Mark: Immigration Policy Will Bite R’s

No matter your feelings regarding the merits of a single state - Arizona - taking action on immigration, there can be no doubt that what the state legislature and governor have done in the land of the Grand Canyon has set off another raging national debate. Boycotts are threatened. Lawsuits are planned. Makes you wonder, as Linda Greenhouse wrote, what the ol’ libertarian Barry Goldwater would have thought about a bill that requires police to ask a person they only suspect of immigration violations for their papers. The Arizona law has also, I suspect, firmly cemented the partisanship of immigration politics to the long-term detriment of the GOP/ Marc Johnson , The Johnson Post. More here .

Question: Is Marc Johnson right? Will Republicans live to regret that day they took a hard-nosed approach to immigration, as the state of Arizona has done?