David Brooks: Dems Will Now Push Immigration To Get Latinos To Polls In Nov.

On Meet the Press yesterday the New York Times‘ David Brooks weighed in on the topic on everyone’s mind this weekend: Arizona’s new immigration law. Echoing his NYT counterpart Paul Krugman, Brooks concern was less about the civil right abuses the law may leave a (very big) open window for, than how this new law will allow the Democrats to push at lot of other important stuff to the side and focus on what will be the hot button item this summer.

First of all, I think this bill in Arizona is an invitation to abuse. You’re going to have the government making decisions on the basis of race. And at what level are they making these decisions? At the cop level, in the worst possible circumstances, when people are angry? It’s an invitation to sort of racial profiling and abuse. So I think it’s terrible. But the worst effect is happening back here because now we have the Democrats promising to have a comprehensive immigration bill before any of the preparatory work has been done, pushing aside a lot of other stuff, like cap and trade and energy. And why are they doing it? For purely political reasons because a lot of Democrats, including Harry Reid who is trying to get re-elected in Nevada, need to really fire up Latino voters to get them to come out to the polls.

Video of the segment below.

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