If a very young looking person was partaking in the festivities at Marti Gras in New Orleans and was walking around drinking a beer like so many other thousands of people are doing, would it be “age discrimination” for a policeman to detain that person and demand to see some identification to verify that the person was not breaking the law by drinking under age? Wouldn’t the policeman have “reasonable suspicion” to believe the person is underage because this person appears to very young looking? Contrary to that, the Arizona law does not allow a policeman to just walk up to a person and demand to see immigration or citizenship papers. It is a “secondary” infraction meaning that the said person must first commit an infraction of the law in order to be detained where as the policeman can arbitrarily just walk up to someone in possession of alcohol and ask for ID to verify proper age to see if an infraction has occurred or not. People are saying that the Arizona law allows racial profiling and is discriminatory. Wouldn’t the above cited scenario be age discrimination and age profiling based on how young or old a person may look? The truth is, it’s a simple fact that 99.9% of all the estimated 496,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona come from south of the border. Regardless of what the politically correct crowd screams and whines about, that simple fact will not change by naming them differently such as calling them “undocumented workers”.
Drinking under the age of 21 is illegal just as entering the United States without going through the proper immigration process is also. So stop the crying and whining and stop the problem at the border. The Arizona law empowers authorities to actually do something about the problem. All states that have international borders should adopt similar legislation.
The underlying resentment about Arizona's new immigration law is that the people who oppose it actually desire these illegal immigrants to recieve amnesty and to have open borders, but this law is going in the other direction from that...towards where the majority of the American citizens want it to go. Round up and deport illegal immigrants and close the borders. Enough is enough already!
The following is NOT the new Arizona Law. It is EXISTING FEDERAL LAW THAT IS BEING IGNORED BY OUR PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS and the reason Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona hasn’t been indicted on federal discrimination laws. He is simply upholding FEDERAL law. Now he has STATE law to follow as well.
8 U.S.C. § 1325 : US Code - Section 1325: Improper entry by alien
(a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts:Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
(b) Improper time or place; civil penalties:
Any alien who is apprehended while entering (or attempting to enter) the United States at a time or place other than as designated by immigration officers shall be subject to a civil penalty of - (1) at least $50 and not more than $250 for each such entry (or attempted entry); or (2) twice the amount specified in paragraph (1) in the case of an alien who has been previously subject to a civil penalty under this subsection.
Civil penalties under this subsection are in addition to, and not in lieu of, any criminal or other civil penalties that may be imposed.
(c) Marriage fraud:Any individual who knowingly enters into a marriage for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or fined not more than $250,000, or both.
(d) Immigration-related entrepreneurship fraud:Any individual who knowingly establishes a commercial enterprise for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, fined in accordance with title 18, or both.
UPDATE: 2 May 2010
It is about time a news show other than Fox News reports the truth about the Arizona Immigration Bill!
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ReplyDeleteby stopdainsanity2
When I entered kindergarten – I was put into a class for the mentally retarded. Because my skin was brown my teacher assumed I did not speak English and required special bilingual support which was not available at the time. Yes – I was a Mexican-American citizen child AND I spoke English.
It literally took 2 weeks for my parents to force the school to place me in the mainstream kindergarten class — even though I could respond to questions in English. At the time if was easier for frustrated- overworked teachers (not bad people) to send me to the special needs class – no questions asked – based on my skin color. Although the error was corrected, as a child I never lost the feeling I was not welcomed and somehow my rights as a citizen were not equal to those of white americans. Be careful – children are watching.