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Originally Posted by will76
I don't see what is wrong with them carrying their "papers" on them. Really what is the big deal. We are all suppose to carry our government issued IDS / Drivers licenses at all times. So they have to carry an extra piece of paper. Big fucking deal. I am not crying because I have to carry my license on me legally. If I lived in an area where I need additional documents because I fit the profile STATISTICS could back up for a demographic that was causing harm to me and the rest of the area, I would carry t he additional documents required. I doubt we are talking about docs that they would need to a brief case to carry it around. It's prolly 1 page, fold it up, put it behind your license / id. End of story, oh and please be fucking happy to be here and stop bitching about having to carry an extra piece of paper. thanks. enjoy your stay.
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In theory it is something that is easy to comply with and not a huge inconvenience in your life. And, if I go on vacation to a foreign country I always make sure that I have my passport on me at all times so you would think legal immigrants here would see that as a similar situation.
Here is where I kind of have an issue with it.
For starters you aren't required by law to have ID on you unless you are doing something that requires it. If I go for a walk down the street, I don't have to take ID with me. It might be a good idea in case something happens to me and I get hit by a car or something, they can identify me, but it isn't illegal for me to go for a walk without my ID. This law could make that so if I were a legal immigrant. Say for example the police get a call that someone just stole a cell phone out of car. They give a description and there is a cop right in the general area. He drives around and sees me walking down the street and I happen to kind of look like I might fit the description of the suspect. So he stops me. If I have forgotten my papers at home I am now guilty of committing a crime. Realistically, I will end up showing them my papers and charges will either be dropped or never filed, but it could be a major pain in my ass and there could be cops/DA's/Judges that decide to make a point and up fining this person or fucking them over so they serve as an example. It really bothers me to think something like that could happen to someone just because they didn't happen to have their papers on them.
Moreover it is the general implication of what this means. Things like this can be a slippery slope. It starts with legal immigrants then pretty soon everyone has to have some kind of special ID showing that they are legal. That is a big step, that is how things sometimes end up going. I can see a situation where, in an effort to be politically correct, they make it mandatory for every cop to ask anyone they pull over for their papers just to make sure that they are legal. This way they aren't profiling, they are just checking everyone on the road. I would like to think I live in a country where I could go to the store and not risk getting pulled over by the police and harassed about my legal status because I might have a broken tail light (Well, actually I wouldn't worry about that because I live in a small town and know all the police on a first name basis, but most people don't have that situation and if I leave town and go somewhere else it could happen.)
Maybe this is a big jump, but things like this happen.