As noted previously here, the parts of Arizona anti-illegal alien law, SB 1070, have already had a pronounced and desirable effect: mass self-deportation, a reduction in crime and in inmate populations, and other taxpayer savings. As Politico notes, SCOTUS appears likely to side with the state; handing Team Barry yet another stinging rebuke, while NPR predictably forecasts dark and dire consequences. They imagine a totalitarian state in which brown-skinned people are obliged to show papers whenever they venture outside their barricaded doors - making the case, yet again, for de-funding the organization.
Great lines from SCOTUS:
When Verrilli argued that international concerns factor into the federal government’s supremacy over immigration policy, Scalia angrily interrupted, “So we have to enforce our laws in a manner that will please Mexico. Is that what you’re saying?”
Enter Justice Sonia Sotomayor:
"Putting aside your argument that this -- that a systematic cooperation is wrong -- you can see it's not selling very well -- why don't you try to come up with something else?" she said to Verrilli.
"Because I, frankly -- as the chief has said to you, it's not that it's forcing you to change your enforcement priorities. You don't have to take the person into custody. So what's left of your argument?"
For even more fun, read the comments from the loony Left following the TMPDC article. That's unsurprising, as Talking Points Memo pushes toward the Left and does what they can to portray Justice Scalia as out-of-touch and over the top, but even in the face of his comments and those of Justices Roberts and Sotomayor, and despite the demonstrable success of even partial implementation of SB 1070, the commenters on the Left just can't help themselves. Just as the folks in the Monty Python skits perfected the Silly Walk, American Leftists are working hard to perfect the Silly Argument.
