Just how does checking someone's immigration status violate their civil rights?

Question

I don't see how this is against their rights. Can someone explain this to me?? I am trying to understand how if someone is here illegally it is violating their "rights" for anyone to say anything about it.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Im trying to figure that out to since when citizens get pulled over we have to have ID.Seems illegals have more rights than citizens since they let illegals go yet we have to pay fines ect?

Since my family immigrated from Denmark,and since most Americans immigrated where are our civil rights?

Answer 2

Cause we are too worried about being unfair and unjust and if minorities complain enough we just give them what they want i have nbo problem with people who are here legally good for them and i have no problem with that but i dont care if someone asks to check if i am legal it doesn't matter if i have nothing to hide then go for it. THE ONLY ONES AGAINST THIS RULE ARE ILLEGAL and they dont have rights in this country so screw em and start checking ID and get them out of here

Answer 3

I see NOT checking as a violation of the rights of legal citizens of the USA. When people come to the attention of the police for traffic violations or other crimes, I believe the police should routinely check out everyone's citizenship - don't have to profile, check EVERYONE when they come to the attention of the police. When people go to the hospital or doctor, check out their immigration/citizenship status. If found to be illegal, call Immigration authorities. When children are enrolled in school, check their immigration/citizenship status, and so on. I do NOT see this as a violation of anyone's rights. Legal citizens and legal immigrants will have no problem proving their status. If this were done as a routine procedure, people would just accept it and would be bringing their documentation with them for these purposes. I believe we have the right to locate and deport illegal immigrants.

Answer 4

The police are below rigidity from their executives in charge to no longer enforce immigration regulations. The executives are below rigidity from the community or being bribed to look any different way. that's honestly in the jurisdiction of all regulation enforcement companies (community, county, state, and federal) to enforce all US regulations alongside with immigration regulations (US Code 8). ICE can not no longer be everywhere so as that they are going to ultimately ought to count on community police that seize unlawful extraterrestrial beings by using huge-unfold police artwork (which does no longer require extra investment).

Answer 5

The issue here is not in the checking, but in the method use to determine that there should be a check made. As an attorney, my thought process would go like this:

1. why investigate the immigration status? is this in conjunction with offering a job, evaluating a tenant, or merely self-interest with no other basis?

2. how do you determine who's status to check? Do you check everyone, no matter how clear it is that they are a citizen? Does appearance play into the determination so that someone who "looks" foreign catches you attention to the exclusion of others? Accent other than American accents?

3. What is your behavior after you check the status? Do you exclude from services and benefits? Deny requests? Call INS even though the person was not applying for a job or benefits?

The civil rights violation comes from the targeting of a community based upon a stereotypical belief that they do not belong. So you have 10 Latinos in front of you and you believe all are undocumented. Run immigration checks on all, but you have profiled them all based specifically and exclusively on their race/ethnicity. Some would say if you are right, who cares. But you may be wrong. Whether you are right or wrong, you have targeted based on an immutable (unchangeable) characteristic (their race, not their immigration status), and that is inconsistent with the rule of law in this country.

Answer 6

In Calif by law they are not allowed to ask about any ones status which is way it's an immigration friendly state. They want all illegals here good or bad they defend them all as misguided people

Answer 7

It absolutely doesn't any more than a policeman asking to see your license violates yours.

They are just trying to make it so.

It can have dire consequences ONLY if they broke the law. All non citizens are supposed to carry proof of their legal presence.

Answer 8

here is a definition from, an encyclopedia.
"Civil Rights-rights that a nation's inhabitants enjoy by law. The term is broader than "political rights," which refer only to rights devolving from the franchise and are held usually only by a citizen, and unlike "natural rights," civil rights have a legal as well as a philosophical basis. In the United States civil rights are usually thought of in terms of the specific rights guaranteed in the Constitution: freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press, and the rights to due process of law and to equal protection under the law." Notice the word "Law" is tied in and repeated throughout the passage. The U.S. Constitution is also a part of this definition.
So, By this definition, Americans civil rights are being flagrantly violated by our governing officials who will not fairly enforce the laws of this great land. By allowing millions of criminal trespassers to invade our sovereign nation, our goverenment is violating every law abiding citizens civil rights on a daily basis. We the people should sue!

Answer 9

Illegal aliens DON'T HAVE CIVIL RIGHTS. Read the Constitution, in plain English, very first line "We the people of the United States....."

Illegal Aliens are NOT "We the people" they are not US citizens, they are not welcomed visitors, they are INVADERS by the strictest or loosest definition of the word.
Does that mean to treat them less than human? No, not at all, it means that they are not protected under the laws of the United States. They have ONE right, the right to go back where they came from.

Answer 10

I wish someone would explain it to me too. Then we can get rid of the stupid "Special Order 40" in Los Angeles. They can't ask immigration status even though they KNOW the criminal is illegal.