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November 09, 2011

16 Nations Agree ...

While it's somewhat humbling to agree with outside powers trying to tell us what to do, I've got to go with the Justice Department and our neighbors down south on this one:

Sixteen Latin American and Caribbean nations on Tuesday asked to join the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against South Carolina’s new illegal immigration law amid fears it would lead to their citizens facing state-sanctioned discrimination.

Mexico, Honduras, Brazil, Ecuador and Chile were among the nations filing papers Tuesday, asking to join the litigation filed by the Justice Department last week in Charleston.

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It's frustrating that the federal government has been dragging its feet when it comes to any large-scale immigration law reform or changes, but creating a patchwork of state laws in the meantime isn't the right answer and will only lead to more confusion, not less.

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