Posted on 06/14/2012 8:19:13 AM PDT by kingattax
Arizona is already gearing up to enforce its strict immigration law as it anticipates a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court sometime this month, with Gov. Jan Brewer issuing an executive order this week telling police to bone up on the details of the law.
Mrs. Brewer ordered that training materials produced to help police understand the law and its limits should be distributed throughout the state in preparation for a ruling.
The materials, created by a state board that sets standards for all law enforcement, include a DVD designed to help police understand the circumstances that would let them question someone about immigration status.
That power has been the most controversial part of the law, SB 1070, which Mrs. Brewer signed in 2010 but was largely halted by lower federal courts as an infringement on federal powers.
In her order, Mrs. Brewer said the materials need to “make clear that an individual’s race, color or national origin alone cannot be grounds for reasonable suspicion to believe any law has been violated.”
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In Florida, I have to have to produce an original issue SSAN card, a certfied copy of my birth certificate,a copy of my marriage and in my case, divorce documents, and a current utility bill to prove my “identity” in order to renew my deacdes old drivers license.
Meanwhile, today there was a report in the local liberal rag that my Republican governor, Rick Scott, assured local farmers and ranchers that under no circumstances would they be required to e-verify the SSAN/ITN numbers proffered by migrant workers to prove legal status as foreign workers.
Because that would not be “fair” to ask them to compete against other farmers and ranchers who don’t use e-verify!
WTF is going on in this country?
Everyone is predicting a total win for Arizona, and that is making me very nervous.
The Supreme Court is not that predictable. We need to keep our enthusiasm within bounds until there is something solid to celebrate.
A few years ago when my nephew went to get his driver’s permit, we were in line behind an old man who couldn’t speak English, only Spanish, and a small boy did all the translating for the old man.
The man was able to get a drivers license. At no time did he show identification that I could see. When it was my hephew’s turn he showed his birth certificate. Then the DMV agent demanded my identification and wanted to know if I was his mother! Seeing a potential stumbling block, I lied, and said yes.
We are being turned into criminals in our own country while people, who may not be here legally, are given a free ride.
Make it a felony to be in the state without proper imigration status. Charge them and not release them without a plea. Felony conviction on the record if they fail to appear after initial release. Prevent them from being eligible for amnesty down the road.
Most of the former Gulags of the former USSR are out of business ~ they are vacant. Things have changed so much there it’s possible we could rent them!
“make them want to go the hell back to where they came from.”
They’ll just go to the Welfare State of California, or Nevada.
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