Listening to some of the wingnuttery surrounding the Arizona Papers-Please Law from my right-wing friends (I really don't have that many right wing friends, but will always be at least a few of these folks in my life), would have you believe that left-wing Democrats, if given their way would swing the door (borders) wide open to illegal immigrants. We have heard them say, "Obama wants to open the borders and let them all in, with no checks or limits, no penalties, no consequences, and so on.
Look there's the squiggly thing!
But last time I checked, Obama isn't opening the doors. In fact, if you ask most Democrats they too will tell you that they are concerned about the high numbers of undocumented people and the strain that it plays on the US social infrastructure. So considering that we have common concerns about illegal immigration, what is the big difference between our left vs. right opinions? What are we arguing about anyway?
Okay, there's the usual hate-Obama-crowd, who will make up and/or believe anything that goes against the President. For example: Since he is an illegal immigrant himself he is sympathetic to aliens jumping onto our land, stealing our jobs, breaking and entering, spicing our food, changing our language, perverting our culture, overpopulating, pretending to be citizens so that they can run for President, etc.
Consider that extremist crap against the more moderate (leftist?) realization that immigration is a very complex issue that can't simply be fixed by building a fence.
Pretty soon, you cut right to the real difference between sides in this debate when you realize that it's not about illegal immigration at all. It's about illegal immigration by brown people. Once the racism is realized and put on the table as the barrier between the sides, everything becomes more clear.
Full disclosure - I'm white. I mean, I am as white as white can be. Suburban American male white. And 50 year old. I presume that if I were to drive through Arizona, I am not going to need my "papers" to prove that I am an American: "I'm sorry officer, I don't have my birth certificate on me at the present time. Can I go? Thank you officer."
You know I'm right. And that is IF the police would even ask this middle-aged whitey for his papers. Which they wouldn't.
So to say that the Arizona law is simply racist is facing up to simple facts. I'm not liberally biased for thinking so. And any Supreme Court justice wouldn't have to be the least bit biased toward liberalism to oppose the law. He or she wouldn't have to be a leftist. He or she would simply have to be right.