Arizona Girds for Immigration Law

Wall Street Journal: It's high noon for Arizona's new immigration law, and those on the front lines are anxiously preparing to face their new reality. A group of deputy sheriffs gathered the other day in this dusty desert town to watch a video lesson on the intricacies of their sensitive new mission: nabbing illegal immigrants while writing tickets for routine infractions such as making a wrong turn. Fifty miles away on the outskirts of Phoenix, Hispanic parishioners filed into St. Margaret Catholic Church to watch skits in Spanish dramatizing ways to dodge police questions about their immigration status. Among the advice they got: Give someone power of attorney lest they are suddenly separated from their children. Amid the passions gripping the country about illegal immigration, the cram sessions are bringing what is a largely theoretical issue for many Americans to a visceral level here.