Here’s a doozy.

The Times ran a story this morning about the upstate New York town of Jackson in Washington County (about 20 miles east of Saratoga Springs) that passed an ordinance in early March requiring all official town business to be conducted only in English.

In late April, the NYCLU kindly gave Jackson officials a heads up that their ordinance was all kinds of bad: unconstitutional, illegal, bad policy, etc.

Under our analysis, the ordinance would prevent the town’s elected officials from communicating with constituents who do not speak English; keeps citizens from accessing critical government information; and impedes tourists from obtaining advice or directions from town officials. It doesn’t even make an exception for medical or police emergencies when public health and safety are at stake. The courts have struck down laws like this before and there’s no reason to believe why Jackson’s would fare any better.

There are endless reasons why the Town of Jackson’s ordinance is problematic and anti-immigrant at its core, but there’s a more important lesson here.

Just like Arizona’s anti-immigrant SB1070 passed last month, more and more states and localities will continue to try to take fixing our broken immigration system into their own hands until Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform that respects everyone’s rights and dignity.