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You can't restrict the demand to produce papers to undocumented immigrants
So they restrict it to people who are suspected of being illegal immigrants, where there is a "reasonable suspicion" (which is obviously somewhat subjective, but there is a lot of case law on this issue, reasonably suspicion has to actually have a real reason, and it can't just be race, both according to this law and other laws and cases). I wouldn't push for such a law, but I'm going to wait to see how it works in practice before I actually condemn it.
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.
OK than you should push for the repeal of the federal law that requires this of all non-citizens in the US.
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.
That has some of its own problems, but it might make more sense.
If it wasn't for the the huge level of illegal immigration and the fact that total non-enforcement would presumably make that level noticeably larger, I might just suggest not enforcing the law here, or perhaps instead enforcing the law, but making legally getting in to the US so easy that there isn't much reason for people to violate it. In theory, in pure abstract principle, I'd go for something like that. I'm just not sure how well it works in practice. |
