Just how will those traffic stops work?

The Supreme Court has ruled that Arizona cannot require immigrants to carry immigration papers. However, Arizona can go ahead and require the cops, when they stop somebody for a broken tail light, to check the driver’s immigration status. (AP Photo/file)

The Supreme Court has ruled that Arizona cannot require
immigrants to carry immigration papers, that would be a
little too Gestapo.

However, Arizona can go ahead and require the cops,
when they stop somebody for a broken tail light, to check
the driver’s immigration status.

So when Arizona cops stop you, they have to ask you if
you’re legally here, but you don’t have to carry the
papers to prove it.

So can they haul you in just for looking Mexican? Of
course not! And the official training video spells out
the punishment for cops who do that:

“Racial profiling is police misconduct. Lost job, lost
career, lost retirement, over what, catching a person who
didn’t obey a law to get into this country,” says the
video.

So all cops can do is ask ‘what’s your name, where do
you live, where were you born, are you a US citizen?’
But would people tell the truth?

Maybe, if this was a Ricky Gervais movie.

But I think real people would probably lie, so
basically the cops would have to go by the accent, which
isn’t racial profiling, but Arizona’s population being 30
percent Latino you may end up hassling legitimate
citizens, some of whom might lawyer up and claim profiling
— and you remember what the video said.

“Lost jobs, lost career, lost retirement, over what?”

So I think the police will profile. They will profile
anyone who looks like he might be able to afford a good
lawyer, and those broken tail lights…no big deal.