Since you ask for an opinion here is mine. The law should be changed so that police must check everybody's paper (not just suspected aliens.) If they want a 'police state', they must check all. We should expand it for nationwide. Many countries have national identification cards for their legal residences. Of course, the conservatives would never agree to this because of privacy rights, big brother watching, over stepping State's right, expanding federal government, ect.
No one is asking for a "Police State" here..The operative word here is illegal..People in this country illegally should be made to go through the system to become legal, or be deported. The border must be secured at all costs.
The Arizona law was passed because of growing frustration over illegal immigration.
The Arizona immigration law is basically a state level reflection of Federal law. Arizona passed the law at a state level so they would have authority to enforce the law, since the federal government refuses to enforce it.
Making a GREAT immigration law!
Paul Clement.
Arizona law enforcement officers are still required to observe reasonable suspicion and probable cause requirements to stop, detain and/or arrest someone, the same as before Arizona's new immigration law took effect. The new law allows officers to question people they detain to determine their immigration status. Prior to that law taking effect, immigration questions could constitute a violation of the detainee's civil rights, as Arizona LE officers were not empowered to enforce immigration laws.
the new immigration law in Arizona (SB 1070) was signed into law when Jan Brewer (Arizona's Governor) singed the papers in 27 of April 2010.
It's no way near as good as the Arizona immigration ted
Republican
The impetus behind introducing it and passing it is "the will of the people" of Arizona as expressed by their elected representatives to the state legislature. Much of the actual wording of the law follows, and comes from the wording of the US Federal statutes.
Because it is not fair to discriminate all the immigrants when some of the have been here for over 10 years and really deserve papers.
I think the immigration law is still being processed
The US Dept. of Justice is filing suit against the State of Arizona over the state's new law regarding immigration enforcement. The justification being used is what is called the "supremacy clause" of the US Constitution. This clause states that what is regulated by the federal government cannot be impinged upon by any individual state (or group of states). Immigration law has been the purview of the federal government. However, the State of Arizona plans to argue that it is merely attempting to enforce federal immigration law, rather than create a new law. This issue will, most likely, rise to the level of the Supreme Court.