2 Officers Sue, as AZ Immigration Law Debate is Not Slowing Down

PHOENIX – Arizona's tough new law cracking down on ******* immigration is dividing police across the nation, pitting officers against their chiefs and raising questions about its potential to damage efforts to fight crime in Hispanic communities.

Two officers are challenging the law in court, while police unions that lobbied for it are defending it against criticism from police officials...

On Monday, police bosses from Maryland and Nevada condemned the law, saying that it could suck up vital resources and destroy delicate relationships with immigrant communities if implemented in their own states. There are at least nine other states considering similar legislation.

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A lady was robbed at *** point about three houses down from mine last summer. The two **** took the ****** out and pointed it at her head in broad daylight (my neighbor saw the whole thing). When the rollers came up I had a nice chat with one of them and asked him if police liked citizens to legally own firearms and that I had heard police didn't like the 2nd Amendment. He said just like anyone else, cops have differing and diverse opinions as well; there are liberal ones and conservative ones. But he said he was all for it and that police are three times more likely to die from a stabbing than they are from a *** shot.

The moral? Some cops are just looners and some of them have common sense. It appears these cops have an agenda (and they could quite possibly be Hispanic ethnically).
 
I'm still not sure what all the debate is over, since it's really just AZ choosing to enforce Federal Immigration law, which is referenced constantly by code section in the AZ bill. There are numerous places where it says you cannot base a complaint solely on appearance, race, or accent of a person.

Strangely, most of the folks who challenge me on how racist I am have failed to do one very important thing- look up the bill and read it. But hey- why do that? The attorney general of the united states ripped it to shreds, and he hadn't read it either. :dunno:

I guess the text of the law isn't as important as how it makes you feel when the news media reports about it. And for the president to make classless jokes about a state of the country he's supposed to be leading makes me call into question, once again, his campaign promise to unite everyone.

READ THE BILL- it is federal immigration law, just being made to be enforced now by AZ authorities. No profiling, no racism. Just federal immigration law that is YEARS old. And hey- it's only 10 pages long, so its not like it will take anyone days to pick through, like the vague, ominously ambiguous health"care" bill.
 
READ THE BILL- it is federal immigration law, just being made to be enforced now by AZ authorities. No profiling, no racism. Just federal immigration law that is YEARS old. And hey- it's only 10 pages long, so its not like it will take anyone days to pick through, like the vague, ominously ambiguous health"care" bill.

Agreed. This has been Federal law since 1940. And the pertinent information is not even close to 10 pages long...

Aliens and Nationality - 8 USC Section 1304
...(d) Certificate of ***** registration or ***** receipt card. Every ***** in the United States who has been registered and fingerprinted under the provisions of the ***** Registration Act, 1940, or under the provisions of this chapter shall be issued a certificate of ***** registration or an ***** registration receipt card in such form and manner and at such time as shall be prescribed under regulations issued by the Attorney General.
(e) Personal possession of registration or receipt card; penalties. Every *****, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of ***** registration or ***** registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection.
(d) of this section. Any ***** who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both...

8 USC Section 1304
http://law.onecle.com/uscode/8/1304.html

Aliens and Nationality - 8 USC Title 8
http://law.onecle.com/uscode/8/index.html
 
These cops are doing the smart thing by not wanting to participate in ********* the civil liberties of citizens :hatsoff:
 
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