[HiTech RedNeck]

These “obvious cases” would have been caught anyhow. It’s when it’s pressed to the “less obvious cases” — making the law more than symbolic — that the problems will come

[snarkybob]

“These “obvious cases” would have been caught anyhow. It’s when it’s pressed to the “less obvious cases” — making the law more than symbolic — that the problems will come”

Or after the first wrongful imprisonment case when an American citizen who happens to be Hispanic is arrested for no other reason than being Hispanic and not having an ID on their person.

[muawiyah]

Here's the problem for the illegal entrant or visa overstay when they are found to be here unlawfully ~ that particular difficulty, though civil in nature, becomes their NUMBER 1 PROBLEM, not ours.

None of them are "hard cases" at all.

I think the concern is the one best expressed by this lady on TV yesterday who claims she's a Bishop of some kind: "Our ministers, preachers and rabbis in our churches and synagogues tell us they have members who fear being detained".

SYNAGOGUES? People in synagogues ~ valid members ~ fear being detained because they presumably don't carry IDs of any kind?

There's a lot of phoney baloney going around regarding this law ~ that it targets Jews is a part of that.

If Mexican Jews belong to synagogues in Arizona, then what about those Jews who were being burned at the stake in Mexico in the 1840s? I thought all but a handful of Mexican Jews abandoned that country over that issue, and those who remain live mostly in Juarez (and presumably own helicopters for quick exits if necessary).

All of which takes us to the point of "what people fear", and I hope they "fear a lot of stuff" and return to their country and help it join civilization again.