Arizona Tweaks the Immigration Bill

The Arizona legislature is making a few changes to the immigration bill:

One change to the bill strengthens restrictions against using race or ethnicity as the basis for questioning and inserts those same restrictions in other parts of the law.

Changes to the bill language will actually remove the word “solely” from the sentence, “The attorney general or county attorney shall not investigate complaints that are based solely on race, color or national origin.”

Another change replaces the phrase “lawful contact” with “lawful stop, detention or arrest” to apparently clarify that officers don’t need to question a victim or witness about their legal status.

A third change specifies that police contact over violations for local civil ordinances can trigger questioning on immigration status.

The law’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Russell Pearce, characterized the race and ethnicity changes as clarifications “just to take away the silly arguments and the games, the dishonesty that’s been played.”

If these changes make the bill better, great. However, if these changes were made to try and quell the hysteria on the left, forget about it. Hysteria is now in full cry and won't go away until the left manages to destroy Arizona and anyone involved. We even have high school kids in Los Angeles that plan to walk out of school to protest.

Anything for an excuse to leave class.

And I guarantee you that none of these people have actually read the bill or understand how it works. Ignorance is running amok.