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This was also covered by "This American Life" this past week: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/456/reap-what-you-sow?act=1 http://www.this
by jballanc 15y ago
This was also covered by "This American Life" this past week: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/456/reap-what-you-sow?act=1 http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/456/r...
The most interesting point from that piece is regarding the way it may incite bias. If it makes xenophobia even marginally more acceptable because "I'm just trying to enforce the immigration laws", then the damage is done. I have nothing against removing illegal immigrants, but if it is done in such a way that legal immigration is also discouraged then economic harm is sure to follow.
- zmonkeyz 15y agoSpoiler alert: Two things that blew my mind: Citizens were empowered to sue law enforcement who were caught not enforcing the immigration checks because of language in the bill. The other thing was that you have national platforms using states as petri dishes to see what laws gain any traction. I never even thought of it that way.