Real issue is: how does the cop know the person is an immigrant (legal or not)? Citizens are not required to produce papers (not showing a drivers license is just a small matter of producing it later).
Contrary to many on FR, methinks this is the correct ruling. NOBODY should be subject to “papieren, bitte” (if you don’t understand that reference you have no business having an opinion on the topic).
This returns me to the opinion that the Right is fighting the wrong battle: the problem isn’t illegal immigration (that’s just the symptom), it’s the whole damned welfare state coupled with minimum wage and other regulations which make legal employment stupid expensive; the socialist system’s problems cannot stop supply-and-demand. End welfare, minimum wage, and overbearing regulations and the black-market demand for illegal immigrants will disappear along with the other freebies given thereto. They won’t come if there is no benefit in doing so.
“NOBODY should be subject to “papieren, bitte” (if you don’t understand that reference you have no business having an opinion on the topic).”
I understand your meaning and think it rediculous. You and I both have Drivers Licenses and so do the Germans.
I understand your desire for a government of individuals, but we have not had that in centuries. We are a government of Ghettos. If we cannot find any reason to protect our borders and our communities then we will always be prey to the “urban” interests. Whatever the big cities need will drive our national policy. The remainder of the country will become nothing more than colonies of urban centers. This is the future the Dem party plans for us. Just sayin.