Arizona immigration law....

[BanginJimmy]

You must have misunderstood me. It makes it so racist cops have a defense for harassing latinos.

But if they want to do that they already can. Nothing changes in that respect. The only difference is the penalty is more severe for their crimes.

It has to do with commerce because an illegal workforce will have a huge impact on wages and prices nationally.

This contradicts your own argument that you make later about agreeing with checking status when applying for employment. That also has to do with commerce and in that case it isnt even someone sworn to uphold the law doing the checks.

Why do you think the government can make growing your own weed illegal even for personal use?

For the same reason its illegal to cook your own meth, the final product is illegal in all 50 states. This is a Blender like statement and I was sure you were more intelligent than he is.

I already explained why it impedes the feds from enforcing the immigration law IN THE WAY THEY SEE FIT.

Considering the feds are making absolutely no attempt to enforce the law it has forced states, az being the first, but not the last, to do it for them. Again, you cannot find a single piece of this law that impedes the feds from enforcing their own laws. This law simply does what the feds should be doing themselves.

I don't know why being against the words of one law means someone is against securing our border.

If you are against police enforcing the laws concerning the security of our border then you are against securing the border, it really is that simple. If that is not the case then I would love to hear how you think we should secure the border without enforcing any of the laws designed to help secure it.

I am all for checking status when applying for jobs or in many other cases where all people are treated equally. I would even be more supportive of this law if it just said that police had to check every person they pulled over.

So you are all for wasting time and resources on people that are obviously not the criminals you are looking for in order to appease the criminals and those that support their behavior? That is quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Also by your own reasoning, only the fed govt should be able to do that. How can you even attempt to make an argument that businesses should have access to and be able to make use of that info, but police cannot?

The VAST majority of the problem on the US/Mexico border is latino illegals. Quit letting political correctness get in the way of common sense and simply admit it. From there you can just as easily admit that if you do specificly target illegals then you will arrest a disproportionate about of latinos compared to other races. That is not racism like you liberals want to assume. That is simply using common sense to combat a problem.