Immigration law's broad wording has legal residents worried

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Source: Arizona Republic



Immigration law's broad wording has legal residents worried
by Alia Beard Rau - Jun. 13, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

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The law reaches beyond the questioning of illegal immigrants and casts a wide net over people who may come in contact with them as well, making many worry that they may inadvertently break the law.

Most of the talk concerns provisions in the law that make it a state crime to be in the country illegally, but the law also makes it a crime to stop your car in the road to hire a day laborer if it impedes traffic. It also makes it a crime to transport, harbor, conceal or shield an illegal immigrant if you do so while committing a separate criminal offense.
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(University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law professor Jack) Chin said maybe that was the point with SB 1070. The intent was "attrition through enforcement," to deter illegal immigrants.

"This is not a statute that was designed to give people the ability to read it and figure out what's permitted and what's not," Chin said. "No clear rules means that people who want to be safe basically have to have no contact with undocumented people."


Read more:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2010/06/13/20100613immigration-law-wording.html

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Interesting discussion here of the less well-known provisions of the law and their effects.

[dkf]

1. If employment laws were strictly enforced isn't this the expected outcome?

Obviously if there were no possible income for illegal immigrants there is no incentive to come. I would like to know what the solution to stopping illegal immigration is if not this. My take is those who don't want to enforce laws like this aren't interested in stopping it either.

[UTUSN]

2. K&R #1 n/t