the new arizona immigration law. first of all, it is a killer issue, politically, for the democrats this fall. and a huge windfall for the right. it will anger even those people who believe the arizona law went too far. it will dramatize the main case raised by the tea party people. that the federal government in washington has become too powerful, that the rights of states have been terribly abridged. that is the political consequence and will be felt mightily this november. i say this realizing a critical problem with the arizona law. the policeman who stops a suspected illegal immigrant would under the new arizona law be required to check out thatter. 's immigration status, standing next to the stopped car, he would be the terribly unfair disadvantage. he might suspect the person of being in the country illegally. the illegal immigrant would know it and might well decide to fight it out rather than face deportation and separation from his or her family. it is not hard to imagine the desperate moral calculation this would trigger.