You talk about work visas, but do you understand how difficult, and in most cases, impossible it is for people to get work visas? The visa system is incredibly difficult to navigate, for both worker and employer, and our government has done little to fix it.

What does SB1070 solve? Does it help get farmers the workers they need? No. Does it do anything to fix the problems with the drug cartels? No. Does it address those families with mixed status? No. Does it help our economy? No.

If you would like to read about the facts behind immigration, I encourage you to check out azeir.org’s website. There are ways to fix the immigration problem, but only if we start with the facts.

Beyond all of that, this little nugget (from the brief) I truly hope the Supreme Court reads is the most asinine rationalization for the rejection of SB1070 I have ever read (other than “all supporters of SB1070 MUST be racist”):

“Hill & Usher, L.L.C., is an Arizona insurance company that insures businesses and individuals, including many construction companies. Hill & Usher joins this brief because it is worried about the burden S.B. 1070 imposes on the commercial insurance industry. For instance, proponents of S.B. 1070 argue that businesses should employ convicts to mitigate labor shortages caused by the law. Needless to say, forcing businesses to hire convicts, many of them violent felons, will greatly affect commercial insurance in Arizona.”

So, in other words, this particular company would rather have the companies it insures hire illegals than american citizens (or those on work visas) who may or may not be convicted felons. Therefore when an illegal gets hurt on the job, they just drop him/her off at an emergency room and let medicare take care of the bill (re: taxpayers), not the insurance company, because the insurance company doesn’t have to cover them financially. Yeah those meanie Republicans are just trying to discriminate against the poor downtrodden Latin people, who only want to come here for a better life, by helping convicts (of which a vast majority are of minority decent) get jobs. Yep, that’s AWESOME reasoning to drop SB1070 and what a way to help convicts break out the cyclical pattern of imprisonment.