Response to Response to AZ Immigration Law

In response to My Texas Blog: Response to AZ Immigration Law

A few points -

"If you aren't illegal you should have nothing to hide" - So do you feel the Police should have the right to search you, your property, or monitor your phone calls and internet activities? Because if you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to hide? Where do you draw the line?

"If I were to leave the country I would need to have my "papers" on me, big deal, so how is this any different?" - It's different because the people being asked to carry papers are citizens, not visitors. You are assumed guilty until proven innocent.

"Legislators' knew people would immediately bring up race so it's already been built into the bill that a person cannot be questioned based on race." - Do you think an Anglo is going to have their citizenship questioned? Of course not, so therefore they won't be required to carry around citizenship papers. The law is going to require racial profiling by it's very nature.

"Americans have fought for every right we have, and Obama wants to give these rights to people who are bankrupting our schools, hospitals, prisons, and our welfare system." - The rights that Americans have fought for are not rights exclusive to American citizens. To quote Thomas Jefferson "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights...[insert Declaration of Independence & Bill of Rights]"