The Supremes
While we’re all waiting for The Supremes to rule whether or not insurance companies can withhold healthcare from people who are actually sick, another ruling came out today.
Even The Supremes think Arizona has loco camped out in their eyes.
The court ruled that Arizona cannot make it a misdemeanor for immigrants to fail to carry identification that says whether they are in the United States legally; cannot make it a crime for undocumented immigrations to apply for a job; and cannot arrest someone based solely on the suspicion that the person is in this country illegally.
I guess none of those other Supreme dudes wanted to ask Sonia Sotomayor for her ID. She has a lot of heavy books in her office and she no doubt can chunk a few.
So at least you can’t arrest people for breathing while brown, which is a small step in the right direction.
But, there’s also bad news:
However, the court let stand the part of the law that requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they detain, if there is “reasonable suspicion” that the person is unlawfully in the United States.
Reasonable suspicion means “brown people.” That’s gonna be bad news for tanning salons.
This is not America, y’all.
“reasonable suspicion”?! Yeah, we know how that will work out. What is funny is the way the right is claiming victory, even though three provisions were struck down! No word from Mittens, though.
1Just don’t travel through Arizona before ripping that maple leaf off your backpack– don’t want to look foreign. And really don’t put mayo on your fries.
2And don’t use “Eh?” to end a sentence.
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