This entire debate would be over if closing the border meant BOTH sides and requiring ID meant from EVERYONE not just Hispanics.
In fact, Arizona should first put their law enforcement thru a background check to make sure they are legal. They should sign a binding affidavit that they have no illegals as relatives nor are friends and family married to or dating illegals. THEN they can go about carding EVERYONE, even the guy living in their town some 70 yrs and fought in WW2; I mean how do we know his parents didn't illegally bring him from Hungry or Germany?
This really is a loser issue: if you don't treat everyone the same, you open up endless racist charges and suits. If you do, you go bankrupt with the manpower needed
With the Supreme Court taking up Arizona's "show me your papers" immigration law, we're once again thrust into a useful debate over the role of the government and the obligations of the citizen -- and non-citizen. Rather than come at it from the usual angle, I thought I'd try something different.
If there were one thing I could impress upon people about the nature of the state, it's that governments by their very nature want to make their citizens "legible."
I borrow that word from James C. Scott, whose book "Seeing Like a State" left a lasting impression on me. Scott...
You are promoting a fascist National Police State...with your "Papiers Bitte"! mentality.....to go along with your bigotry and your accepting of State Socialism and its "benefits".