A lot has happened since Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a controversial bill ostensibly intended to curb illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
The reaction to a measure that many with white skin applaud and those who are \u201cpersons of color\u201d deplore has been fast and furious. Republicans, for the most part, although there have been defectors, have defended the new law, decrying what they see as federal interference in Arizona affairs, denying even the inference of \u201cracial profiling\u201d occurring as the law is enforced this summer, and characterizing the enacted Senate Bill 1070 as a \u201cnecessary tool in the hands of law enforcement\u201d for stemming the dangerous and toxic tide of illegal immigrants into their state. Most everybody else \u2013 including Democrats in Arizona and people of brown skin who may be targeted by police under the tenet of \u201creasonable suspicion\u201d but extending to professional baseball players from the Arizona Diamondbacks and to (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A lot has happened since Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a controversial bill ostensibly intended to curb illegal immigration. The reaction to a measure that many with white skin applaud and those who are \u201cpersons of color\u201d deplore…<\/span><\/p>\n