This post originally appeared on Think Progress.
When President Obama condemned Arizona's draconian and potentially unconstitutional immigration law last Friday, he predicted that "if we continue to fail to act [on immigration] at a federal level, we will continue to see misguided efforts to open up across the country." Indeed, it's already happening.
Last week, Wonk Room reported on the involvement of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) — the legal arm of a designated nativist-extremist hate group — in drafting Arizona's controversial immigration law. IRLI lawyer Michael Hethmon boasting about being "approached by lawmakers from four other states who have asked for advice on how they can do the same thing." In the aftermath of the passage of Arizona's law, many states and localities across the country are in fact in the middle of or about to embark on copy cat pieces of legislation:
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