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And as one of those who live in Arizona, I approve of SR1070. Obama, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson are liberals who, would like everyone to do as they say, not as they do.

But to go over a few points;

It is unfair to demand that aliens carry their documents with them. WRONG

It is true that the Arizona law makes it a misdemeanor for an alien to fail to carry certain documents. “Now, suddenly, if you don’t have your papers ... you’re going to be harassed,” the president said. “That’s not the right way to go.” But since 1940, it has been a federal crime for aliens to fail to keep such registration documents with them. The Arizona law simply adds a state penalty to what was already a federal crime. Moreover, as anyone who has traveled abroad knows, other nations have similar documentation requirements.

“Reasonable suspicion” is a meaningless term that will permit police misconduct. WRONG

Over the past four decades, federal courts have issued hundreds of opinions defining those two words. The Arizona law didn’t invent the concept: Precedents list the factors that can contribute to reasonable suspicion; when several are combined, the “totality of circumstances” that results may create reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed.

Arizona law is most likely to come into play after a traffic stop. A police officer pulls a minivan over for speeding. A dozen passengers are crammed in. None has identification. The highway is a known alien-smuggling corridor. The driver is acting evasively. Those factors combine to create reasonable suspicion that the occupants are not in the country legally.

The law will allow police to engage in racial profiling. WRONG

Actually, Section 2 provides that a law enforcement official “may not solely consider race, color or national origin” in making any stops or determining immigration status. In addition, all normal Fourth Amendment protections against profiling will continue to apply. In fact, the Arizona law actually reduces the likelihood of race-based harassment by compelling police officers to contact the federal government as soon as is practicable when they suspect a person is an illegal alien, as opposed to letting them make arrests on their own assessment.

It is unfair to demand that people carry a driver’s license. HUH?? DEFINITELY WRONG!!

Arizona’s law does not require anyone, alien or otherwise, to carry a driver’s license. Rather, it gives any alien with a license a free pass if his immigration status is in doubt. Because Arizona allows only lawful residents to obtain licenses, an officer must presume that someone who produces one is legally in the country.

State governments aren’t allowed to get involved in immigration, which is a federal matter.

While it is true that Washington holds primary authority in immigration, the Supreme Court since 1976 has recognized that states may enact laws to discourage illegal immigration without being pre-empted by federal law. As long as Congress hasn’t expressly forbidden the state law in question, the statute doesn’t conflict with federal law and Congress has not displaced all state laws from the field, it is permitted.

That’s why Arizona’s 2007 law making it illegal to knowingly employ unauthorized aliens was sustained by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

In sum, the Arizona law hardly creates a police state. It takes a measured, reasonable step to give Arizona police officers another tool when they come into contact with illegal aliens during their normal law enforcement duties.

And it’s very necessary: Arizona is the ground zero of illegal immigration. Phoenix is the hub of human smuggling and the kidnapping capital of America, with more than 240 incidents reported in 2008. America protects the borders of other nations better than it protects our own border. It's time for all American border states pass laws to protect their borders, since the government is going to do anything.

Bob

Hello Brother Bob,

As you already know, I'm all for all states enacting tough laws to eliminate illegal immigration. They all get deported. Federal agencies not doing their jobs need massive numbers of criminal charges filed against them and/or in and all civil remedies - certainly including being fired and prohibited for life in ever working for a government agency again. If the Federal government can't or won't do the job - send them all home and cut the Federal government completely out of the loop. I'm talking about shutting down Washington, D.C. as useless and reforming a Federal substitute under STRICT Constitutional requirements. I'm talking about the FOUNDER'S Way and getting the Federal government's nose out of just about everything except National Defense, border control and interstate law enforcement functions, diplomacy with foreign countries, and the extremely limited role the Federal government was originally set up in. All other rights and duties were reserved for the States, and the Federal government is the servant of the States. The current Federal government has grown to be an overbearing TYRANT that is impossible to tolerate for a free people. We ARE DETERMINED to remain a free people, regardless of the pie-in-the-sky plans of Washington, D.C. The current conditions can't continue for long without States seceding from the Union and telling Washington, D.C. to go fly a kite. The vast majority of the public will NOT TOLERATE the current course much longer. It's back to civics 101:  (1) The PEOPLE are the BOSS;  (2) The STATES are the servants of the PEOPLE;  (3) The federal government is LAST as a SERVANT to the STATES. This is the structure of OUR REPUBLIC.