Posted on 04/26/2010 9:35:35 PM PDT by lbryce
he furor over Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants grew Monday as opponents used refried beans to smear swastikas on the state Capitol, civil rights leaders demanded a boycott of the state, and the Obama administration weighed a possible legal challenge.
Activists are planning a challenge of their own, hoping to block the law from taking effect by arguing that it encroaches on the federal government's authority to regulate immigration and violates people's constitutional rights by giving police too much power.
The measure — set to take effect in late July or early August — would make it a crime under state law to be in the U.S. illegally. It directs state and local police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal.
"If you look or sound foreign, you are going to be subjected to never-ending requests for police to confirm your identity and to confirm your citizenship," said Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, which is exploring legal action.
Employees at the Capitol came to work Monday to find that vandals had smeared swastikas on the windows. And protesters gathered for an eighth straight day to speak out against a law they say will lead to rampant racial profiling of anyone who looks Hispanic. The White House would not rule out the possibility that the administration would take legal action against Arizona. President Barack Obama, who warned last week that the measure could lead to police abuses, asked the Justice Department to complete a review of the law's implications before deciding how to proceed.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said the law is discriminatory and warned that trade and political ties with Arizona will be seriously strained by the crackdown.
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Quite so. Thanks for the info.
You are a legal visitor. No problem. You are “documented”. Have a nice stay.
I'm going to mention that indeed abuses have occured only because otherwise someone will cite a case where so-and-so was abused, falsely accused, arrested, the governemnt is evil, ad naueum ad infintum, so-on-and-so-forth. This is the land of the free, home of the brave. OK? And you know. I find your query replete with naivete. I wouldn't be surprised if you threw that question out, in rather troll-like fashion.
Do you think life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is just some mere ad slogan? I think not.
Another lie being pushed by the media.
The “furor” is over millions of illegals ruining this country...we’re quite capable of that on our own...
That's not the only law they break, because upon entry they need to secure a job, in order to do that they have to buy fake ID, which means a green card or some other form of ID and a SS number, which doesn't belong to them. Then they get paid under the table. Right there you have fraud, tax evasion and several other felonies thrown in the mix.
Despite some of the bleeding heart trolls we have on FR who say that there are "good" illegals and "bad" illegals, the simple fact is they are all criminals and need to be shipped the he** out of our country.
The only thing I am upset about is that our RINO governor Rick Perry doesn’t have the stones to champion a bill like this in Texas. God KNOWS we need it here.
“Add to that FAA pilot’s “
Not to mention ANY law enforcement agent at any level can ask for the license for any reason at any time. I’ve never had a ramp check but I have had to show it to law enforcement twice.
The law isn’t in place to see if people are citizens, it is in place in order to help catch people here illegally. If a person is here legally, then they are fine, if not then they are in trouble. Visas count as someone being here legally. This law is a mirror of Federal immigration laws, the only difference is Arizona will enforce the law where as the feds don’t.
It is federal law already,,,wonder how long it will take the refried bean/communist/ socialist/RATs to discover this? Hint;; It was in one of those bills they didn’t bother to read before they voted on it.
What idiots. AZ is doing nothing but enforcing FEDERAL law because the feds haven't. AZ's law ALREADY is law in all the states, including Illinois. It's just that AZ is tired of waiting around for federal enforcement. It has given its state and local officials authority and responsibility to enforce the same provisions that are in FEDERAL law.
"The Arizona law makes it a state crime for aliens not to have immigration documents on their person. This sounds draconian, except it's been a federal crime for more than half a century -- USC 1304(e). Has the open-borders crowd forgotten that it calls illegal aliens "undocumented" for a reason?"
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/extremism_not_o9rKer3pEtrJQ4YHPJL1rK#ixzz0mJvv7PGj
So, it is the law, other states just need to make it ALSO a state law so that they can enforce it!
As for being a law-abiding citizen/visitor - that's a virtue only dependent on the laws in force! Let me put it this way. I've been to the US six times in my lifetime, a total of less than three months, and I've been asked to prove my identity as many times as I have living 49 years in the UK.
So I put it to you. Is America still "the land of the free and the home of the brave"? I know it was once. I believe it can be so again. Now? Well, let's just say I wouldn't have asked the question in post #90 when I last visited, fifteen years back. I'm sorry if you found that upsetting, because actually, it's meant as a challenge.
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