claim: under the new arizona immigration law, police can't stop someone to check their immigration status unless they think they see something illegal.
author: john huppenthal
evidence_1: aug 31, 2016 ... only the out-of-touch media elites think the biggest problem facing american — you know this, you know this, this is what they talk about — facing american society today is that there are 11 million illegal immigrants who don't have legal status. and they also think the biggest thing — and you know this — is ...
evidence_2: apr 28, 2010 ... and at that point, spiro said, an immigration status check would be acceptable under the arizona law. to be fair, it's not necessarily easy to use profiles in this way. spiro said that the challenge is drawing up a defensible profile for spotting illegal immigrants. "you can't stop someone just because they look ...
evidence_3: mar 13, 2017 ... last month, cpb agents checked the identification of passengers leaving a domestic flight at new york's john f. kennedy airport during a search for an immigrant with a deportation order. and in october, border agents seized phones and other work-related material from a canadian photojournalist. they ...
evidence_4: sep 15, 2016 ... arizona has announced an end to its practice of demanding the papers of people suspected of being in the state illegally. ... if officers suspects that a person is in the country illegally, they may contact u.s. immigration and customs enforcement “unless doing so would prolong the stop or detention,” ...
evidence_5: jun 10, 2015 ... last month's viral video of a woman being tased at a roadside checkpoint in northern new york renewed debate over the border patrol's controversial tactic. ... martinez-fuerte, 428 u.s. 543 (1976), the supreme court held that immigration checkpoints were permissible only insofar as they involve a “brief ...