Muscatine

A lot of people seem to be up and arms about this bill, that it will trample civil rights.  How can that be?  I don't understand it.  (I am a self proffessed moron you know)  The only rights it will be trampling are the lawbreakers.  If the police come up to me on the street and say I wasnt to see some ID, I show it to them.  If they knock on my door and say we want to search your house, I say come on in, excuse the mess.  Because I have nothing to hide.  I live within the confines of the law.  I have done nothing wrong so therefore have nothing to hide.  And that is true for everyone who lives within the confines of the law.  The only ones negitively affected are the ones living outside of the law, say undocumented people who can not produce ID.  They are breaking the law so how are their civil rights being violated?  I think this is a brilliant law and should be everywhere.  Yes, I agree the courts will probably strike it down, but why?  Can anyone explain?

Ya know, Opie...it would be interesting to know just how many illegals are/have been arrested by our local law enforcement as illegals, in any given year, and then processed out of the country.

Last I had heard from rumor mills....it was not worth the time, paperwork effort, and red tape to mess with it, so very few arrests are made around here.

BB, you forgot to...

Immagration = immigration

Proffessed  = professed

Wasnt = want

What is good for the goose is good for all the geese.

But you do bring up a very good point.  I have often wondered how many undocumented we have around our community.  I imagine a small town like this would be the perfect place to live.  The police are having fiscal problems and very few resources to put to immigration enforcement.  There is a large Hispanic population to get lost in.  I would guess the numbers are higher than we would like to admit. 

Another thing I hear people crying about is that this law will bring about a lot of profiling.  What is profiling except for a tool to use to keep us safe.  How is that wrong?  I am not saying that all Hispanic people are undocumented but in our community, and obviously in the case of Arizona the rate of undocumented people are of Hispanic decent.  That being a fact why shouldn't police be allowed to ask Hispanic people for ID? 

If there was a serial killer in Muscatine and FBI profilers said he was a tall, fat white man, in his fifties, with a goofy moustache and very ugly, I would get stopped every ten minutes.  But each time I would comply with the officer and show my ID.  Why?  Because he is doing his job to keep me and my family, and your family safe.  He is doing what he is suppose to be doing.  He is keeping us safe.  How did he come upon thinking I was the killer?  I fit the description (So do a lot of you by the way) so is that profiling?  Is it wrong?  I don't think so.  I see profiling as another tool to use to keep us safe from the bad guys.

Jeff....your post was extremely well written and should be required reading for every knucklehead politician who is trying to be "correct" by opposing this new law.  The only positive here that I see is a continually growing sentiment that the government needs to keep its nose out of state business, your business, and my business.