I love Arizona. I have lived here and loved it here all my life! I love Arizona so much that it’s obscene. I even throw parties to commemorate its “birthday” called Statehood Day parties! 

But, as is life, sometimes what you love do things that confuse you.

So a few months ago Arizona went crazy after she turned 98 years old and went crazy with legislation.

Of the legislative acts, the one that received a good bulk of press was the controversial SB 1070. Here’s a bit of the law that drew fire.

…allows law officials to check a person’s immigration status under certain circumstances and authorizes officers to make a warrantless arrest of a person where there is probable cause to believe that the person committed a public offense that makes the person removable from the United States.

“Now how does one obtain this probable cause” is the question most should be asking themselves. I guess it’s by looking at the person and NOT racially profiling or something. Just look at someone and magically tell if they belong here in the U.S.!

The actual law which reads out like a shopping to-do list rather than a well constructed law left me puzzled as to why our law makers would put their stamp on such a silly document. To add further confusion, I don’t understand how the supporters are so gung ho for the law when if they read it, assuming they CAN read, they would see the basic problems with it.

But I figured it out! It’s really quite elegant in its simplicity.

So we needed help with border control and we weren’t getting as fast as we’d liked. Arizona writes and passes this CRAZY law with all kinds of wacky shit (but also sprinkled with some promise) that they say will “Do the job the feds can’t” that they KNOW are gonna piss people off and cause a stir.

So then the Federal Government steps in and tries to fix this wacky law and tosses out the silly stuff and keeps the good stuff. BRILLIANT!

…the Court cannot and will not enjoin S.B. 1070 in its entirety, as certain parties to lawsuits challenging the enactment have requested. The Court is obligated to consider S.B. 1070 on a section by section and provision by provision basis.

I was very disappointed when Arizona started all this mumbo jumbo, but I never really get involved in political discussion because you rarely change peoples minds in talks of that nature and the people arguing don’t really care about hearing the other person’s point.

NOW that I see the sill plan Arizona was up to the whole time! I can’t help but be impressed by Arizona’s cunning ways. Call me naive but I refuse to believe that our law makers don’t know what they are doing.

Today major sections of the law were blocked in court (leaving the law useless), but proving that the squeaky wheel does indeed get the grease!