Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what Arizona state representatives are thinking when they make laws like the recent immigration law. Don’t they have anything better to do? Maybe they should put a little more effort into protecting consumers from dangerous Chinese drywall and the resulting Chinese drywall lawsuits instead of making life difficult for upstanding citizens and tourists.
If you were fortunate (or maybe unfortunate) enough to have experienced 1935 Nazi Germany or the USSR in the 1970’s you know that these types of laws will severely curtail the rights of normal citizens. Everyone in those countries had to be prepared to display their papers instantly or they could be dragged away to jail.
Will a soccer mom of African descent be required to carry her US passport at all times or risk being sent to jail? Will innocent tourists who forget their papers in their hotel room be held in solitary confinement?
Not exactly the type of place I want to raise my kids. Upstanding US citizens will have to worry at all times about special agents trying to catch you and send you away for no good reason. Sounds very familiar to people who lived through previous regimes as mentioned above.
So you dismiss these claims as nonsense and extreme examples? Hmmm… tell that to the holocaust survivors who lived in Germany during the years leading up to that period in time. That’s what everyone said in 1935 as well.
If the intent of the Arizona Immigration Law is to curtail illegal immigration it definitely isn’t the way to achieve any meaningful results. In the meantime everyone’s rights and civil liberties get trampled and our country degenerates into a cesspool of racism and meanness.
Of course some of the details are different in the Arizona law. But if you can’t look past the details and see the big picture then those details are sure to be included in the next offensive law.
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