re: #416 goddamnedfrank

It’s been the law in Arizona for “some time” that everyone must travel with a birth certificate, and can be cuffed and given to ICE after breaking no law, based soley on a police officer’s suspicions, which can be partially but not primarily based on race? Exactly which law are you referring to?

On May 21, [2008] officers were given the authority to question criminal suspects about their citizenship status and contact federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents if they suspect a suspect is in the United States illegally.

Since then, Spencer said, “Stolen vehicles have gone down 29 percent. That’s a double-digit increase. Another thing that’s gone down, which is quite unusual, our priority one or emergency calls for service, have decreased 10 percent.”

“We’re connecting this decrease with the implementation of the immigration policies and the (employer sanctions) legislation that took effect in January,” he said. “So we think it is having a deterrent effect. Now, you add our new and improved policy which allows our officers to contact ICE…”
[Link: ktar.com…]

Will you fucking quit calling me a liar now, asshole?