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EDITORIAL

STOP FAILING
ARIZONA;
START FIXING
IMMIGRATION
W
e need leaders. this issue. He hasn’t changed. Fear and anger are
his sidekicks. Self-promotion is his noble steed.
The federal government is abdicating its duty on the border. His diatribes helped validate a wickedly distorted
Arizona politicians are pandering to public fear. image of all migrant workers as heinous criminals.
The result is a state law that intimidates Latinos while doing PHIL GORDON lashed out against the law in
nothing to curb illegal immigration. shrill tones that did not serve his state or city. The
Phoenix mayor made a flamboyant call to
This represents years of failure. Years of politicians taking the easy way and allow- challenge the new law in court without first
ing the debate to descend into chaos. consulting the City Council, then vowed to go
The Arizona Republic has been calling for comprehensive immigration reform con- around his fellow elected city officials when they
disagreed with him.
tinuously since 2002. For a brief time, our congressional delegation led the nation on
this front. But no more. RUSSELL PEARCE probably has done more
than anyone in the state to turn this from a com-
Now, it seems our elected officials prefer to serve political expediency instead. plex public-policy discussion into what seems like
Those who failed Arizona: law sketched on a cocktail napkin. This legisla-
tion, his brainchild, shows how a narrow focus on
persecuting illegal immigrants blinds him to the
JAN BREWER was looking out for her political memory and principle. Facing a primary race consequences of what he is doing. We wonder if
future, not Arizona’s best interests, when she against J.D. Hayworth, whose demagoguery on state Sen. Pearce even considered rights of legal
signed the anti-immigrant law that ignores Arizo- this issue is practiced and predictable, Sen. residents and Latino citizens. Or if he cares how
na’s Latino heritage and creates a backlash that McCain became a man afraid of his own record. his law introduces real fear into real people’s lives.
will hurt the state’s economic development. The He locked himself behind a door marked “Do not
governor’s GOP primary race would have been disturb until the border is secure.” Here’s some RAÚL GRIJALVA also fails to see beyond a
tougher if she’d vetoed the bill, so she ducked her straight talk the senator should understand: The narrow band of self-interest. As a representative
responsibility to the people of Arizona. Now, she border cannot be secured as long as the current of a heavily Latino district, he faced no political
gets a bump in the polls, and Arizona gets beat up irrational border policies remain unchanged. risk in responding to a divisive law with an equally
on the international stage. divisive call for a national boycott of Arizona.
JON KYL was also brave enough — once upon a Grijalva, a U.S. representative, must know that lost
JANET NAPOLITANO came down with time — to work across the aisle for the sake of convention business will hurt Arizonans who are
amnesia after she abandoned her job as governor achieving comprehensive immigration reform. struggling to keep their jobs in these tough times.
of Arizona and moved to Washington, D.C., to be Now, he has linked arms with McCain in stone- For a congressman to call for destruction of his
Homeland Security secretary. Ensconced in a walling. There may be little political advantage in own state’s economy is irresponsible and beneath
Democratic administration, she forgot all the helping a Democratic president and Congress contempt.
arguments she once used to demand that the Bush achieve what Republicans could not, but Sen.
administration address immigration reform and Kyl’s role in GOP Senate leadership should not be JOE ARPAIO and ANDREW THOMAS, a
reimburse Arizona for the costs of the broken more important than fixing what’s broken in his showboat tag team as sheriff and county attorney,
border. Put in charge of Obama’s effort to craft own state. were responsible for ratcheting up the heat and
immigration reform, she couldn’t get the thing out dimming any light on this issue. Arpaio’s immigra-
of neutral. J.D. HAYWORTH is the mouth that spewed tion sweeps stirred anti-immigrant sentiment and
when it comes to illegal immigration. The former made “driving while Latino” a suspicious activity.
JOHN McCAIN, the one-time maverick and congressman used his seat in the House and his Thomas’ decision to use a law aimed at criminal
former champion of comprehensive immigration radio show to pound his chest and shout down ev- smugglers to prosecute illegal immigrants was a
reform, also came down with a convenient loss of ery attempt to discuss the genuine complexity of perversion of that law-enforcement tool.

T
hese politicians — Republicans and of the state’s most pressing issues. We need lead- to be citizens and live in this country.
Democrats — used this issue to bait ers who will push to enact comprehensive reform. Reform must create a legal pipeline for future
voters. Voters should get wise and We need Arizona leadership — as a delegation all workers that is demand-based and temporary.
demand leadership and solutions. working together —sponsoring and spearheading With a legal framework in place, there will be no
Despite the turmoil and passion federal legislation to fix immigration. reason to be in this country without permission.
surrounding this issue, there is a broad consensus Reform must secure the border so that the peo- Foreigners who break our laws will be prose-
that immigration is a federal responsibility and it ple entering this country are doing so legally and cuted, punished and deported.
demands federal action. State laws cannot fix it. we know who they are. It must eliminate the ac- Comprehensive reform will make the border
There is also agreement that Arizona suffers cess to jobs that migrants are willing to risk their safer. When migrant labor is channeled through
disproportionately because of federal border lives to reach. It must include an efficient system the legal ports of entry, the Border Patrol can fo-
policies, as was seen Friday when a Pinal County to verify worker eligibility and tough sanctions for cus on catching drug smugglers and other crimi-
sheriff’s deputy was ambushed and shot by employers who hire the undocumented. nals instead of chasing busboys across the desert.
suspected drug smugglers. It must provide a path to legalization that has to Real leaders will have the courage to say that.
Arizona can no longer afford to tolerate elected be earned by the current undocumented popula- Real leaders are what we need.
officials who show so little interest in solving one tion. If they choose not to earn it, they choose not Arizona, our time for excuses is over.

IMMIGRATION NEWS: Federal statistics show no rise in crime in Arizona border cities. A1
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