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Have you read the Arizona law?
May 17th, 2010
Eric Holder, the US Attorney General is considering a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of Arizona’s new law allowing police to ask for citizenship for people stopped for criminal activity. When asked in a congressional committee whether he had read the law, he said he had not.
Our AG is opposed to a law he has not read. This makes sense. A state is trying to make use of the tenth amendment and take responsibility for a problem that is harmful to its citizens. The federal government does not want this problem dealt with because the problem causes the federal government to have to increase in size to deal with all the fallout this problem creates. Actually dealing with the problem would not be beneficial to the federal bureaucracy.
Have you read the law? Below is the text of the law. For more information, here is a nice long article describing the law and the problem it confronts?
Take the poll to tell us whether you agree with this law.
In a nutshell, the Arizona law says if you have a criminal in custody, before you let him go you need to check his immigration status. How hard is that? How bad is that? Why does that tick off the elitist pinheads of the progressive party?
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2 Responses to “Have you read the Arizona law?”
I have, and it is really wierd… it says nothing about allowing anyone to ask for "papers" because of what they look like. No, they must have another cause, like the commission of a crime, say speeding… and an officer of the law pulls over someone, he may then ask for proof of citizenship.
It really is wierd!
it specifically prohibits racial profiling. It does allow an officer with probable cause to believe that a crime has occurred to ask for id papers. The federal law for resident aliens requires them to carry papers that describe their immigration status. A driver license is only given to citizens and legal aliens, so that would work for most people. The law also requires anyone being released from custody to prove citizenship.
All in all I wish every state had a law like this one. well, Actually they do because the law is . patterned after and cites the federal laws for the same purpose. This makes it more likely to be enforced locally because the federal law is not being enforced at any level.