It is more specific than other pieces about the ramifications that these draconian laws would have implemented. There are still holes, but for an opinion piece it comes off sounding fairly grounded and paints a picture of what the post Arizona Armageddon might look like. I would have liked to have known the full number, range and nature of each bill. Five bills were mentioned, but how many of them are as extreme? Is it a fair sampling of the proposed measures? And how many still have enough life in them to become laws? All in all it was an effective editorial piece in that it showed the unintended consequences when you tie the well-being of the largest immigrant population (and a productive community it is), with the ... More »

The story seems to skim the surface of a rather common activity these days, the splitting up of families without enough forethought to think of the ramifications for children, many if not all US citizens. The story might be an introduction to the topic for most readers, but it fails to touch on the scope and shocking inhumanity of this practice. Another "angle" might have been the more prevalent practice of sending mom or dad back home to Latin America, while keeping the children stranded stateside, thus fracturing the family unit so important to magical-thinking neo-cons, and further impoverishing a struggling demographic.