AZ immigration bill

There will be backlash I am sure. But I bet there will be a few less illegal immigrants there! Crap, I am in Colorado, I bet they are heading this way!

I think the bill is great and other states need to make even harsher laws. Stop putting the interest of others before ours. We are not welcome mats.

Obama is totally against this bill.It must be the right thing to do,because Obama's wrong about everything,so far.

I lived in Arizona for 28 years. I think this new law is mostly a very public cry for help from the feds who are SUPPOSED to be protecting our borders. Napolitano was governor before she was tapped for Homeland Security head and she did NOTHING--said it was up to the feds. Now she's still doing nothing. I don't think the law that has been passed was intended to violate civil rights but draw attention to the dangerous situation the border states are in. The POTUS is now calling for something to be done so the law succeeded in getting his attention. It disturbs me to think that police can ask for papers from anyone. But as for racial profiling, who is more likely to be an illegal alien, a blond from Norway or an olive-skinned, dark haired person who can't speak English? Get real. That doesn't make it right but hollering about racial profiling makes about as much sense as body searching a grandma in a wheelchair at the airport while letting the young Middle Eastern man breeze on through security. This issue will get a lot better and the law will be useless if the feds would just police the border, put up a REAL fence (like 15 feet high concrete with razor wire) and get serious about what the duties the constitution assigns it--to protect the country from enemies without and within and to protect our rights as citizens. That's ALL the constitution requires the gov't to do and it's the only two things it DOESN'T do! Oh, I could rant for hours about the mayhem and grief Arizona suffers but I'll spare you that. What we need is for the gov't to take its duties seriously.

In my point a view this bill should of been pass long before, it's a shame someone had to be murdered for it. I hope the bill do more good than harm and why's a lot of people in Arizona protesting over this bill?

So instead of the home of the brave now we are the home of the scared and spineless. Wow, our fore fathers must be proud.

Personally, I think that lawmakers and experts within the field of law enforcement have devised a way of spotting a possible illegal that goes beyond the bounds of simply "looking" or "sounding" like someone a few miles south. Thinking that a law like this is automatically racial profiling is thinking that cops are just going to go around harassing anyone who looks like they jumped the border. I believe we all need to give law enforcement officials more credit than this. Even if we disagree with the bill, we still shouldn't think of folks as reactionary racists wanting to throw every Mexican out of their state. If that was the case, cops would have been doing that already and would have long ate the consequences of "racial profiling." There are probably many more points of interest in a profile of an illegal immigrant. Places illegals have been known to gather; activities illegals engage in; various places they may seek employment; certain behavior markers; certain living areas and arrangements; etc. However, the backlash is inevitable. You cannot have ANY immigration enforcement strategy that wouldn't inconvenience some people. There's absolutely no way to handle it that wouldn't make some legal immigrants feel put out - and there's probably no way that a few legal immigrants or even American citizens wouldn't be questioned as to their citizenship in any scenario. There's a lot that goes into building a profile. "Race" plays a component. Yes. But to think that race is the deciding factor is to think that Arizona's powers that be are simply white racists with no real thought into this. This bill will probably be found to violate the Constitution. And on that basis, I agree it's wrong. But on the basis that folks are just going to be rounding up anyone who "looks" or "sounds" like they're illegal, I couldn't disagree more.