In case you missed it yesterday, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights policy director Fred Tsao penned a letter to the editor slamming Dennis Byrne for a recent Tribune column. In the piece, Byrne had questioned the Obama administration's lawsuit challenging Arizona's controversial new immigration law and wondered why they aren't doing the same thing in Rhode Island (where state troopers are allowed to check the immigration status of individuals stopped for minor offenses). Tsao's response:

It is astounding that columnist Dennis Byrne is able to write more than 700 words based on a misunderstanding of high school-level civics, as he did in "Immigration: A state or federal power?"  Byrne thinks that Arizona can pass its own immigration law because states and localities are already engaging in immigration enforcement. But the federal 287(g) program that he holds up as an example of local engagement is precisely that — a federal program.

Read the whole thing here.