Weird analogy, because you're telling him, rather than him witnessing it.. As far as I know, witnessing a crime and not reporting it is in itself illegal...
But that's not my point.. This Arizona law, is just another band-aid that sooner or later will be found either unconstitutional or flat illegal. We've yet to deal with the main issues. 1) How do we prevent these people from coming in illegally in the first place. We don't build walls, there's an episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit that uses the plans for the wall, and it's breached in under five minutes. We use technology to survey the border and turn the border patrol into a paramilitary rapid reaction force. 2) Secondly, we deal with the base problem, poverty in Mexico, we help Mexico do what it needs to do to provide a job with a decent wage for these people in their own country. 3) it's impossible to round up and deport all 12 million illegals in the US, so we give them a simple option, you want citizenship, join the military. If you're in the country illegally and you get picked up for anything.. including a speeding ticket you're out. The checks are done by the the prison system and/or the precinct office. Takes the immigration checks out of the hands of the cop on the street. If you're arrested and found to be illegal, the penalties are tacked on to your sentence and then you're deported. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 7:45 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Closing the border On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Jerry Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I DO believe, if the dog catcher is told be me at the door "yes, I brought > that dog over the border yesterday when I came here illegally", the dog > catcher now has a duty to tell someone. > > Do I like that personally? No. It is too KGB/everyone reporting on everyone > to me. Let's see how this works with other crimes: If the dog catcher is told by me that I id nto report a large amount of my income on my income taxes, is it OK for him to report it? If the dog catcher is told by me that I embezzled millions of dollars from my company, is it OK for him to report it? If the dog catcher is told by me that I am growing poppy plants in my basement for my own personal heroine use, is it OK for him to report it? If the dog catcher is told by me that I regularly beat my kids to keep them in line, is it OK for him to report it? If the dog catcher is told by me that I killed a person, is it OK for him to report it? In New Jersey (and I imagine other states) many people (teachers, nurses, doctors, EMS workers, social workers, etc) are required required, by law, to report SUSPECTED child abuse. Once reported, someone from the state or local child services office investigates the incident. Would the same not be true for immigration status, or do people really envision the dog catcher rounding up illegal immigrants and bringing them to jail themselves? -- Scott Stroz --------------- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316787 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
