Rhode Island Already Checks Immigration Status At Traffic Stops!

Rhode Island is the new Arizona. No, actually, Arizona is the new Rhode Island.

Rhode Island has long been carrying out the procedures at issue in the Arizona immigration statute: As a matter of routine, RI state police check immigration status at traffic stops whenever there is reasonable suspicion to do so, and they report all illegals to the feds for deportation. Rhode Island police who insist on enforcing the law.

If, as President Obama and Attorney General Holder claim, there is a federal preemption issue, why hasn’t the administration sued Rhode Island already? After all, Rhode Island is actually enforcing these procedures, while the Arizona law hasn’t even gone into effect yet.

Could it be because.....the Supreme Court in Muehler v. Mena (2005) has already held that police do not need any reason (not probable cause, not reasonable suspicion) to ask a person about his immigration status?

Could it be that just this past February, in Estrada v. Rhode Island, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the Rhode Island procedures, reasoning that, in Muehler v. Mena, the Supreme Court “held that a police officer does not need independent reasonable suspicion to question an individual about their immigration status…”?

So, we have a Justice Department that drops a case against New Black Panthers who are on tape intimidating voters in blatant violation of federal law, but that sues a sovereign state for it's immigration enforcement practice because it supports illegals from south of the border.

Perfect.........so much for obama closing the divide on race!!!!