"My mom says that Barack Obama is taking away everybody that doesn't have papers," Daisy told the U.S. first lady on May 19 at the New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

"Well, that's something that we have to work on, right, to make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers," Michelle Obama replied.

"But my mom doesn't have papers," said Daisy, a U.S. citizen by virtue of her birth.

"I'm really proud that a young girl of Peruvian origin is highlighting the enormous problem with Latin American immigration in the United States," President Alan Garcia told reporters last week.

He said it would be scandalous if her parents were deported.

"Do you know how much President Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama would stand to lose?" he said. Garcia called the Arizona law a "completely irrational response" to the illegal-immigration question, and said he would express his thoughts on the matter to President Obama during his visit to Washington.

How is enforcing the law scandalous again? Showing favoritism in this single case/not enforcing it would be worse.

How is enforcing the law scandalous again? Showing favoritism in this single case/not enforcing it would be worse.

He was detained for 4 hours while his wife drove to get his birth certificate before he was released.

That's the kind of shit that is just wrong.

I have no problem with law enforcement detaining anyone in the country illegally.

I have a problem with US citizens being stopped, providing proof of citizenship, yet STILL being detained until they can provide a birth certificate.

It's already happened. An Arizona resident born in Fresno stopped at a weigh station with his truck. He was questioned, and provided his Arizona issued CDL and SSN.

He was detained for 4 hours while his wife drove to get his birth certificate before he was released.

That's the kind of shit that is just wrong.

Now, to be fair, they have cleaned up the original text of the law to try and restrict some of the potential abuses, and have added in language to go after the folks hiring illegals for day work. Those are good steps.

If they go after the illegals, and don't harass US citizens unnecessarily, won't hear a peep from me.

If a beat cop sees a Latino who he thinks isn't here with legit papers, he can just go up to him and demand to see his papers.

You know what? I like profiling.
It would save a lot of damn time at the airport.

We've got a problem with Muslims blowing shit up, it's reasonable to profile for Muslims.
We have a rash of Hispanic people flooding across the southern border illegally, it's reasonable to question Hispanics over citizenship.
That's not racism, it's common sense.

The problem with the law is that it's supposed to promote racial profiling. If a beat cop sees a Latino who he thinks isn't here with legit papers, he can just go up to him and demand to see his papers.

And you're right, it would be worse to show favoritism here.

That is not true.

Not even normal "police contact" is enough to ask for proof of citizenship.

They would have to be stopped or questioned for something else...like a traffic ticket and then, there would have to be some other evidence on top of that, like the inability to produce a drivers license, to inquire about their status.

You know what? I like profiling.
It would save a lot of damn time at the airport.

We've got a problem with Muslims blowing shit up, it's reasonable to profile for Muslims.
We have a rash of Hispanic people flooding across the southern border illegally, it's reasonable to question Hispanics over citizenship.
That's not racism, it's common sense.

Arizona didn't make this law for fun and sport, they made it because the Federal government won't do its job because the pansies in charge don't want to lose a voting block (both parties).

Id like to see that part of the law where it says that please. It was my understand... and my teachers (who is also a lawyer) that the only time that this law is in affect is when the police officers are doing their normal routes and pulls someone over and find they are illegal. Does racial profiling happen... yes... but im certain the law does not state "if they look illegal, pull them over and find out"

The initial wording of the law stated that officers were required to ask anyone who might be illegal for proof of citizenship, even if it wasn't in the course of a traffic stop or anything like that.

It was since been revised to reflect that they must only consider citizenship if they had a legitimate reason to be questioning someone.

Not only do they need a legitimate reason to be questioning someone, they need a legitimate reason to bring up immigration status on top of that.
Suspecting illegal status isn't a reason to engage a person at all.

I don't know...I see this whole thing as a complete non-issue.
If they were illegal before, they're still illegal. This law just gives Arizona police the ability to enforce an existing law the Federal government can't, isn't or won't enforce.

Hell, a majority of Californians (50% to 43%) support the Arizona law.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/31 ... l-20100531
We're not exactly a bunch of backwoods xenophobic rednecks around here.