<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There is a distinction between being arrested as a "possible" illegal alien and BEING an illegal alien.<div>I know of no laws, including federal laws that allows for arrest of being a "possible" illegal alien.</div><div><br></div><div>Since the whole thread of this was a result of the Arizona legislation, everyone tends to over look the current FEDERAL LAW,</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><strong><a href="http://frwebgate5.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/TEXTgate.cgi?WAISdocID=288314403673+0+1+0&WAISaction=retrieve" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 80, 169); ">8 U.S.C. 1304</a></strong>—This is the federal law that requires that “every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him” by the Federal government.</span><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br><div><div>On May 24, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Wayne Price suggests:<br><br>"The Department of State DOES issue US passport cards. And there are<br>other documents issued by the federal government that proves citizenship."<br><br>So . . .<br><br>To prove that I am a US citizen living here in Moscow, Idaho . . . I<br>should obtain a US passport? So that local authorities do not arrest me<br>for possibly being an undocumented alien?<br><br>This coming from a guy who earlier claimed that the government has too<br>much influence in our private lives!!!<br><br>Maybe George Orwell was right, but merely 26 years premature with his<br>movie title. Maybe he should have titled it "2010" instead of . . .<br><br>"1984"<br><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/videos/1984_1954.htm">http://www.moscowcares.com/videos/1984_1954.htm</a><br><br>Seeya round town, Big Brother.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<br>and the Realist adjusts his sails."<br><br>- Unknown<br><br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>=======================================================<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>