Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona recently signed the newest, and toughest, illegal immigration bill into law. Even before the bill was signed, protests against the bill began reigniting the battle over national immigration laws. President Obama strongly criticized it, stating that the law threatened to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe.
Marco Rubio, a Republican representative of the US Senate, commented that although he sympathizes with the concern about crimes committed by illegal immigrants, the new law goes too far, by giving police the power to arrest immigrants. He commented that,
I think the law has potential unintended consequences, and it’s one of the reasons why I think immigration should be a federal issue, not a state one.
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