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Meet Adam Serwer, blogger for the Center for American Progress, who’s awfully fun. And just like Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano, he thinks it’s fine to criticize that infamous Arizona law without taking twenty minutes to, you know, read it. Neat!

Yes, apparently instead of the AZ law. RT @AdamSerwer: Takeaway is that Eric Holder reads @theprospect. http://bit.ly/9LqFOK

@bdomenech cute, but nominal “color-blindness” in AZ law won’t change what it is in intended to be in practice.

@AdamSerwer What’s cute is that he’d admit not reading the law before criticizing it. I mean, it’s 10 pages.

@bdomenech immigration enforcement has typically been providence of federal govt. Don’t need to read the law to know that.

@AdamSerwer So why did Holder promptly promise to go home tonight and read it? If, as you say, he doesn’t need to read it to criticize.

@bdomenech doesn’t need to read it to note there might be a problem, he does before making a decision about what DoJ will do. Obvious, no?

@AdamSerwer Ok. If AG doesn’t have to read before criticizing, just hope you have same attitude toward people criticizing health care law.

@bdomenech More sympathetic than I am towards people who introduce complete non-sequiturs into arguments.

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Via Moe Lane, I see Eugene Robinson is angry about the new Arizona law requiring that people stopped for another legal offense must provide proof of immigration status if an officer requests it. Robinson is shocked that:

Legal immigrants will be required to carry papers proving that they have a right to be in the United States.

Sports personality Kevin Blackistone is also offended, arguing that Arizona should be banned as a locale for sporting events. Heavens to Murgatroyd, it’s the new police state!

Except, as anyone who has any immigrants in the family knows, it’s already the law (see page 8).

As a permanent resident, it is your responsibility to…Carry proof of your permanent resident status at all times.

Yes, any permanent resident is legally required to have their relevant ID on them at all times. This wasn’t enforced for domestic travel to any significant degree pre-9/11, but after that, it’s been enforced at a higher rate.

The utility of this Arizona law is a matter for debate. But Robinson and Blackistone could’ve at least bothered to ask a legal immigrant (if they know anyone who is) about the existing requirement before getting all verklempt.

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>> I got a little heat when I raised the issue a few months back, but no one should be surprised that now the nomination belongs to McCain, the MSM is crowing about the Natural Born Citizen issue.  Personally, I doubt that the Senate bill will resolve anything – there will still be a lawsuit about this at some point – but it is nice to occasionally be called clairvoyant.  It happens rarely enough for me outside of NFL predictions.