If you don't look as though your ancestors came from Heidelberg, you might want to avoid traveling through Arizona. For if you have a hint of brown in your skin tone, the cops may yank you over and make you prove that you are not an illegal alien of some kind.
Yes, it's true. Walking While Hispanic will soon be probable cause in Arizona for the cops to jack your ass up, prone you out on the pavement and hold you there for as long as it takes them to satisfy themselves that you are not here illegally.
So unless you look as though you could have stepped right off of a recruiting poster for either the SA or the Bund Deutscher Mädchen, then if you have the misfortune to live or be passing through Arizona, you may want to obtain a passport (or a passport card) and carry it with you at all times.
And if you are thinking about retiring to Arizona, I respectfully suggest that you reconsider.
And if you are Hispanic and if you are ever inclined to vote for a Republican, then you may want to refresh your recollection as to the political affiliation of the politicians pushing the "Stop and Question Brown People" law. {Psst! They're Republicans.}
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It would be interesting to see how the inevitable lawsuit is going to be. My money is that SCOTUS legislates from the bench.
This may be new on the state level, but not the Federal. The Border Patrol has been operating checkpoints in the Southwest for years. I've always gotten the "blue-eyes wave through" whenever I approach.
Fun fact to know and tell: the majority of undocumented aliens in the US arrived by plane. But a lot of them got blue eyes, too, so I guess they don't really count.
Damn activist judges!
Am I overreaching, or is this suggestive to anyone else of the pre-Emancipation South where unfamiliar blacks were presumed to be escaped slaves unless they could prove otherwise?
Profiling of Hispanics and deportation of any Hispanics who don't happen to be carrying proof of citizenship upon them has been a problem for at least 27 years....
But yeah, if this isn't a reason to avoid Arizona, how's this: Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Most famous for his deputies murdering several handicapped people by depriving them of insulin or other medical necessities, who pays out millions per year in settlements to the survivors of prisoners that his deputies kill, most of whom were never convicted of any crime other than lacking the money to make bail.
- Badtux the Reminiscing Penguin
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