[VeniVidiVici]

The laws vary in their details but share a common strategy: to make it impossible for people without papers to live without fear.

I've worked for the same company for over 10 years and just last summer I (along with everyone else) was forced to sign new papers certifying my citizenship WITH supporting paperwork, i.e. birth certificate with seal, passport, voter ID, etc. So the NYT whining about "papers" and their poor little illegal aliens can KMA.

[ClearCase_guy]

Yup. As a Native Born Citizen, hard-working and productive, I have to produce identification papers all the time. It's no big deal, just part of my life and has been for years.

As far as I can see, the only folks who don't have to produce papers are the folks who are here illegally. They seem to be immune from most of the legal niceties which are part of my normal life, I guess they've had it easy.