On Sat, 01 May 2010 23:31:13 +0200, andrel wrote:

> On 1-5-2010 18:36, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:48:15 -0400, John VanSickle wrote:
>> 
>>> You can take your kids with you or you can leave them behind.  Sure,
>>> it is not their fault that you broke the law, but if that didn't stop
>>> you from breaking the law, why should it stop us from enforcing it?
>> 
>> I don't think that this is what Darren was saying, but rather that the
>> Arizona law opens the potential for someone who *is* a legal citizen
>> but isn't carrying their papers on them to be deported.  But the idea
>> behind deporting someone to their country of origin is not valid when
>> their country of origin *is* in fact the US.
> 
> Isn't there a problem that if somebody does not have papers you won't
> know where to send him/her?

We have that situation already here in the US.  Typically people whose 
country of origin can't be determined are detained indefinitely.

Jim

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