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I think the obvious controversy with this law is the implementation and the costs for implementation as well:
Flaws:
-There are plenty of LEGAL residents of the US/AZ in AZ. Many of them have accents and are not white. What are the costs associated with wrongly arresting legal residents? What are the costs associated with all the lawsuits associated with that occurring?
-How come EVERYONE is not required to be carrying their proof of citizenship? Their social security card, birth certificate or what have you? That would then be fair game that anyone could be asked and not profiled. However, proof of citizenship is an important document that you don't want to have lost or stolen. So now Legal residents need to carry around very important, valuable, and private documentation that if lost or stolen is extremely difficult and costly to replace.
-What is this solving for? I live in AZ and have not been negatively impacted by anyone whether legal or illegal. Healthcare in AZ costs less then in other states that have less illegal immigrants. Whenever I go to the Dr. or hospital, I get in, it's not full of illegal immigrants (Actually, I'm pretty sure for the most part they'd prefer to get medical treatment in their own country). I have not met a single person who said they couldn't find a job b/c illegal immigrants were applying for the job they had. Maybe the only valid thing could be border drug violence, but this law does nothing with that, so I'm still at a loss.
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