{"id":6280,"date":"2010-07-28T17:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T21:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2010-07-28T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T21:27:32","slug":"arizona-immigration-ruling-a-be-careful-what-you-ask-for-moment-for-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6280\/arizona-immigration-ruling-a-be-careful-what-you-ask-for-moment-for-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Immigration Ruling:  A &#8220;Be Careful What You Ask For&#8221; Moment For Opponents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/07\/28\/federal-judge-rules-arizona-immigration-law-dispute\/\" target=\"_blank\">temporarily enjoined<\/a> portions of SB 1070, Arizona&#8217;s legislative effort to address the flood of illegal immigrants in that state.\u00a0 The enjoined portions will be put on hold pending the resolution of the underlying lawsuit, and appeal of the ruling is expected in any case.<\/p>\n<p>Two immediate reactions, however, immediately come to mind.\u00a0 First, it seems curious that the judge would justify her injunction on the basis that local enforcement creates a &#8220;burden&#8221; that only federal officials may impose, since the entire problem arises because federal officials are simply failing to enforce something they&#8217;ve made illegal.\u00a0 Second, opponents of SB 1070 may be celebrating what may prove a Pyrrhic victory.\u00a0 Specifically, how do such opponents expect the electorate, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_state_surveys\/arizona\/64_in_arizona_say_children_of_illegal_immigrants_should_not_automatically_become_u_s_citizens\" target=\"_blank\">heavily favors<\/a> the law, to react to a ruling that condones the federal government effectively sitting on its hands while a problem that it has made illegal festers?\u00a0 The backlash in the voting booth could be severe.\u00a0 Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has temporarily enjoined portions of SB 1070, Arizona&#8217;s legislative effort to address the flood of illegal immigrants in that state.\u00a0 The enjoined portions will be put on hold pending the resolution of the underlying lawsuit, and appeal of the ruling is expected in any case. Two immediate reactions, however, immediately come to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[846,981,1608,1607,1452],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arizona","tag-immigration","tag-injunction","tag-judge","tag-sb-1070"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6282,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions\/6282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}