Show Me Your Papers

Wow. How would you like to be walking down the street sometime and have a police officer come up to you and say, "show me your papers." Most of us would be pretty upset about that, but assuming the officer had a good reason, we would most likely show him our drivers license thinking that would suffice. But wait, he doesn't want our drivers license, he wants to see your birth certificate and Social Security card. But you don't have those documents on your person. Until you can provide them, he calls for a backup car or paddy wagon to transport you to the police department to be held until you're able to provide them. Sound absurd?

Well, that's what the state of Arizona just passed into law. Sounds crazy, I know, but the issue of illegal immigration is what prompted that state to pass such a law. Scary huh?

Can a city or county also pass such a law? If a city were predominately made up of say, Mexican Americans, could they require people with a Polish Acsent to also "show me the papers".

What about Irish, or German?

Somehow this all doesn't sound very American to me. Sounds Nazi like, (show me your papers).

I suppose Arizonians are freedom lovers?