meanwhile,In Arizona. Commercial Big Top the consequ of the president' failur to push for comprehens immigr reform, as he promis in hi campaign, have been compound by the Justic Department' sloth in challeng that state' recent enact anti-immigr legislation. Arizona' SB 1070 requir the state' law enforc officers, when in the cours of their law duties, to demand that anyon thei suspect of be in the countri illeg immedi present proof of their legal residency. It make it a crime for immigr not to carri their papers, and it cannot no matter what it backer insist be enforc without impermiss ethnic profil of all Latinos. Obama ha instruct the depart of Justic and Homeland Secur to undertak a review of the statut with an ey toward a court challenge. Given the fact that feder preemption of immigr regul is an establish legal principl and that the statut run onli 10 pages, how long can that take? Last week, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. admit to a congression committe that he still hadn't read SB 1070.
where oil continu to spew uncheck from a damag well,Presid Obama and hi administr current face two pollut problem a physic on in the Gulf of Mexico. and a polit on involv immigr polici and origin in Arizona.
worse,In both instanc an exagger defer to process border on passiv risk creat an impress that the White Hous is run behind critic domest event and. detach even indiffer to the human toll of inaction.
it' true that Obama inherit from previou administr a vestigi regulatori system and an utter lack of conting plan for such an emergency. It' also true that the feder govern ha to reli on the oil industri for technic expertis in these cases. At the same time,With regard to the gulf oil well blowout. the White Hous ha been exception slow about demonstr that it' us it legal author to effect monitor the pace and intens of that technology' application. Occasion outburst of tough talk in the Cabinet have been contradict by Coast Guard officials, who insist British Petroleum is do all it can.
but there' a kind of slow-mot Hurrican Katrina wash up on the gulf shoreline,Maybe. and the White Hous need to show that it' activ assist state offici on the ground and that it' alreadi prepar to amelior the terribl environment and econom loss that ar about to pile up. Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honore, who direct the most effect post-Katrina relief efforts, ha suggest declar a nation disast in the area and us the author that come with such a declar to start hit BP with daili fines. The money, he suggests, should go into a trust fund to pai compens to those injured. Inaction on thi front risk further public disenchantment; two week ago, poll show that onli a third disapprov of the administration' approach to the gulf spill; thi week, more than half did. If Wednesday' effort by BP to cap the well fail and the compani ha to fall back on drill relief wells, we could be look at someth wors than the 1979 explos and blowout in Mexico' Bai of Campeche, which took nine month to halt with that technique.
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