"They are lawbreakers" - yeah, the illegal aliens are.

I, on the other hand, am not.

I was born in Providence, Rhode Island. However, due to the fact that I was illegally adopted and my name changed without paperwork, I could not produce proof of citizenship. No paper-trail would lead to a birth certificate.

It took me TWENTY YEARS to fix this problem - and it was only because of some interesting notes my adoptive mother put into my social security records when I she applied for my card back in the mid 1970s that I was able to finally get enough paperwork together to have my name 'legally' changed to what I've been going by for more than 40 years. After THAT court procedure, I went and 'fixed' my driver's license (since my adoptive mother changed my birthdate as well) and finally had everything I needed for a passport (my personal 'holy grail' of ID).

Having said that, I certainly agree with the aim of this bill. The interesting part is going to be how a cop determines "reasonably suspicion" that someone is an illegal alien. If they just start rounding up 'brown people', there'll be hell to pay.

This does sound like we're getting closer to having to hear "Your papers, please.." from people in uniform.

I wonder how they'll detect illegal Canadians? (Targeting just Mexicans could be a violation of the Equal-protection-under-the-law part of the Constitution)