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Peter P asked ...Also, I believe the current law requires all non-citizens to carry proof of legal status at all times."

This is true ... it is the law that you must present legal ID citizen an non citizen allike when asked by a peace officer or officer of the law. If you have no ID you can be arrested. Im sure glad the law lilke this is on the books. Its been around for a very long time.

No, I don't think so Space Ace. As hard as he has tried, Bush has not yet completely repealed the 4th Amendment, though it is practically a dead letter at this point.

There is no way that a peace officer can demand ID from a citizen who is not breaking any laws, or under suspicion of breaking any laws. Of course, as a practical manner, a cop can always lie and claim that you looked like a suspect. In that case, you probably have to "prove" your innocence and produce ID or spend the night in jail.

This is true … it is the law that you must present legal ID citizen an non citizen allike when asked by a peace officer or officer of the law. If you have no ID you can be arrested. Im sure glad the law lilke this is on the books. Its been around for a very long time.

This is actually not true. It is the law that you must answer the question 'who are you' (recent supreme court case) but not that you have to carry ID around. That is not the law. When driving you must carry a driver's license and present it to a peace officer if asked.

"Enough “white people” from America in WWII saved millions of people from death in Nazi and Japanese concentration camps, and basically liberated half the world from sure death and tyranny. But that probably doesn’t mean sh-t to you."

Yeah, and Nazi POWs brought back during the war had more freedoms to go into businesses and theaters than American blacks did.
Michael, why don't you try relating to how others have it and maybe you won't look like such a dork.

He can’t be bothered to verify the legal status of people he hires but would like to keep illegal immigration in check, so we’re back to punishing taxes for everybody and crappy enforcement via the second or third best solution — incidentally a solution that encourages police/employer abuse against fairly desperate people.

You're just trying to portray me to your convenience without understanding anything I say. It is your notion of living in a police state that creates the crappy environment. I'd rather have them stay than to see checkpoints, and even more class separation. You don't mind the cheap produce, you just want to pretend you are passionate about a popular issue. Big deal.

"Be a little more balanced and not so self-hating and neurotically filled with false liberal feeling of guilt for “social injustices” you never, and I never, committed."

People like you continually comit social injustices.

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