If the illegal immigrants in the US happened to be lawyers rather than construction workers or domestic helpers, they might have struck it bvery rich by now.
Sometime in the next two weeks, the Obama administration is likely to see the injunction it requested this week to put a stay on the anti-immigration law passed in Arizona in April, which it says usurps the powers reserved for the federal government under the US constitution.
The Arizona law would enable citizens to sue police officers if they failed to check the papers of suspected illegal aliens. It is the strongest example so far of states and localities literally taking the law into their own hands. They cite Washington’s failure to fix America’s broken system, which has let in an estimated 11 million undocumented workers, most of whom are from Mexico.