Bob Phillips, an OC-504 comrade who served as a San Diego assistant district attorney for many years says the allegedly-racist Arizona anti-illegal immigration law isn’t new:
“…at least as I understand it, doesn’t change the existing law at all, except maybe to encourage Arizona cops to be more proactive in doing what the Border Patrol is too understaffed to do effectively by themselves.
“When I was a cop way back in the 70’s, we used to stop and arrest illegal aliens all the time. A state cop (under the case law) is empowered to enforce federal statutes so long as it was Congress’s intent that they do so when the statute was enacted. There is case law that says that Congress intended local cops to enforce the federal illegal entry and illegal presence statutes. So we did so until it became politically incorrect to do so.
“So San Diego PD, and many other agencies, by policy, quit enforcing the federal statutes. Arizona did no more than eliminate the issue (if there ever was one) by making it a violation of state law as well to be in the country illegally. Being a victim of the illegal alien invasion myself at times, I’m all for it.”
Me, too, tired as I am of seeing my taxes rise to pay for the consequences of the invasion that our feckless politicians and president wish to ignore.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 