Warp wrote:
> 4) Do you agree that police forces have quite limited resources (most of
>    which comes from taxpayers' money), and that those resources should be
>    used as efficiently as possible, rather than wasted on useless pursuits?

You misunderstand. The complaint with this isn't that. The complaint is that 
the law specifically says "you get to make people prove their citizenship 
without having any reason at all to suspect they might not be citizens."

It's a useless pursuit to hassle *every* mexican-looking American, since 
they outnumber non-mexican-looking Americans everywhere people are passing 
this law. This law won't make it easier to catch illegal immigrants. We 
already have laws for that. What this law says is "you get to go to the 
house of someone and wake them up and ask them to prove their citizenship."

I suspect most people in this country couldn't even do that with the papers 
they have in their house.  Most people don't have passports and most people 
don't have birth certificates any more.

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