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Originally Posted by telekinetic
I live in Arizona. I know dozens of of people who have gotten in car accidents where the other driver was uninsured, unlicensed, and known to be here illegally. Why they weren't deported as soon as the cops identified that fact at the scene always baffled me, and now they will be. Done, and done.
They aren't going to start 'driving while brown' busts. If someone gets pulled over for drunk driving or is in an accident and they don't have ID and can't produce an SSN or other documentation of their legal residence, I have no problems sending them on their merry way, and don't understand people who do.
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This is a false proposition (that anyone is in favor of keeping those who get into those accidents around).
Last I checked:
- Driving without a license or without insurance was already illegal.
- Illegal immigrants who were arrested are to be turned over to ICE anyways
- deportation is a federal matter. At the end of the day, the new AZ law does nothing about deportation. It just adds certain penalties before turning the person over to ICE anyways.
That is the problem with the debate over the Arizona law: people just don't know what it does.
The example you gave, of someone being not being deported after a car accident where they were found to be breaking the law, isn't really changed by the new law.