SB1070 Arizona

To end the inaccuracies fostered on the airwaves especially WILK here is a summary from the Arizona Legislature pertaining to its SB1070 recently passed and commonly referred to, incorrectly, as their Immigration Law. Read it and decide for yourself what the real and imaginary provisions are. Here are two parts that are
often maligned, hence an attempt to disseminate the truth.

Requires officials and agencies to reasonably attempt to determine the immigration status of a person involved in a lawful contact where reasonable suspicion exists regarding the immigration status of the person, except if the determination may hinder or obstruct an investigation.


Stipulates that a law enforcement official or agency cannot solely consider race, color or national origin when implementing these provisions, except as permitted by the U.S. or Arizona Constitution.

Claims of racial profiling are completely bogus. Every officer knows it would invite a civil rights lawsuit.

Here is another section that demonstrates this law is aimed at criminals not dad, mom, and children.

Makes a first offense a class 1 misdemeanor.


· Increases the penalty to a class 3 felony if the person commits the offense while in possession of:


Ø A dangerous drug (A.R.S. § 13-3401).


Ø Precursor chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine (A.R.S. § 13-3404.01).


Ø A deadly weapon (A.R.S. § 13-3101).


Ø A dangerous instrument (A.R.S. § 13-105).


Ø Property used for committing an act of terrorism (A.R.S. § 13-2308.01).


· Makes violations a class 4 felony if either:


Ø It is a second or subsequent violation.


Ø Within 60 days, the person has been removed from the U.S. either under 8 U.S.C. § 1229a or 8 U.S.C. § 1229c.

Keep in mind that it is federal law that foreigners must carry their papers with them at all times. It is no different that when we visit a foreign country. In the past your driver's license and birth certificate gained entry into Mexico. Today you must have a passport. But America is picking on the Mexicans???

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U.S. Can't Trace Foreign Visitors Who Refuse To Leave

In this article by JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JULIA PRESTON of the New York Times a huge problem locating foreign visitors who decide to remain in the country illegally is spotlighted and detailed.

For a long time Lou Barletta has been an outspoken critic of the inability to account for foreign visitors who remain past their authorized visa time. In fact most of the illegal aliens in this country did not enter the country illegally but remained here illegally.

New concern was focused on that security loophole last week, when Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian who had overstayed his tourist visa, was accused in court of plotting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper.


Last year alone, 2.9 million foreign visitors on temporary visas like Mr. Smadi’s checked in to the country but never officially checked out, immigration officials said. While officials say they have no way to confirm it, they suspect that several hundred thousand of them overstayed their visas.


Over all, the officials said, about 40 percent of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States came on legal visas and overstayed.

Paul Kanjorski will tell you he is against illegally immigration but his oversight on this huge problem is anemic at best.

Mr. Smadi’s case has brought renewed calls from both parties in Congress for Department of Homeland Security officials to complete a universal electronic exit monitoring system.


Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said the Smadi case “points to a real need for an entry and exit system if we are serious about reducing illegal immigration.”


Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on immigration, said he would try to steer money from the economic stimulus program to build an exit monitoring system.


Immigration analysts said that given the difficulties of enforcing the United States’ vast borders, it remains primarily up to law enforcement officials to thwart terrorism suspects who do not have records that would draw scrutiny before they enter the United States.

The article goes on to chronicle the escapades of Mr. Smadi while remaining in this country. This article leads to another post about a small town police chief who is doing one hell of a job stopping illegal aliens.