What unmitigated gall

There were not one but two front-page human-interest stories in Friday's Arizona Republic (apparently this sort of article is what passes for hard news over there these days) which described in detail all of the, you know, inconvenience that SB 1070 is causing all of the illegal aliens residing in this state, and how a significant percentage of them are preemptively leaving before the law becomes effective, which was kind of the point all along.

Infuriatingly, some of the undocumented people profiled in the first of the articles were actually willing to give their full names as well as list where their children go to school, almost as if they were publicly flaunting their illegal status one more time before hitting the road:

"Claudia Suriano is sitting with four fellow school volunteers at Brunson-Lee Elementary in Phoenix's Balsz district. She is among three who are leaving the state."

Back to her home country?  Hah.  Ms. Suriano and her husband (also an illegal alien) are simply off to New Mexico, where the city of Santa Fe has proudly been an official "sanctuary city" for illegals since 1999, and also now happens to be the burg whose oh-so-clueless business leaders are welcoming Arizona's illegals (all of them?) with open arms:

“'We are a sanctuary city and we welcome all people to Santa Fe,' said Keith Toler, executive director of the Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau."

Good luck with your smug policy, Keith.  Once your liberal residents, who think they're doing something positive for their city (and egos) get a taste of the kinds of issues Phoenix and Los Angeles have been dealing with for decades, they'll change your tune for you in a hurry, of that we're positive.

Then, of course, in the second article in Friday's Republic all of us hate-filled racist peasants get enlightened as to just why one illegal couple decided to both break our laws as well as butt in front of millions of other people waiting to get here the right way: 

"Juan and Maria are aware of the irony of their decision. They moved to this country, in part, so their children could have a better life."

Funny thing, that reason.  Turns out those wonderful children for whom the couple just had to break our laws to benefit were formerly imaginary kids they didn't have when they arrived here fifteen years ago:

"Francisco, 12, his older brother and younger sister were born in Phoenix."

Which, of course, makes them built-in living excuses to justify sparing their parents any consequences for their being here in illegally since, oh, 1995 or so.  "Anchor babies", the kids are sometimes called, since they are callously used to gin up sympathy for the parents, just like Juan and Maria are attempting to do right here.  It doesn't seem to be working anymore, though, as approximately 70% of Arizonans (and roughly the same percentage nationwide) are in favor of securing our borders while at the same time making it difficult enough for undocumented people to find formal work that they just give up and home.  

Which, again, is the whole point of the law - not to jail people because they happen to appear browner than everyone else, but simply to turn up the legal heat to the point that it's no longer worthwhile for people here illegally to risk staying here any longer, and they end up self-deporting themselves, hopefully back to their home nations in order to change them for the better.  

After all (and this is a truly important point), these exact people are for the most part the hardest-working, bravest and most resourceful of the residents of those countries, and are the very people that are needed to change those tinpot, corrupt cesspools of failure into functioning democracies of their own that can finally provide a decent standard of living for all of their citizens, not just the powerful elite (yes, we're pointing directly at you, Mexico).