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Originally Posted by ;362054
Muzaffar A. Christi, a lawyer and policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington, said Arizona would be the first state to allow the local police to determine a person’s immigration status based solely on their “reasonable suspicion” that they were in the country illegally. No other state, he added, makes it a state crime not to carry an alien registration card or other immigration document, though federal law requires legal immigrants to do so.
He said the Arizona law could face legal challenges. “How can you ‘reasonably believe’ someone is an undocumented immigrant if you are a local cop?” he said. “Federal agents have training on that, but local cops don’t know that.”
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I'm curious what "training" federal agents receive on this. Developing a reasonable belief based on someone looking foreign and having an accent isn't exactly rigorous scrutiny. Either way the documentation requirement is already federal law, though one the feds don't seem particularly interested in enforcing. If Arizona wants to make it state law and actually enforce it I'm not particularly bothered.