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I was talking to a police friend of mine about the law and he made some great points. Supposedly they will need probably cause to stop you before they can ask you about your immigration status. What this will do is allow them to ask people that they pull over for traffic stops, or if they get called to their homes etc if they are illegals. There are many places in the country where the police will stop someone at a traffic stop, find out they are illegal and yet not be able to do anything about it. Now they will be able to.
Supposedly they can't just look at you and see you have brown skin and look Mexican and stop you. The potential problem as he pointed out, is that there are enough laws on the books that a cop can stop just about any car on the road that they want. I wonder how long it will be before we see people stopped and cars stopped for pretty lame reasons. The other thing that might bother me is that it required legal immigrants to carry their papers on them at all time. That kind of spooks me.
For me, this law is a win for the lawyers. The city of Phoenix is already going to sue. The ACLU is going to sue and you know that someone will be asked for their papers, not have them and end up arrested only to be found innocent and they too will then sue.
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