Message #23177

[Kilika]

Again, they can pull people over during stops to check for immigration statuses, but these same illegals can still find work in the state?

Yep, pretty much! Buy cars, go to school, get state medical coverage, you know all the citizen stuff. 

But that issue shouldn't have been part of the bill in the first place. That's another legal argument to handle seperately I think.

Cops are not allowed to stop just to check immigration status. They never have been, nor were they going to by this bill. That's the argument the latino lobby here in the Phoenix area has been trying to claim, and it's not true. They have been trying to claim that cops are just running around and pulling over latinos, which is simply not true.

They are now allowed to check citizenship status during a detention for criminal investigation or arrest, as it should be if they are going to have territorial/citizenship rules. Otherwise, what's the point of borders?

Erika Andiola, an activist and undocumented immigrant in Arizona, said that the Latino community will not be happy with the decision, as the immigration checks portion of the law was most unpopular with them. "It's another message to the Latino community that if you look brown you're a perfect target for the police," she said.

We get these type inflammatory comments all the time around here. Now let's see illegals like this person run her mouth at a traffic stop. And I bet they won't be having any illegals at protests at the state capital any more like they have had openly in the past.