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Originally Posted by Hayzel
Is the law allowing police officers to ask for information proving that people are not breaking a law a violation of civil rights?
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Most states (or cities) already require citizens to provide identification when stopped by an officer. I've only heard of a few states (NY being one of them) that don't have this requirement, but I could be wrong. In any case, identification would be one of the
few things I'd actually disclose to someone with a badge (and not without asking for a badge number first).
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Originally Posted by Hayzel
Will this law create a huge problem of racial profiling with the existing laws in place?
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In certain areas, I'm sure it exacerbate racial profiling, but to suggest that it would
create the problem is a little naive in my opinion. If it's going to be used to racially profile people, then there's already a problem with racial profiling, and it concerns the people writing and enforcing the law, not the law itself.
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Originally Posted by Hayzel
Will this law effectively treat the problems of the drug, weapon, and human trafficking?
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No. Illegal immigration is not the reason we have drugs. Drug users, dealers, and manufacturers are the reasons we have drugs. If people in this country didn't buy drugs, we wouldn't be importing them.
If you want to combat illegal immigration, then you fix the immigration laws. If you want to combat drug trafficking, fix the drug trafficking laws. To say that they both go hand-in-hand is a dangerous assumption, especially for immigrants who are completely uninvolved in drugs and are trying to leave a country with rampant poverty and violence so they have a better place to raise and care for their families.
Human trafficking, on the other hand, is also not a consequence of illegal immigration. It's a problem with people who treat humans as resources instead of people. Slavery is present in every single country on the globe, legally or illegally (except in Antarctica, where there are no people, Iceland, and Greenland).
Source. In the U.S. much human trafficking is in the form of child slavery.
Here's an example. As you can see, many of them come over legally, and then stay illegally against their own will.
As for weapons trafficking, I'm not really sure how to even approach this problem. The United States has some of the most lax gun control laws in the industrialized world--we only have restrictions on automatic and some military-grade weapons, and we barely have a system through which we can prevent the sale of weapons to those convicted of gun-related crimes (restrictions which have a huge gun show loophole). We also have very few restrictions on ammunition.