require nothing more than reasonable articulable suspicion of criminal activity afoot) requires cops to inquire into immigration status when the cop has ?reasonable articulable suspicion that the person is an alien who is unlawfully in the United States? (i...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 14, 2010 (boomark / email).