Stupid Banner of the Day

I'm not a big fan of the new Arizona law. Frankly, anything that allows authority figures to stop a person on the street and demand to see his papers smacks heavily of the Soviet Union/Nazi Germany, etc. However, whoever wrote this banner at MSNBC needs to be smacked hard:

By definition, status as an illegal immigrant is a crime (punishable by deportation). The Arizona law just gives the police new powers to enforce what is already an illegal act. This is my main objection. There are already sufficient laws that if they were simply enforced, illegal immigration would be a significantly smaller problem.

But that doesn't stop the MSNBC writer from being a moron.