Arizona’s Immigration Two-Step - Traumatized by a tidal wave of illegal immigrants, Arizona last year enacted the nation’s most pitiless law to punish employers who hire undocumented workers. Now state lawmakers, having proved that they mean business — even if it means killing off businesses — are reconnecting with reality: They want to import Mexican workers.

No state has been as unhinged by illegal immigration as Arizona, where by some estimates undocumented employees comprise up to 12 percent of the state’s workforce of 3 million, more than twice the national average. They have also fueled Arizona’s supercharged economy, which has grown faster — and with less unemployment — than almost anywhere else in the country.

Recently I visited the north Phoenix neighborhood of Palomino, which was virtually all white and Anglo 25 years ago. Today it is overwhelmingly Latino, teeming with taco joints and home to the city’s only day-labor center.”*

*From: http://www.washingtonpost.com
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