I'm not connecting the dots here but that's not unusual for me.
ICE has the legal authority to ask anyone, anytime and for no reason at all to verify citizenship. It's part of interior enforcement for 100 miles.
Now, Arizona is not and did not apply their state law in the same way they want to require probable cause for interior enforcement in their state.
What you are describing is exterior enforcement at the point of entry. Another popular type of legal enforcement is attrition, for example.
Now this would make sense to me concerning laptop and correspondence searches at the border but not for interior enforcement to validate citizenship.
http://geoffatmountallison.blogspot....eckpoints.html
p.s. Who is "we"? I recall a long history of anti-illegals asking for better interior enforcement and that being here illegally, even without commiting another crime, is still a crime and should be enforced.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2002/sactestimony602.html
Quote:
Are you shocked to learn that vigorous law enforcement reduces crime?
In the first year of the experiment, monthly apprehensions - a rough measure of illegal crossings - fell 57 percent across the Border Patrol's Del Rio sector and 78 percent in the area around Eagle Pass. Agents here seized more than $15 million worth of narcotics in November, about four times what they seized in the same month the year before - the result, officials say, of more time spent on the line and less processing border crossers.
Perhaps just as telling, immigrants as far away as Central America have heard of the program and have begun to view this stretch of the Rio Grande as a place to be avoided.
Our supporters of open borders for years argued it is futile to control the borders. They wanted us to to give in to feelings of helplessness and passivity. Instead we got angry, yelled at the gub'mint and they did something about it while trying not to. Now we have more narcotics getting seized because the reduction in the flow of illegals frees up more Border Patrol time to go after smugglers. Border law enforcement works, the border is controllable, and illegal crossings can be brought down to a small trickle.
Border Patrol commanders argue the slackening flow of migrants belies the conventional wisdom that it is impossible to stem illegal migration along a 2,000 mile, or 3,200 kilometer, border. Many veteran officers in the force are now beginning to believe that with sufficient resources, it can be controlled.
We need a wall. We need more monitoring gadgets. We need more Border Patrol agents. We also need prosecution of illegal crossers along the entire length of the border. Plus, we need more interior enforcement of immigration laws.
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http://www.parapundit.com/archives/c...forcement.html
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/le...clear-act.html