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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Did you know that a driver's license is adequate to prove residency? No, obviously you did not. Instead, you jumped to the conclusion that the cops in Arizona are racists.
Tell me, how long have you been in favor of breaking the law instead of enforcing it?
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Then let's change things up a bit, a bunch of teenagers are standing around somewhere. They're dressed funny and listening to that stuff that passes for music. They're not speaking English because if my time in highschool was any indication it's wrong to use a language a passing person might understand so if you know another one, speak it whenever you can.
Then there's a lawful police encounter. I have those all the time, a cop drives up or walks up asks you if everything's okay often asks your name. This time they say papers please citizen. Since you're not required to carry ID and someone under 18 might not even have one to carry any of those kids with bown skin now has to worry about being detained even though they've broken no laws.
I'm also going to agree with the idea that no person can be illegal. The whole idea makes me really uncomfortable and the term suggests that such people are somehow less than the rest of us. They may very well have done something illegal but calling the person illegal has very uncomfortable civil rights implications in my mind. Law breakers still retain the basic rights of personhood.