[credit: Lalo Alcaraz]
Wackydoodle sez: Papers? I ain't got no stinkin' papers!
The passage of Arizona Senate bill 1070 culminates a rightward shift in a state that has been conservative even before the days of Barry Goldwater. The law is a potential fountain of police abuse and racial discrimination that allows majority white police to stop anyone they think is possibly undocumented to prove they are legally in the United States. The bill smacks of vigilante justice and probably violates the constitutional doctrine of federal preemption in the area of immigration.