Japanese TV Show Looks at Arizona Illegal Immigration / ID Check Controversy

A couple nights ago, ATV’s “Manaberu News Show” took a look at legal and illegal immigration in the United States. Host Akira Ikegami provided a brief introduction to the history of immigration in America, which was said to be relevant to Japan because this country’s declining population could be remedied if more immigrants were allowed to come to Japan.

At one point, Ikegami was explaining how illegal immigration has become a big political issue in America, he introduced the recent Arizona law that would have obligated police to check the immigration status of people during a lawful stop or arrest. The TV show says that this basically meant that foreigners in Arizona would have to carry identification with them at all times. This would even include Japanese tourists!

Unfortunately, the program fails to inform viewers that Japan has similar laws in place. As the friendly-sounding Tokyo International Communication Commitee reminds us on their homepage:

It is required by law that foreign residents and visitors must carry their passport or alien registration card in Japan at all times. You may be detained if you cannot present the card when you are asked to do so by the police.

Judging by the way the celebrity panelists reacted with apparent surprise about how “strict” [厳しい] the Arizona law sounded, they probably weren’t aware of the situation in their own country. It was a real shame that nobody brought up the situation in Japan…

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43 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - October 29, 2010 at 8:35 am

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Craig

That’s funny. Those tarento are such fucking morons
Greengreen

I hate the tarento peanut gallery. It doesn’t matter what information is being presented; it’s always the same “HeeeeeeEEEEEEE” like they’ve just heard a great revelation. And any time one of them accidentally says something smart, especially a woman, they get shouted down by the others. It makes otherwise educational and informative shows really tedious to watch.

For all we know some of them could have raised, or wanted to raise, the broader issues of foreigners in Japan, etc., but were edited out or told not to mention it. I’m sure most of the comments they make are scripted anyway.
- fish taco
  
  It would have been excellent to listen to them be amazed and worked up about the Arizona law for a 5 or 10 minutes, then have them reveal that gaijins in Japan are subject to very similar laws. Kind of surprised that they would have presented this information on television without researching the situation in other parts of the world, like Japan for example.
Level3

The way many libs in Japan comlpain about Arizona Immigration, you’d think they would find it intolerable to live in Japan under similar rules (yet here they stay), which are in some ways even more strict (200,000 yen fine for not carrying your gaijin card). The rules look to get even worse in the very near future (from next year). RFID chips in all our new gaijin cards, which will allow police to wade through crowds, drive along streets, or set up checkpoints and remotely scan anyone they suspect of being gaijin and then question anyone who comes up blank.
I bet when racist Gov. Ishihara heard about the RFID chips and what it will allow the J cops to do, he creamed his pants.

You’d also think the libs would express outrage about similar recent rules in states such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island. But those are traditionally left-leaning states, so they get a pass from the leftist media.

But anyway, introduce your Japanese friends to your gaijin card, and educate them regarding the laws here.
- ponta
  
  “But anyway, introduce your Japanese friends to your gaijin card, and educate them regarding the laws here.”
  
  Have you been educated by green card holders in the U.S. that the card must be in their possession at all times and they could be subject to fines even in the states other than Arizona?
  - Level3
    
    That’s exactly what I mean. We live under this system being required to carry and show ID in Japan. Sure, it’s a drag, but it’s the law, like needing a passport to travel abroad. The Arizona rules are no more strict than those in Japan, yet libs do not find Japanese laws so intolerable that they leave Japan, let alone even raise an objection other than whinging on the Internet.
    Has there been a public protest in Japan on this issue by angry, leftist, Western gaijin? Ever?
    
    I know it’s the same in the many parts of the world, foreigners need to carry an ID. Yet for some reason libs object to the Arizona case.
    
    I know the issue becomes racial profiling, which is pretty easy to prove in either country, though I assume much harder to obtain justice in Japan.
    At least in America there’s a good chance such a case against the first Arizona, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island cop to start asking people with darker skin for their Green Cards will be successful against the cop. I wager that judges will not accept just a different skin color as justification for such a check.
    But in Japan, no such luck.
    
    Do the libs ever stop and ask themselves why the Democrat leadership and left wing organizations including the mass media target Arizona, but not Massachusetts or Rhode Island even though they have the same or worse rules? Find it curious? Even just a little?
    - ponta
      
      Level 3
      
      I agree with you to some extent.
      
      Looking at the reactions, I think some Americans didn’t know the Federal law and its practice.
      
      U.S. federal law already requires aliens to have registration documents in their possession at all times. Any alien who fails to comply with it shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. ( 8 U.S.C. § 1304(e))
      
      http://www.shugiin.go.jp/itdb_shitsumon.nsf/html/shitsumon/b151105.htm
      
      And in practice, the police have already been checking immigrants’s status.
      
      For instance,
      
      (Aug. 7, 2010 Immigration checks standard procedure By Sally Voth – svoth@nvdaily.com)
      
      “Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli’s advice that law enforcement officers in Virginia have the power to ask the immigration status of anyone they arrest or stop appears to be little more than “business as usual” for most local departments.”
      
      (Migrant laws were enforced in LA Jun. 7, 2010 12:00 AM azcentral)
      
      “I’m a little confused as to all the concern about Senate Bill 1070 and the involvement of local police officers.
      
      I was a Los Angeles police officer for 33 years. From the time I started in 1958, we as local police officers enforced illegal immigration.
      
      If there was a lawful contact made with an individual and the officer subsequently ascertained that person was an illegal immigrant, he was transported to immigration. ”
      
      And the following is the Japanese counterpart.
      
      外国人登録法
      第十三条　外国人は、市町村の長が交付し、又は返還する登録証明書を受領し、常にこれを携帯していなければならない。ただし、十六歳に満たない外国人は、登録証明書を携帯していることを要しない。
      ２　外国人は、入国審査官、入国警備官（入管法に定める入国警備官をいう。）、警察官、海上保安官その他法務省令で定める国又は地方公共団体の職員がその職務の執行に当たり登録証明書の提示を求めた場合には、これを提示しなければならない。
      ３　前項に規定する職員は、その事務所以外の場所において登録証明書の提示を求める場合には、その身分を示す証票を携帯し、請求があるときは、これを提示しなければならない。
      
      第十八条　次の各号の一に該当する者は、一年以下の懲役若しくは禁錮又は二十万円以下の罰金に処する。
      六　第十三条第一項の規定に違反して登録証明書を受領せず、又は市町村の長が交付し若しくは返還する登録証明書の受領（第十五条第二項及び第三項の規定による場合の受領を含む。）を妨げた者
      七　第十三条第二項の規定に違反して登録証明書の提示を拒んだ者
      
      第十八条の二　次の各号の一に該当する者は、二十万円以下の罰金に処する。
      四　第十三条第一項の規定に違反して登録証明書を携帯しなかつた者（特別永住者を除く。）
      http://law.e-gov.go.jp/htmldata/S27/S27HO125.html
      
      In practice, as of 2000 no permanent resident was arrested for not carrying the Alien registration card.
      
      http://www.shugiin.go.jp/itdb_shitsumon.nsf/html/shitsumon/b151105.htm
      
      It seems to me that the Arizona Act additionally would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally.
- sublight
  
  The reason “we libs” here object to the Arizona law is because we’ve seen first-hand how obnoxious, intrusive, and ineffective they are, and don’t want the US to go down the same road.
- http://tepido.org/ LB
  
  What Craig said – RFID-blocking wallet. Or naturalize. 😉
- http://www.billowykimono.com Senor Science
  
  I hope you don’t have your Japanese drivers license as those already have an RFID tag and could be read by the police with a hand-held scanner.
  - Rob A
    
    Or your US Passport, which also has one in it.
    - Comment
      
      Most developed countries have them in their passports:
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport
      
      U.S., Japan, Russia, most of Europe, Australia, and they are coming soon to Canada and Brazil.
Different Craig than other comment

@Level3: Time for an RFID blocking wallet then
- http://whatjapanthinks.com Ken Y-N
  
  If you’re worried about the RFIDed gaijin card, an RFID-blocking hat (made out of tinfoil, for example) would be a better investment.
  
  Keeping your mobile switched on leaks far, far more usable data than an RFID tag could ever do.
- Level3
  
  But that’s the problem. If you DO get a shielded wallet. Then when cops go gaijin hunting in shopping arcades or at train station gates with medium-range RFID scanners (5 meters is very doable, and the future will bring greater ranges), and you come up as “gaijin without RFID signal” you’re going to get stopped.
  
  Even worse, knowing how pigheaded some of them can be, I guarantee that some poor RFID-shielding gaijin at some point will be taken in for a lecture or a night in the koban and the cops will say the gaijin is trying to “illegally” hide their gaijin card from the authorities, since “only the authorities can read them”, as they claim. Then threaten them with deportation until they confess to some petty technicality so the cops can put the poor gaijin down as another “successful arrest in the battle against lawbreaking illegal immigrants”. Bet the first such case will be in Tokyo. Any takers? 😉
  
  They will also feel more justified in harassing naturalized Japanese citizens for appearing to be “gaijin without RFID” at such checkpoints, because it’s based on the proof of the RFID scanner. Fewer cases of just letting the apparent gaijin walk away if they’re talking on a keitai or something.
  
  Speaking of checkpoints, the J cops at Narita Airport are going to have a field day once they start trying out medium-range scanning. They might even start to hassle Asians instead of just trying to get names from blonde women.
  
  But this should not be a problem for the vast majority who choose (as most already do, by default) to not shield their RFID-tagged cards and devices. I plan to shield mine just to see if my theory is correct and I get stopped.
weirdo

I wouldn’t be so quick to bash the tarento.

The “gaijin card” law is common knowledge on this blog and to most foreigners because it’s obviously a necessity if you’re a foreigner. Most Japanese people couldn’t be expected to know unless they have frequent contact with foreigners or they were otherwise familiar with the process. It’s the same as Americans not knowing parts of the constitution/bill of rights that aren’t brought up often or have direct impact on them.
- http://tepido.org/ LB
  
  Indeed – or Americans complaining about having to carry ID on their person while in Japan while ignorant of the fact that back home the same rules apply to foreigners. Or complain about “taxation without representation”* and not being able to vote while ignoring the fact that foreigners generally don’t have the right to vote anywhere, even with permanent resident status, even in local elections.**
  
  *While also apparently being ignorant of the situation that expression referred to: nationals of a country being made to pay taxes their fellow countrymen back in England did not have to pay, while being denied equal representation in their own Parliament to contest those taxes.
  
  **No, school boards in New York City do not count. Nor do EU citizens who can vote in local elections in other EU states. They aren’t “foreigners”, not letting them vote would be like saying “you were born in Massachusetts, so you can’t vote in Texas even if you are a resident here”. New Zealand – OK, but they have their own unique reasons (spreading the votes far and wide to dilute the power of landed gentry and prevent NZ from becoming “little England”) for doing what they do, which do not necessarily apply outside NZ).
Piglet

@weirdo

I understand but isn’t it strange to see the TV show commenting on Arizona law when it fails to at least mention the fact (one sentence would be enough) that the Japanese law is similar (or even stricter). Concerning the “talento”, their average cultural background is probably as low as a typical redneck in US, so I have no expectation in this side.
- http://www.billowykimono.com Senor Science
  
  “Concerning the “talento”, their average cultural background is probably as low as a typical redneck in US, so I have no expectation in this side.”
  
  I think the same could be said about Europeans living in Japan.
  
  HEYYYOOOOOOOOO
  - Piglet
    
    I don’t know, are you European?
- ponta
  
  “I understand but isn’t it strange to see the TV show commenting on Arizona law when it fails to at least mention the fact (one sentence would be enough) that the Japanese law is similar (or even stricter)”
  
  In what respect the Japanese law is similar to or even stricter than Arizona law?
  Are you sure you are familiar with the relevant laws?
  I hope your cultural background is not as low as a typical redneck in U.S.
  - Piglet
    
    (based on AP)
    
    Key provisions of Arizona’s immigration legislation, signed into law by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer:
    
    — Makes it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally by specifically requiring immigrants to have proof of their immigration status. Violations are a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $2,500. Repeat offenses would be a felony.
    >> It is also required for foreigners in Japan to carry at all times a registration card showing their immigration status. Violations are punishable by a fine of up to 300000 yen.
    
    — Requires police officers to “make a reasonable attempt” to determine the immigration status of a person if there is a “reasonable suspicion” that he or she is an illegal immigrant. Race, color or national origin may not be the only things considered in implementation. Exceptions can be made if the attempt would hinder an investigation.
    >> There must be a suspicion of a crime too in Japanese law. Being foreign, there can always be a suspicion of being in the country illegally.
    
    — Allow lawsuits against local or state government agencies that have policies that hinder enforcement of immigration laws. Would impose daily civil fines of $1,000-$5,000. There is pending follow-up legislation to halve the minimum to $500.
    >> It is also illegal in Japan to protect illegal foreigners.
    
    — Targets hiring of illegal immigrants as day laborers by prohibiting people from stopping a vehicle on a road to offer employment and by prohibiting a person from getting into a stopped vehicle on a street to be hired for work if it impedes traffic.
    >> There is no corresponding Japanese law.
    
    There is no Bill of Rights or Habeas Corpus in Japan. It is very difficult to confront legally the police and justice system. Immigration-related offenses are very harshly punished, if compared to UE countries or USA. For example, once in an illegal situation (even one day after visa expiration), it is almost impossible to regularize the situation.
    Although children of illegal migrants have been registered in Japanese schools, this is not a recognized right for illegal children. Illegal migrants usually cannot get regularized even when they have school-aged children in the country.
    
    I am not stating an opinion but a fact: Japan is usually considered to have among the strictest immigration rules in the developed world. Whether this is a good or a bad thing can be debated.
    - http://www.japanprobe.com James
      
      There is no Bill of Rights or Habeas Corpus in Japan.
      
      Huh?
      
      The Japanese constitution was written by Americans. Japan has the equivalent of a Bill of Rights :
      
      Japan’s judicial system, drawn from customary law, civil law, and Anglo-American common law, consists of several levels of courts, with the Supreme Court, as drawn up on May 3, 1947, includes a bill of rights similar to the United States Bill of Rights, and the Supreme Court has the right of judicial review.
      
      As for Habeus Corpus:
      
      Article 34 of the Constitution has a provision, which relates to habeas corpus. Article 34 reads: No person shall … be detained without adequate cause; and upon demand of any person such cause must be immediately shown in open court in his presence and the presence of his counsel.[2] The Habeas Corpus Act was enacted in 1948 during the Occupation. The purpose of the Act is “to enable the people to recover the liberty of a person actually unlawfully deprived of liberty in a prompt and easy manner through a judicial procedure.”[3] Further, “[a]ny person whose personal liberty is under restraint without due process of law may apply for relief pursuant to the provisions of this act.”
      
      I can only assume that by saying Japan has “no Habeas Corpus,” that you are referring to the fact that Japanese police can detain suspects for a limited number of days before formally charging them with a crime. Japanese police, however, do not have the power to detain someone without charge for an unlimited number of days.
    - http://www.billowykimono.com Senor Science
      
      “There is no Bill of Rights or Habeas Corpus in Japan. It is very difficult to confront legally the police and justice system. Immigration-related offenses are very harshly punished, if compared to UE countries or USA. For example, once in an illegal situation (even one day after visa expiration), it is almost impossible to regularize the situation.”
      
      There’s a very simple solution to avoid this, it’s called…
      
      Wait for it…
      
      Still waiting…
      
      Not overstaying your visa!
    - ponta
      
      Piglet
      “I am not stating an opinion but a fact”
      
      You ARE just stating your opinion .
      
      Please cite the relevant Japanese laws and compare it with Arizona law and point out the similarity and the aspects in which the Japanese law is more strict.
      You were not just stating your opinion based on your bias like a redneck in the U.S., weren’t you?
      
      .”
      It is very difficult to confront legally the police and justice system.”..”For example, once in an illegal situation (even one day after visa expiration), it is almost impossible to regularize the situation”
      
      This and what follows are off the topic, I guess.
      But anyway, could you cite the statistics for what happens for illegal immigrants in Japan and in a E.U. country who has stayed one day longer than visa expiration.
      You were not just stating your opinion based on your bias like a redneck in the U.S., weren’t you?
      
      “Illegal migrants usually cannot get regularized even when they have school-aged children in the country.”
      
      That also happens in the U.S. and Canada. Isn’t that why we read news about the U.S. and Canada in which some supporters rally to stop undocumented students from being deported? No?
    - Legal Eagle
      
      On paper, the Japanese police can detain a suspect for 23 days without charge but, in practice, they can hold you for far longer. The police can bring a charge unrelated to their main accusation against a suspect, which they know the prosecutor won’t pursue, and then maintain their interrogation. Since suspects now often know about the 23 day limit, police use that knowledge against them. They reason that a suspect who thinks he’s on the verge of release is more likely to confess if the hope of release is taken away at the last minute. Five years ago, one Japanese suspect was held by Chiba police for 78 days before release. No filed charge was picked up by the prosecutor and the police never filed the actual charge which was the subject of their interrogation.
    - ponta
      
      “On paper, the Japanese police can detain a suspect for 23 days without charge but, in practice, they can hold you for far longer.”
      
      Tue, but How Long Can the Government Hold a Terrorism Suspect?
      http://terrorism.about.com/od/counterterrorism/tp/Terrorist-Suspects-Detention-.htm
      
      Canada: 24 hours to indefinitely
      
      France: 4 days maximum before being charged, up to four years following charge
      
      Great Britain: 28 Days
      
      United States: indefinitely, only if declared an enemy combatant
      
      And as you know, some people are detained for little reasons, alleged to be a terrorism suspect.
      
      Let’s be cautious against the abuse of the power.
    - Legal Eagle
      
      I completely agree with you.
      
      Here’s one thing though. That 78 day detention case came up in the Chiba Bar Association’s contribution to a day of presentations by Nichibenren. During the main lecture, we heard the 2007 statistic for the number of people nationwide held in detention for longer than 23 days who were subsequently released without charge. I’d be interested to know what you would guess that figure to be and/or what level you think would suggest possible procedural abuse.
    - fish taco
      
      “Tue, but How Long Can the Government Hold a Terrorism Suspect?
      http://terrorism.about.com/od/counterterrorism/tp/Terrorist-Suspects-Detention-.htm”
      ______________
      
      Interesting page, I wonder what Japan’s position is on international terrorists. I’ve never noticed any reports of terrorists being detained in Japan. Are they processed through the normal legal system or is there some special consideration given? I’m not certain but I think the enemy combatant thing is similar to being a prisoner of war.
      
      Obviously the whole Guantanamo thing was completely botched from the beginning. Even though Mr Obama campaigned with a lot of promises about it he hasn’t really done much. Pretty much any politician who advocates the release of prisoners from there will end up taking responsibility for the prisoners actions once released via their own careers. Since all politician are very interested in their own careers it seems like there will be no end to this situation soon.
    - Legal Eagle
      
      It looks like neither ponta nor anyone else is interested in guessing that statistic so I may be talking to myself here. By way of comparison, in the five years following 9/11, the UK arrested 1,126 individuals under security laws allowing extended detention without charge. 652 were released with no charges brought.
      
      The UK has a little over half Japan’s population. With that in mind, does anyone now want to take a stab at guessing how many individuals – none of them terrorist suspects – were held during 2007 for longer than the statutory 23 days by Japanese police before being released with no charge picked up by the prosecutor?
    - flowby
      
      Yes.
Hamachiman

A bag of rocks would be more intelligent than these “talents”
Useless

I like this show. It is very informative. They take political issues and explain it in a way that is easy for people with no interest in politics to understand. They have taken up quite a lot of interesting issues ranging from how Japanese were treated as “honorary white” in apartheid South Africa to reasons to why US is in Afghanistan etc. The host is a bright character. He seems to be to be quite liberal in his mind set.

As for this clip. This clip is only less than a minute, would like to see the entire clip before coming with further opinions but glad to see that the comedian, what’s his name? Hitori something…? Thought it was strict.
RMilner

The argument over the Arizona law rests on the point that it is anti-constitutional since the protection of the borders of the USA is reserved to the federal government.

Many Japanese people are not aware of the gaijin card system and have never seen one.

I don’t think this is at all strange, since the USA, UK and Japan are similar (and relatively unusual) in having no national ID system for citizens, so there is no logical way for a policemen to ask a citizen for ID.
- Level3
  
  And the people of Arizona would argue that the federal government has decided to very openly abandon its responsibility to protect the borders, thus it is constitutional on a states’ rights basis, that being the right of States to do things not specifically prohibited by the Constitution.
  It is an interesting Constitutional debate. What is a State to do when the federal government shirks its duty? Are we reduced to anarchy regarding the particular law?
  A similar argument is being waged over the attempt to federalize healthcare, which is definitely not in the Constitution, and very much a States rights issue.
  
  One could also argue that claiming that State Police cannot stop people committing federal crimes is ridiculous in principle.
  
  Many are just preplexed as to why the left objects to Arizona doing this, but remain silent regarding Mass. and Rhode Island; or far greater transgressions against basic human rights by states such as New York (from private-to-private eminent domain rulings to banning certain foods)
  
  At least this debate is perhaps educating people as to what the Arizona laws actually contain. Rules that are very similar to Japan.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Sanjuana-Gabriela-Enríquez-Galván/100002411170590 Sanjuana Gabriela Enríquez Gal
    
    You say: “It is an interesting Constitutional debate. What is a State to do when the federal government shirks its duty?”
    
    I say that the federal government is not “abandoning” its duty until it explicitly makes a constitutional change saying so. Until then, Arizona citizens, MUST work within the framework of the federal government in order to get something done about immigration. The state cannot subvert the federal power.
    
    So the answer is that the people of the state must use THEIR federal representatives to bring change.
Charles Bronson

I was going to moan about the panel’s ignorance of their nation’s own law, but shit…average Americans know jack all about our own laws. If it doesn’t affect you personally chances are you don’t know or care, a pretty international standard.
lovely

i just laughed and laughed over the “even japanese..????” before you give me a thumbs down, had this very conversation (again) today. they said, “we are not foreigners, we are japanese (no matter the country they are visiting).”
flowby

More fluff masquerading as info-tainment.
fm78

I don’t know why the Japanese say that the US has “strict” immigration laws, even though they probably have one of the strictest immigration laws on earth. Talk about irony.
ryuugakusei

The controversy regarding the Arizona “Papers please law” has more to do with the actual law itself and that it was Arizona, a state, that passed it rather than the requirement that any foreign citizens in the US must carry documentation.

The fact that law enforcement can ask you for identification papers and you’re legally compelled to reply is not news and is pretty much universal, regardless of whether you’re a US citizen or immigrant or tourist. Even US born residents must provide a Social Security number or Drivers License when asked by law enforcement.

What made the Arizona law controversial was a couple of things: it required a law enforcement officer in any interaction with people suspected to be not US citizens to ask for identifying papers. This of course opens the door to racial profiling since basically anyone not speaking with an pure Anglo-American accent and having Caucasian could conceivably be suspicious. Also it did make the requirement to carry documentation at all times mandatory and required detention for anyone found without sufficient documentation. This went a step above the usual requirements.

Also, immigration control is under the jurisdiction of the federal government and therefore this law is unconstitutional. The constitution overrides the power of any state laws when they conflict with federal law or attempt to supersede powers granted to the federal government.

Thirdly, it has come to light in recent months since the bills passing that the parties responsible for the bill have strong connections to anti-immigration white supremacist groups and the Governor has ties to private companies that operate prisons under contract for the state of Arizona. This law, of course, would create many new inmates for these semi-private prisons so the conflicts of interest and potential for corruption are staggering.

As for the “informative” tarento comments, yes, a Japanese tourist in Arizona would have to present documentation just any tourist would in practically any country in the world, including Japan!
http://www.keepingpaceinjapan.com Turner

Let’s ignore the constitutionality of the Arizona law for now and just stick with a basic comparison to the situation in Japan. Yes, it’s understandable that tourists should be expected to carry identification, but to make it illegal if they don’t at all times? What about those wanting to keep it “safe” in their hotels while they go somewhere off the beaten path for the day, or go for a run, or anything dirty or wet? Should they risk their most important travel document in those cases? I ask, because I’ve questioned if I should bring my gaijin card with me running (did, most of the time).

In any case, the issue becomes what to do with foreign RESIDENTS. People who live and work in Japan and yet are treated like criminals by being asked for their papers because they simply look different. You can make the argument that this is only used for “reasonable suspicion” on paper, but, in practice, it isn’t; it’s subject to the whims of the police. The same is true in Arizona; you can say the law applies to all immigrants, but the only outcome is racial profiling of Mexicans.
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