I'm still skeptical. The illegal immigration is out of control, I don't know what the correct answer is. Whether you like the ACLU or not, this sentence from the article makes sense to me....
"This Arizona statute amounts to requiring the carrying of 'papers,' " McCreary said. "We just don't do that in America."
I take a lot of heat for my pro-socialism stances from posters spouting about the erosions of freedoms, and this may be an erosion of one of them. Let's look beyond the folks that have come across the southern border. Let's take an example I know about. A co-workers wife was deported back to her native Australia earlier this year. She had over-stayed her visa by YEARS. No one I spoke to knew she was here illegally, she was just a middle class housewife and mother. None of suspected a thing and I am not sure how here status was brought to the attention of the authorities. So to enforce this law, would the LEO use his best judgement to have probable cause? She has an accent? What would determine probable cause?
Driving across Texas was stopped at an immigration check point and the border patrol looked into my suburban at my four little blonde haired blue eyed girls sitting in the back and inquired "are they all US citizens" I couldn't help but laugh, but that's another story..."This requiring the carrying of 'papers,' we just don't do that in America."
OK, here's a possible solution...Pull a sting at Home Depot, note the contractors trucks picking up 'day laborers', raid the construction site, send the illegals home, sieze the assets of the contractor, i.e. tools, trucks & equipment. They do that for Johns in an effort to curb prostitution and they do it for street buys of illegal drugs...no due process, just straight up seizure. Do the same at resturant kitchens, hotel maid services. etc...seize the assets.
I mow my own lawn, rake my own leaves can't tell if the hispanic man that offered to do this for $100 4x a month is legal or not.