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Originally Posted by The Demon
Also, glad this law is passed.
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Let's look at the law:
1. Federal law already makes it illegal to be in the US without documentation. It merely adds an Arizona statue that doesn't actually do anything Federal law doesn't already provide for.
2. The Arizona law only allows police to validate a person's documentation during the regular course of some other lawful investigation - a citation for jaywalking maybe, or responding to a domestic dispute at some apartment. It doesn't allow police to just stop people for looking Mexican.
3. The law STILL doesn't address the root issue, which is business hiring illegal immigrants.
Ron Reagan understand the complex issues involved when he pushed the immigration amnesty in '86. The man wasn't dumb. He was a very shrewd politician. In the end, other pieces of the law actually increased illegal immigration, but the overall intent was to strike a balance between the tax subsidy of illegals and the cost benefits to corporations (and hopefully the American public).
The Arizona law is just as useful as 2257 is to us. Politicians trying to make a name for themselves. In the end it won't make a lick of difference.