{"id":3220,"date":"2010-04-29T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2010-04-29T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:51:00","slug":"about-that-arizona-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"About That Arizona Immigration Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

PolitiFact does a fact check on this statement from George Will<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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"What the Arizona law does is make a state crime out of something that already is a crime, a federal crime," he said. "Now, the Arizona police — and I’ve spent time with the Phoenix Police Department — these are not bad people. These are professionals who are used to making the kind of difficult judgments. Suspicion of intoxicated driving, all kinds of judgments are constantly made by policemen. And I wouldn’t despair altogether their ability to do this in a professional way."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

PolitiFact went to legal scholars and found out that, indeed, this is the case.<\/p>\n

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The legal scholars we spoke with told us to take a close look at two key sections of Title 8 of the U.S. Code. Section 1304e requires that "every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him." Those who fail to comply will be guilty of a misdemeanor and will be fined $100 and can be imprisoned up to 30 days.<\/p>\n

Section 1306a says that, "Any alien required to apply for registration and to be fingerprinted in the United States who willfully fails or refuses to make such application or to be fingerprinted, and any parent or legal guardian required to apply for the registration of any alien who willfully fails or refuses to file application for the registration of such alien shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not to exceed $1,000 or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both."<\/p>\n

Indeed, section 3 of the new Arizona law makes it a state crime if immigrants are in violation of either of those codes.<\/p>\n

So, when it comes to that section of the law — arguably the "meat" of the new law — "it’s very clear that in this respect, George Will is right," said Paul Bender, a law professor at Arizona State University.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They ding Mr. Will on some misdemeanors that are also included in the Arizona bill, but overall, Will is correct.  And yet many liberals<\/a> are overreacting and protesting<\/a> or boycotting<\/a> Arizona in response<\/a>.  Some uninformed individuals are even boycotting New York<\/a> over this.  Jim Wallis and the Sojourners are, unfortunately yet predictably, against this measure<\/a> that simply allows Arizona to enforce the law that the feds won’t.  <\/p>\n

2 words:  Knee.  Jerk.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PolitiFact does a fact check on this statement from George Will: "What the Arizona law does is make a state crime out of something that already is a crime, a federal crime," he said. "Now, the Arizona police — and I’ve spent time with the Phoenix Police Department — these are not bad people. These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,26,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-politics","category-race-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t