Even the Stripped Down Version of the Arizona Immigration Law is Working

The author of the law is happy with the results:

As the author of the new law, SB 1070, I can honestly say that July 29, when the pared-down law went into effect, was a victory.

Many key provisions are still in effect. Local police have more power to enforce immigration laws. Sanctuary cities are outlawed. Illegal day laborers are likely to be arrested and the employers' trucks that pick them up impounded.

And I am confident the entire law will will be upheld.

Already, illegal immigrants are taking notice. Even before the law went into effect, NPR and Reuters reported that undocumented immigrants, including entire families, were moving out of the state. The day after the ruling, CNN reported, “some of the estimated 500,000 undocumented immigrants who went to Arizona are leaving the state.”

This is the strategy of SB 1070: attrition through enforcement. Arizona has made it clear through our policies that illegal immigrants are not welcome, and they are self-deporting from the state.

Don Surber makes a good point:

But I think it worked in a much broader way: It exposed the anti-American side of some of the people on the American left. The president of the United States sided with illegal aliens — and the drug smugglers and assorted gangsters that accompany them — against the American people. That is a chilling situation.

Indeed. It's also a reminder to people that elections matter and having liberals choosing federal judges is dangerous to our freedom.