I have traveled to Europe, the Mideast and Asia, and you cannot enter any of the countries I have visited without showing your passport and you are required to carry it on your person at all times.
My wife and I were in Rome walking down a residential street when two plain-clothes police pulled up next to us, showed us their ID and asked for our papers. We produced them and were warned that we should not be in this area because it was frequented by Romanian drug dealers. We were happy for the warning and quickly left the area. I shudder to speculate what would have happened if we had no papers.
This is exactly what should happen to everyone who is a visitor to our country. Those who break in should be caught and prosecuted. Why is it any cause for concern? Illegal aliens are just that, illegal. Arizona’s new law is exactly like the federal law with one exception: Arizona is going to enforce it.
Isn’t it interesting that the law doesn’t go in to effect for months, yet all the uproar. A ruling by the 1st District Circuit Court of Appeals this year provides firm legal footing for Arizona’s law. In Estrada vs. Rhode Island, the court affirmed that the failure of an alien to possess alien registration documents represents probable cause for state or local police to arrest the person for a federal misdemeanor committed in the officer’s presence, or detain that person until the individual’s status can be verified.
Let’s enforce the law, or is there some other meaning to the word illegal?
Terry Tavares
Everett
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