Facts on New Immigration Law
Poet Robert Frost takes apart the adage that good fences make good neighbors and notes that the proverb is good only for people uttering those words. The proverb applies abstract reasoning. Immigration Law is a raw Pandora's Box argument with firebrand rhetoric on each side of the divide. Alabama and Arizona's new immigration laws reap moral hotbeds of emotion. Arizona initiated its laws, and now Alabama received a federal judge's backing to proceed.
A Country's Right to Enact Immigration Laws
Both Arizona and Alabama acted legally in employing individual state law that gives state governances in protecting its state territories where illegal immigration is concerned. The states are not routing legal immigrants and displacing them. There are two categories of immigrants--legal and illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants are allowed to become legal immigrants by applying for legal immigrant status. America is a country of immigrants, but the law maintains that to reap the benefits of legal immigrants, illegal immigrants must apply and be approved to change their status to legal immigrants. This allows the government to weed out the criminals who bandwagon it over amongst law-abiding illegal immigrants entering the United States.
Arizona New Immigration Bill
The new Arizona Immigration Bill SB1070 gives law enforcement the right to stop the operator of a vehicle who appears to be acting suspiciously or has committed an act that is illegal, but the officer cannot legally stop the vehicle and interrogate the driver because the driver is of Hispanic origin; nor can the officer stop the vehicle because the driver looks like an illegal immigrant. The new law now leaves illegal immigrants in an uproar, and supporters of the illegal immigrants are incandescent with rage.
Illegal immigrants have been documented operating vehicles without licenses and being involved in accidents that cause deaths of innocent citizens. Many undocumented immigrants are involved in gang activities, illegal drug trafficking, murder and general mayhem in the United States. There have been complaints about the financial impact children of illegal aliens make on the school and university systems. Medicaid welfare funds expended on family members of illegal aliens have become a talking point as well.
Arizona's new immigration bill was challenged in the courts, with some adjustments thereafter made, but the bulk of the law remains. The uproar appears to have settled down, and the principles of the new law are being applied daily. Law enforcement officers are mindful of how they conduct themselves in applying the law in Arizona following high court appeal decisions.
Alabama New Immigration Law
A federal judge in Alabama has ruled that law enforcement has the right to stop any vehicle that they suspect might be driven by an illegal immigrant. It is a key broad ruling that allows police officers to stop anyone at any time. Police can now verify the status of children attending Alabama schools. Law enforcement can also now verify the status and citizenship of people who are stopped and interrogated in that state. The police have the right not only to stop and investigate, but they can also arrest anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant in Alabama during a routine traffic stop. The federal judge's ruling in Alabama has given law enforcement strong powers to pursue illegal immigrants in the State of Alabama, and the laws are less restrictive than the laws being executed in Arizona.