re: #59 Aceofwhat?

It’s not a license to go harass “brown people”, but it’s close. As it stands, Phoenix police can refer criminal suspects to the ICE when warranted.

Now, all state police have more authority to make citizenship/identification inquiries and judgments, and they only need to be involved in ‘regular contact’ to do so.

Regular police contact is basically any other reason for them to be asking for your ID and getting involved in your situation (broken taillight, etc.).

The perception is worse than reality, but the reality ain’t great and the perception is both highly damaging and highly predictable.

It’s incredibly clumsy and unhelpful, IMHO, at best…and license to profile at worst.

That mirrors my take on this. It’s easy to manufacture a reason to have official contact. I was once pulled over for failing to make a right-turn signal from a “right-turn only” lane.

So I think a bad cop could abuse this. But that’s the case with most laws.

I just don’t see the justification for the over-the-top rhetoric. For instance, Archbishop Mahoney says this is “the country’s most retrogressive, mean-spirited and useless anti-immigrant law” and wonders whether Arizonans are “now reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques”.