First of all, sorry I’ve been away for a while. If you didn’t notice, I tried to avoid political discussion during Lent. Since then, I have been completing my dissertation and trying to get a job. (I just got back from a campus visit at Wabash College; wish me fortune.)
But I had come back, however briefly, for this. Upon reading about the recent “law” passed in Arizona, here are two quick remarks:
- A practical question: What does a potential illegal immigrant look like exactly? The answer seems to spell out what is wrong with this so-called “law.” Which bring me to…
- This is not a “law.” It makes no “legal” demands on human action. As Augustine put it: “An unjust law is no law at all.”
Now the work ahead will be to carefully explore what this means and is more carefully. If we find its effects to be unjust, then, we must reject it and obey the true law of justice.
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