The police in Latin American will stop and asking for your id at any time. They use this technique to pick up criminals as well...this link (you will need google’s page translation feature to read it in English) shows how last week police captured a blood thirsty hit man nicknamed The Butcher for his delight in dismembering humans and feed them to his pit bulls. However, what Arizona enacted is common practice in Latin American so any Latin voice complaining (read here politician or talking head like that clown Geraldo Rivera that claims to be a voice for Latinos when the sap can’t even speak Spanish)...anyway read at your own risk...the descriptions are somewhat shocking...http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/justicia/la-macabra-historia-del-carnicero-de-las-farc_7620974-1
So will the police in any Middle Eastern Country. We had a Lebanese friend when we lived in Washington State. His relatives in Lebanon bad mouthed America all the time (despite his many hand outs and gifts that he provided them). On one trip home, his cousins and uncles set upon him and started beating him up because he was living in the USA instead of being home fighting their war against Syria. After they had punched him for a while, they started complaining about all the imagined American affronts.
My friend brought his sister into the room and asked her to tell the others how they had travelled 1000 miles in the USA, through several states, without ever being stopped and asked for ID. She assured the others that it was true, and they were amazed. They were being stopped by militia when moving from one neighborhood to another.
They all would come here to visit and to seek medical care, BTW.