Mexico braces for effects of Arizona immigration law

MEXICO CITY — The other side of the border is also preparing for the implementation of Arizona's new immigration law, which could lead to a surge of deportees back to Mexico.

Migrant shelters along the border in Mexico say they're bracing for new arrivals after the law goes into effect on Thursday.

Mexico's government has added more workers to its consulate in Phoenix to assist detained Mexicans. Migrants who have been deported say they're watching to see how the law is enforced before deciding whether to try again to cross the border illegally into Arizona.

"On the plane, everybody was talking about the law," said Ernesto González, a deportee who arrived here last week on a U.S. government flight from Tucson. "Everybody knows it's coming."

Arizona's law makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally. It requires police to check a person's immigration status when the person has been involved in another offense and the officer has reasonable cause to suspect the person is in the country illegally. The check can be made only during the course of a lawful police action, such as a traffic stop or investigation of a crime.

The law also allows Arizona citizens to sue police departments if they feel the new law is not being enforced — a provision related to "sanctuary cities," where local government officials refuse to enforce anti-illegal-immigration laws.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-07-26-mexicoarizona26_ST_N.htm

When global warming shifts the breadbasket north, it'll be our asses wanting into Canada!

While parts of it may get blocked by the courts (illegally in the country now a state crime), some of it (immigration checks during normal police action based on suspicion) will mostly likely remain. Its not an all or nothing kind of thing (severability)