Come pile on me…

The Arizona law makes the kind of Fox-soundbyte sense that is hard to refute without going off into the sort of nuances that TV news has no time or interest in dealing with with.

It is illegal to cross the border into the US without permission. But the adopted status quo for ages has been that the law is not enforced, the border is porous and there is no system in place to admit, register, identify and track immigrants who have come to live and work in America.

Immigration is a national problem, but the southern border states bear the brunt of the problems. If the Federal government cannot come up with a way to help them, they are going to take these kinds of steps to force it to react.

There are some just criticisms of this law and its potential for abuse, but just repealing it will not solve the underlying issues.