SB 1611 was introduced yesterday and will be heard today in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Your sister needs a kidney transplant, no emergency; Russell Pearce wants to demogogue against immigrants, red alert, priority A-1.
Among its provisions are to force schools, public or private, to check the immigration status of incoming students. Schools, as we know, have plenty of employees that can be tasked with this.
By the way, this will not lead to racial profiling. Why? Because Pearce says so.
By the way, this part of the bill affects home schoolers too. That’s right, parents who are home schooling their kids are not exempt from this. I’ll give you a minute to wrap your head around that one.
The bill also authorizes law enforcement to confiscate license plates and registration cards of vehicles if they have “reasonable cause” to think it is being driven by a non-citizen. This will not lead to racial profiling, because they say so.
There is a whole raft of other provisions. None of which will lead to racial profiling, I’m sure.
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You lost the argument when you attacked Russell Pearce personally.
This is easily the most hateful, mean-spirited thing I have ever read. Where is the civility?
That wasn’t an attack. The bill is.
See? Georgia is already attacking some guy named Bill! I join ‘tard in lamenting the rapid descent back to incivility in our discourse.
I think it’s Bill Clinton’s turn to hold the discourse this week.
In your opinion, everything leads to “racial profiling”. We don’t need the courts anymore, we have Ted.
I’m sorry, you’re right, Walt. I’m sure that a blonde of Norwegian descent stands just as much chance of being asked for papers as someone of Mexican descent.
The bill basically makes it is a DUI type offense to be in this state and forget your proof of citizenship at home.
Which…1. burden shifts, no one in this country has to carry proof they are a citizen. That is requiring a defendant provide proof of innocence and making it a jail-able offense to refuse to do so. 2. Causes a huge burden on the public defenders because most of the people charged with this will be poor and they have a legal right to a PD under US law. 3. If ICE is unable to determine citizenship right away, LE has only two options-hand over to ICE or hold the defendant until such determination is made…there are many many more problems with this particular section but those are the three most glaring.
There is a difference between racial profiling and common sense. Should the Border Patrol ask someone who doesn’t speak English, but say Spanish, Russian or Arabic only, if they have a passport?
Should law enforcement, be able to ask someone they lawfully stop, if they have a Visa or Passport if they don’t speak english?
Are we losing track of common sense?
Border Patrol has limits on when they can demand those documents-it is not a free for all and to use that argument is dishonest.