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Can't.
The law doesn't permit random sampling of the population based on "looks like an Invader". It requires that the police stop people for suspicion of some other offense and then requires the officer to check residency status, if he suspects this additional crime to have been committed.
Since, however, the USSC has stated that blanket random road "checkpoints" for DUI and seatbelt usage do not violate the FOURTH Amendment, then it goes to follow that random routine road checkpoints for violation of other state laws cannot be a violation of that same Amendment.
BTW, you could try reading your constitution someday. I mean, if you're going to argue some law or other violates an amendment, shouldn't you at least pick a number of an Amendment that might pertain to what it is you're wishing it violated, but doesn't?
"Lawful contact", in essence, the suspect has to be suspected, with reasonable suspicion, of committing some other offense.
Suddenly you people have a problem with the police apprehending criminals? Its that why you keep sending the same criminals to Washington every year, and not, as I once suspected, you desired to get them out of your own neighborhoods?
Way to talk around the Q on this. Here is the question that exposes this law for what it is:
What is going to constitute reasonable suspicion that a police officer knows what someone is or is not carrying in his wallet.
Answer that one, my friend, and you have just become Karnak the Magnificent. On the other hand, if you are a mere mortal, like the rest of us, the only answer that you can give is "Because he looks brown". This includes not only illegal aliens, but Hispanics who were born right here in the good ole' USA. That constitutes racial profiling. If you say I am full of crap here, then answer this second question:
How many white people are going to be stopped and thrown in jail for not carrying papers?
The answer for anyone whose IQ is higher than that of an artichoke is "NONE". Therefore, the law is racist.
One other question:
How has Arizona dealt with illegal aliens in the past?
By turning them over to Immigration, who deported them. But the new law says that they have to be put into places, for a length of time, and taken care of before being deported. Who pays for that? Arizona's taxpayers, of course. So not only are Arizona's lawmakers complete idiots for passing a bill that will be struck down by SCOTUS as racist, but they are also complete idiots for passing a bill that can only be enforced by raising taxes. In short - Arizona's lawmakers are complete idiots.
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