THAT ARIZONA BOYCOTT REALLY GETS RESULTS: Utah’s governor cancels plans for a special session intended to weaken his state’s restrictions on hiring illegal workers:
Amid the fallout from Arizona’s aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration, Gov. Gary Herbert has scrapped plans to call a special session to water down a bill requiring businesses to verify the legal residency of employees.
Legislators balked at making the change and some wanted to go in a different direction, adding tough new penalties for not checking a worker’s legal status and even suggesting Utah should adopt Arizona’s law requiring residents to prove they are in the country legally — an unsettling prospect for business leaders.
The boycott might seem like a miscalculation on the left, unless the whole point is to lose — noisily.
And how likely is that? Why, it would make millions of immigration reform advocates look like rubes …