Posted on 04/29/2010 11:50:47 AM PDT by aft_lizard
Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) ripped into the new Arizona immigration law today, comparing it to Nazy Germany.
"This law of 'frontier justice' – where law enforcement officials are required to stop anyone based on 'reasonable suspicion' that they may be in the country illegally – is reminiscent of a time during World War II when the Gestapo in Germany stopped people on the street and asked for their papers without probable cause," Mack said in a statement.
"This is not the America I grew up in and believe in, and it’s not the America I want my children to grow up in," he added.
The Arizona law would allow law enforcement officers who come into legal contact with individuals to demand proof of citizenship if there is a "reasonable suspicion" that person may be undocumented.
Considered a potential candidate for statewide office in Florida, Mack's position may help with the state's large Hispanic population.
United States v. Brignoni-Ponce:
United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873 (1975), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution does allow a roving patrol of the United States Border Patrol to stop a vehicle near the United States–Mexico border and question its occupants about their citizenship and immigration status, when suspicion that the occupants appear to be of Mexican ancestry, combined with other articuable facts. Except at the border and its functional equivalents, patrolling officers may stop vehicles only if they are aware of specific articulable facts, together with rational inferences therefrom, reasonably warranting suspicion that the vehicles contain aliens who may be illegally in the country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Brignoni-Ponce
another traitor
Hey Mack—read the bill, you moron.
Connie Mack, professional panderer.
Another RINO smoked out.
Who is this Mack person
Matbe he would prefer America become like Mexico:http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_14980973
Term limits.
Another “Republican” who has gotten far too comfortable with the trappings of being part of the elitist Beltway machine.
Connie Mack is John McCain with a tan....................
Mr. Idiot, I mean Mack, how is it reminiscent if these are two totally different circumstances like you state?
He used to be one of our Senators from Florida, now in the House.............
Connie Mack, who was infatuated with Charlie Crist until recently, can take a flying leap.
Surely there aren’t that many fools in the Republican Party. These people are just imbeciles.
? F'n lie. This peckerhead grew up in an America when there were no illegal immigrants and before the flood gates were opened by Kennedy.
Our Cardinals used to pound the Phillies in old Connie Mack Stadium-named for his grandfather I believe.
Another moron — I don’t care if he is a Republican — who hasn’t read the law he’s yapping about. The law expressly bars police stops made on suspicion of illegal status. The stop has to be for a valid, different reason.
Now that he has shot off his mouth, maybe he could sit down and actually read the law.
“”This is not the America I grew up in and believe in, and it’s not the America I want my children to grow up in,” he added”
So leave. And take a couple dozen illegals with you.
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