Two provisions in the new Arizona law that can get US citizens arrested


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送交者: james_hussein_bond 于 2010-04-24, 10:27:25:

and will lead to abuses:
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5. Allows a law enforcement officer, without a warrant, to arrest a person if the officer has probable cause to believe that the person has committed any public offense that makes the person removable from the U.S.

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18. Specifies that it is unlawful, if a motor vehicle is stopped on a street, roadway or highway and blocks or impedes the normal movement of traffic:

a) for a motor vehicle occupant to attempt to hire or hire and pick up passengers for work at a different location;

b) for a person to enter the motor vehicle in order to be hired by a motor vehicle occupant and to be transported to work at a different location.

Neither provisions are targeted towards only illegal immigrants. You can be arrested under either provisions just because you don't look "American." And there is no mechanism to prevent possible abuses because of this provision:

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10. Specifies that law enforcement officers are indemnified by their agencies against reasonable costs and expenses, including attorney fees, incurred by the officer in connection with any action, suit or proceeding brought pursuant to this statute to which the officer may be a party by reason of the officer being or having been a member of the law enforcement agency, except in relation to matters in which the officer is adjudged to have acted in bad faith.

So the police are now free to do whatever they please and you have basically no recourse if you are wrongly arrested.




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