Cesar Conda (a former Tamar Jacoby co-author and signatory to the "Conservative Statement of Principles on Immigration") raises questions about the new Arizona immigration law here, saying among other things:

[It's because of questions over what is and what isn't "lawful contact"] why conservatives like Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Tunku Varadarajan, David Boaz of the Cato Institute, Bob Barr, and others have raised concerns about the Arizona law, and specifically that this "reasonable suspicion" standard could lead police officers to unreasonably single out legal immigrants and American citizens. Some proponents of the new law contend that the only likely context where this law would come into play is a traffic stop. But what appears to be a speeding van filled with illegal immigrants could also be an American family of ethnic origin driving through Arizona on vacation and going a little over the speed limit.

1. It would be beyond naive to think that those listed came out against the law for purely pure reasons. Bush and the Cato Institute are cheap labor hacks that have sought to prevent other forms of immigration enforcement. It's not clear what Barr's problem is, whether he's under the control of those who want to profit from illegal labor or whether it's his libertarian ideology. However, the chances of it simply involving concerns about the law are slim.

2. The chances of anyone not being able to tell the difference between a van full of family members on vacation and a van full of unrelated illegal aliens is exceedingly slim, so slim that Conda must think readers of the Corner are extremely naive idiots.