Quote:I can't speak for how any one person defines criminal alien.  I can only speak for its actually definition.  The only undocumented workers who have committed a crime are the ones who intentionally entered into the United States by fraud or the ones who never presented themselves for inspection.  The vast majority came over on valid visas and overstayed, which isn't criminal.  

 

We don't even have anywhere near the resources to deport all the illegals we encounter currently, let alone if we became a "Papers please," society.  The constitution isn't just suddenly bypassed because we begin enforcing immigration laws.  There is still the 4th Amendment.  

 

A latino person can't just be pulled over for no reason by law enforcement. A latino person isn't compelled to answer any of a law enforcement officers questions if he is pulled over.  It's no different than if a cop asks you if you've had anything to drink or where you are coming/going.

 

I live in NM...  The vast majority of folks I work with and live around can be looked upon as someone that came across never presenting themselves for inspection!  Can you understand the concern of a libertarian that would be worried that a trump authoritarian regime would work to make everyone in a specific sector of the nation with a certain physical appearence may be considered illegal by the standards you just provided in the bolded part?

 

In the scenario I'm asking--based on your definition-- there is no amount of law enforcement that will get us to a good situation.  But what is bound it happen is a situation where at the very least the southern sector of the homeland is controlled by a fascist directive that is focused on ensuring the fraudulent are weeded out, and that if you dare question it, then you are suspect of either being one or housing one.

 

I mean, you're writing out the situation that we've all seen happen in history.  And yet you have no worries of it.  I find that disturbing.  Any libertarian that is worth their weight sees the problem with allowing this person the power he is requesting.

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