What fewer people have noticed is the phrase "lawful contact," which defines what must be going on before police even think about checking immigration status. "That means the officer is already engaged in some detention of an individual because he's violated some other law," says Kris Kobach, a University of Missouri Kansas City Law School professor who helped draft the measure. "The most likely context where this law would come into play is a traffic stop."
As far as "reasonable suspicion" is concerned, there is a great deal of case law dealing with the idea, but in immigration matters, it means a combination of circumstances that, taken together, cause the officer to suspect lawbreaking. It's not race -- Arizona's new law specifically says race and ethnicity cannot be the sole factors in determining a reasonable suspicion. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Byron-York/A-carefully-crafted-immigration-law-in-Arizona-92136104.html#ixzz0mLo6mGvu On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > So will the Police only be pulling spanish looking people over and asking > for "Der Papers, HEIL!" > or will it be all non whites? > > Anyone non-whites plan to vacation in Arizona anytime soon? > > "I'm not going back to Arizona as long as it remains a police state, which > is what the appalling anti-immigrant bill that Gov. Jan Brewer signed into > law last week has turned it into. > > > What would Arizona's revered libertarian icon, Barry Goldwater, say about a > law that requires the police to demand proof of legal residency from any > person with whom they have made "any lawful contact" and about whom they > have "reasonable suspicion" that "the person is an alien who is unlawfully > present in the United States?" Wasn't the system of internal passports one > of the most distasteful features of life in the Soviet Union and > apartheid-era South Africa?" > > That's from a silly Pulitzer prize winning journalist author. > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/27/linda-greenhouse-arizona_n_553351.html > > "SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS!!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:316793 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
