I have no problem with immigration laws being enforced. Someone can only be deported once his/her status is brought to law enforcement's attention. The problem I have is how my status is brought to le's attention. Now if I get arrested for committing a crime and my id is run and it comes to light that I'm here illegally then ok they got me fair and square.
And, by the way, I'm a U.S. citizen.
Originally Posted by Tony Montana
The problem with "this discussion" is that neither you nor President Obama can point to one REAL circumstance in which THE SHERIFF (or his deputies) have
..... stopped someone who was "driving/walking to" his "local quickie mart to buy a lottery ticket and" as "stopped and questioned simply because of the way" that someone looks!
or taking their kids for an ice cream
buying shrimp in Florida
or whatever.
"You all" (which means you and like minded persons e.g. Obaminable) create these scenarios in an extreme case to justify your outrage and opposition .... fictitiously generating attitudes in cops that portray them as a racially motivated lynch mob who cruise around the country looking for just any dark complexioned person to stop, jack up, and take to jail... just because the person has a dark complexion.
It makes good bullshit to keep up the hate against "white cops" ... (and I assume that you do not believe that "cops" with dark complexions DO NOT "cruise around the country looking for just any dark complexioned person to stop, jack up, and take to jail... just because the person has a dark complexion," because if you DO BELIEVE THAT then is it RACIALLY MOTIVATED?).
Please do not be so egotistical and self-centered to believe that "the cops" are looking for you, because you have a dark complexion....comb your hair back, have a nice car, date hot ladies, make more money than they do, blah, blah, blah. Pssstt..... THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR YOU!
And neither is THE SHERIFF.
I am a U.S. citizen also.
I carry "papers" when I travel in this country, and outside this country.
And when I have been asked for my "papers" in a country in which my skin color distinguishes me from the folks living in that country, I show the officer my papers, so that the officer will know that I am there legitimately and I have answered the "officer's" questions honestly and politely in order that I might enjoy the remainder of my trip without necessity of pain medication and/or stitches...... after being relieved of every friggin piece of clothing, money, equipment, and thing of apparent value to compensate the "officer" for the low income he receives to kick my ass.
And when in this country traveling if an officer stops me to ask me for my "papers" because I have Texas license plates on the vehicle I am driving then I also politely show him my "papers" and answer his questions honestly without getting an attitude or being a smart ass, arrogant, stupid, ass hole who is insisting that he is violating my constitutional rights as a U.S. citizen and a Texan to freely travel about the country. I do those things, because I realize that I have no .. NO ... legal justification to shoot a cop because he wrongly asks me to show my "papers" to identify myself as having the PRIVILEGE of moving about the country.... and passing through HIS jurisdiction.