Why do liberals protest arizona immigration law, when california has a law similar to it?

Because liberals are too reactionary to do any RESEARCH before b#tching.

Besides that, they have a "do as I say, not as I do" mentality.

EDIT: Ben (below,) has bought into the exact bullshit the left was hoping he'd buy into about the Arizona law. He is a perfect example of what the liberal media is capable of.

I am not a liberal, I am a moderate. I know many liberals who wouldn't like the California Law either if they took the time to read it. However, to be fair to the truth, there is a major difference between the two laws and it is the big issue of contention. The California Law has nothing to do with actually making an arrest for the purpose of conducting an immigration investigation, the Arizona Law does. Furthermore, there is no language in regards to what defines reasonable suspicion in regards to who should be arrested. To put it simply, in Arizona, a police officer can simply look at a person and use his or her's own judgment as to whether or not that person appears to be an illegal alien. Then, they can walk up to that person and ask them for proof of legal immigration status. If the person does not have the appropriate papers, they can be arrested, investigated, prosecuted, serve jail time and/or be turned over to the INS.

The laws actually aren't that similar at all. The CA law states that individuals who are ARRESTED for the commission of a crime are subject to investigation of their status as citizens and to deportation if they are here illegally. For example, the drunk driver who killed my mother was deported after he served his ridiculously short sentence (which BTW had nothing to do with race or immigration status, this nation just doesn't care about drunk driving).

The AZ law gives peace officers the leeway to stop a person on the street based on a HUNCH, even if they're doing nothing that is in any way illegal, even if they're just walking down the street minding their own business. This means that people like myself, an American Indian, could very well be stopped for no reason at all. That's why my husband and I canceled our trip through AZ this year.

Aw, man, now you done it! You let all the hot air outta their 'racist' balloon again and it once again fails to fly.

Never try to argue with a lib using facts. It just makes 'em scream in your face, since they really don't operate using any such thing like an actual FACT.

Just goes to show how easily lib fools are manipulated by the democratic machine and the leftist media, huh?

I am against any illegal immigration law at state level. Sure Arizona's law might help with the problem in Arizona, but where do you think Arizona's illegals would go..... they will go to another state and make there illegal problem worse. In the meantime this law is going to cripple there state economy. It needs to be handled at a federal level. We are one nation, with 50 states. Not 50 individual nations lol. I agree that the problem needs to be fixed but I think Arizona went at it the wrong way.

California's law is not similiar to AZ. California's law requires law enforcement to turn over such concerns to the appropriate federal agencies, and is essentially what all states have as far as the law when someone has been arrested.

Key word: arrested. Of course if someone is arrested every effort should be made to find out who they are--and if it turns out they are in the country illegally the feds should be informed.

OBAMA. HOLDER..and the LEFT MEDIA TOLD THEM TO.

BEFORE they even read the damned Bill!

Nothern Cali needs to split from Southern Cali and then declare War on Mexico to take back the southern half.

Well it's not working then. I live in southern california and 2/3 of the people are mexican.

This law requires that the person be arrested on a different charge than simply being here illegally (i.e. drunk driving, theft)

The Arizona law simply allows police to arrest someone based on lack of identification.