Immigration post trick: three is a magic number

While SF welcomes and seems to benefit from border crime money, Arizona is making life a nightmare for immigrants and plenty of residents and citizens too. With pride, they speak of proving a state can do it alone, without the feds:

In recent years it has barred illegal immigrants from receiving government services, from winning punitive damages in lawsuits and from posting bail for serious crimes. A new state law shuts down businesses that hire illegal workers. And the sheriff of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and three-fifths of the state's population, dispatches his deputies and volunteer "posses" to search for illegal street vendors or immigrants being smuggled through the county. . . .

Juan Carlos Ochoa, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in an upper-middle-class subdivision near Phoenix named Laguna Hills, can't find a job because a government database classifies him as a possible illegal immigrant. Pauline Muñoz, a 39-year-old mother of six who was born in Phoenix, has been afraid to leave her apartment since being held by sheriff's deputies for 15 hours for a driving infraction -- an example of what she believes is racial profiling.

The problem is the E-verify system that, if you aren't up-to-date with Social Security, can label you as a possible illegal. Not for sure, just possible. Getting duplicate papers, however, can take up to 10 months from Department of Homeland Security.

This article doesn't contain any jaw-droppingly offensive moments, but it is disquieting nonetheless. That Arizona takes such pride about running people out of town. And I wonder how, like, New Mexico feels.