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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (17380)4/27/2010 3:13:30 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (5) of 42652
 
In a sense they are just stepping up enforcement of the existing law.

It's not the law that's the problem, it's the practical enforcement of the law. You can't restrict the demand to produce papers to undocumented immigrants. If you could, then there would be no issue. But that is not feasible. If you knew before asking for ID who was legal and who wasn't, then you wouldn't need to ask. The reason you ask for the papers is to determine who is who. So in the process of enforcing the law, lots of citizens and legal immigrants, who should not be subjected to that, will have to produce their papers and that's the problem.

I'm not so sure I want more enforcement of the immigration laws, but if we are going to take them really seriously, it might be that something like this is needed.

The extant federal law that needs to be enforced is the one that makes it illegal to hire someone without verified documents, seems to me.

Still not sure I like it, but its not the monstrosity that some seem to be making out of it.

I've seen it exaggerated, that's for sure. So what else is new. But I'm still troubled by the idea of having to carry papers to prove you're legal in case you happen to end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's the principle.
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