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Originally Posted by ShellyCrash
The rest of the country- yes, you are correct.
Arizona, not anymore.
That's what the push back is about.
If I'm walking down the street in AZ as a white girl no ones going to ask me for ID, but any time probable cause is removed from the equasion we all get put at risk. You can't let something that violates civil liberties set precident.
I hear what Jon is saying, most mexicans are just going to get a little hassle and then be on their way, but what if you lost your wallet, or left your ID at home. I've done it.
The difference between then and now is normally a cop wouldn't hassle you for ID unless you were doing something shady, so then if you wound up in a holding tank while they process you for the night you shouldn't have forgot your ID but more importantly you shouldn't have been doing something shady...
The slippery slope is this, if you take probable cause out of the equasion for this you can begin to use if for other scenerios as well. It may seem like it, but it's really not that far of a jump from you're hispanic let me see some id to you have tattoos let me search your car.
Probable cause is a check and ballance and its there for a reason. I cannot support its removal. I don't feel this is a last resort. I think there are more things the state can do that they haven't done.
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You can't do any of that before the law and you can't do any of that after the law - no part of the law allows them to profile a person.
They could already, before this law, ask you for your id, ask you for your papers, and then detain you because 'they thought you were illegal' - then they called border patrol and hours passed....then they finally got processed.
Now, they process them when they know they're illegal.
It's a law that gives them the extends power they have, ie: they already have some.
The only thing this State hasn't tried is locking it down totally and forcing an ID check on everyone... I would support it.