Jay had a piece on Arizona in the magazine a couple of issues ago, which I just got around to reading (sorry!); you have to subscribe to read it, but he riffs on the piece here. Jay notes that massive immigration from Mexico is one of the forces favoring the Democrats there: “If the state continues to Hispanicize and Californiaize, without Republican capturing of hearts and minds, it will be outright blue.”

My colleague Jerry Kammer examines the face of a blue Arizona in a new profile of Rep. Raul Grijalva, the hard-left Democrat whom mass immigration elected as representative of the state’s 7th District in the U.S. House. There are a few House members who are more left-wing (he’s got a 3.33% lifetime rating from the ACU, 100% from the ADA, and an F- from Numbers USA), but not many, which is why he’s co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

I especially liked this passage, which gives a sense of the utter insincerity of the open-borders crowd when they talk about the need for enforcement:

Even that massive expansion of legal immigration, as envisioned in the 2007 bill expansively dubbed the STRIVE Act, for “Security Through Regularized Immigration in a Vibrant Economy,” was not enough for some of Grijalva’s oldest and closest friends and allies in Tucson. During a meeting at the El Pueblo Neighborhood Center in Tucson, Grijalva tried to calm their anger at the bill’s provisions for border enforcement.
According to the Arizona Daily Star, Grijalva responded: “In a perfect, perfect world we’d have an open border, but … with immigration we have to deal with reality.” Some enforcement, he acknowledged, was the price for the sweeping reforms he wanted.