Nazis, Fascists, Apartheid: A Short History Of AZ Immigration Law Rhetoric
Arizona’s new immigration law is like South Africa during the Apartheid.
Google search results for “arizona immigration apartheid”: 131,000
Money quote [strangely, considering the smaller Google search results, there are a lot]: “What would Arizona’s revered libertarian icon, Barry Goldwater, say about a law that requires the police to demand proof of legal residency from any person with whom they have made “any lawful contact” and about whom they have “reasonable suspicion” that “the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States?” Wasn’t the system of internal passports one of the most distasteful features of life in the Soviet Union and apartheid-era South Africa?” [Linda Greenhouse/NYT]
Video highlight: Cynthia Tucker on This Week this past Sunday is the first person I heard employ this comparison.
