Krysten Sinema’s missed opportunity

Joe Guzzardi
Imperial Valley Press
October 23, 2021

When pro-immigration activists accosted Krysten Sinema, in a ladies’ room stall earlier this month, the Arizona senator missed a great opportunity to score points with the state’s Independent and Republican voters.

Sinema, an adjunct School of Social Work professor at Arizona State University since 2003, was followed into a campus bathroom and recorded while inside. Living United for Change in Arizona, a radical organization, posted the Sinema video, which include a student identifying herself as illegally present.

Taping and then distributing the video, which is what Sinema’s brazen student activists did, violates Arizona law. Add that threatening a sitting senator is a federal felony that can land violators in prison for up to five years.

Instead of ducking the agitators, Sinema could have given them a brief review of immigration law, which clearly states that unlawfully present aliens are subject to immediate removal, that deferred action isn’t law but was created through presidential executive action, and that she was elected to represent all Arizonans’ interests, not just the alien lobby.