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Is it politically accurate to claim the Arizona law is unconstitutional yet the Federal Law is not?

Read the actual laws for yourself and decide.

http://law2.house.gov/lawrevisioncounsel.shtml

This is the site of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel for the U. S. House of Representatives. Click "search", enter a Title number (8 in this case) and/or a Section number (1304, 1324, 1373, or 1644) then click "search".

http://www.azleg.gov/

This is the site for the Arizona State Legislature. The first listing under the FAQ takes you directly to the actual legislation in question.

What you will find is that the Arizona law supports and mirrors the Federal law. If the Arizona law is "racist", then so is the Federal law. If the Arizona law is unconstitutional then so is the Federal one.

Of special interest is the fact that the Arizona law clearly states that having a valid Arizona driver's license will qualify as proof that the owner of the license is (most likely) in the country legally, regardless of skin tone, accent, or clothing.

Now that I have done the research for you, anyone who continues to claim that the law is "racist" and/or "unconstitutional" has not actually read the legislation. I would hope that this settles the issue...but I know it won't.

Update:

r1b1c*: Unfortunately, you are incorrect. The law contains provisions *against* racial profiling and mirrors the Federal law exactly. It appears that you did not read them, which is a shame.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I don't know what "politically accurate" means,

    But calling one unconstitutional and not the other is just hypocritical. They either both are, or they both are not. And no one has a problem with the federal law.

  • r1b1c*
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    "Now that I have done the research for you, anyone who continues to claim that the law is "racist" and/or "unconstitutional" has not actually read the legislation. I would hope that this settles the issue...but I know it won't."

    Clearly you fail to understand why we state categorically that this law is unconstitutional. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IMMIGRANTS! The unconstitutionality of the law stems from the facts (among others) that it takes it upon a state to do the job of the Federal government and it encourages racial profiling, because it does so (how else is an officer going to assume a person is here illegally?) and racial profiling is illegal.

    The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is to enforce laws that include foreign nationals, to have a state do this would be akin to having the FBI (a national intelligence office) do espionage in China (a job for the CIA). If you fail to understand this you need to go back to high school and review those books.

    Source(s): [edit to add] I have read the law (not today). Yes, it has provisions against racial profiling. Nonetheless, regardless of those provisions against racial profiling it encourages racial profiling. To put it in simple terms, what could possibly make anybody think that any person is an undocumented alien? If you see anybody in the streets, what could possibly make you think this person may be undocumented? The shoes he wears? The clothes? The cars? All of that is part of racial profiling, not only the color of your skin. It is a matter of compiling/separating/assigning something/anything to a group of people, THAT is racial profiling.
  • 1 decade ago

    No. The state law requires police to inquire about legal status if they have reasonable suspicion. The local police have a very different type of contact with the public. Feds don't do routine traffic stops or anything even close. It's a shame so many cons are so closed minded.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    What would you assume from the Mayor of l. a., he's Mexican (gee i ask your self if he's right here legally). The AZ regulation has already handed a pair of judicial comments, nonetheless those are basically evaluations they have suggested that the regulation falls interior the regulations of the form. the genuine try would be while/if it is going to courtroom. In 2004, Arizona handed a regulation(Prop 2 hundred) that required one to tutor citizenship previously you could desire to sign in to vote or previously receiving public suggestions. This regulation additionally required the folk working in those factors to tutor in any and all suspected illegals. If an genuine replaced into got here across to have violating this regulation a citizen would desire to sue them for damages. In 2007 Arizona handed HB 2779 and the governor suggested right here “Immigration is a federal duty, yet I signed HB 2779 because of fact it is now abundantly sparkling that Congress reveals itself incapable of handling the excellent immigration reforms our usa needs. I signed it, too, out of the concept that the pass of unlawful immigration into our state is by using the consistent call for of a few employers for affordable, undocumented hard artwork.” numerous what's in SB 1070 comes from parts of the above bill, in specific the phrases on the subject of the hiring of illegals. Whose job is it to enforce our Immigration rules ? The duty of that falls under the authority of native land secure practices and Janet Napolitano is yet another of human beings that say that the Arizona regulation is unconstitutional yet like Holder has no longer study the bill. Does it come to a marvel to the liberals that AZ proposition 2 hundred and HB 2779 have been signed in to regulation by using the Governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano ? i think that the constitutionality of a regulation relies upon on which social gathering you belong to. so a strategies Janet Napolitano has controlled to tutor that she is amazingly able to speaking out the two factors of her mouth.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No but then liberals hate facts and truth.

  • IChee
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    politically yes, factually no

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