Next Up on the Anti-Immigrant, Racial Profiling Express…La Florida.

Don’t despair, the momentum started by Arizona’s SB1070 has just begun. 

ImmmigrationImpact.com alerts us to a bill drafted by a state representative from Miami, and former police officer, that takes Arizona’s law and kicks it up a few notches (and you thought it wasn’t possible).

Florida Rep. William Snyder has penned a bill that, according to ImmigrationImpact, “mimics SB 1070—allowing officers to stop persons based on a “reasonable suspicion” that they are undocumented in order to check their immigration status. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Rep. Synder’s bill actually goes a step further by providing a caveat that the person stopped will be presumed legal if they have a Canadian passport or a passport from a country which participates in our visa waiver program—the majority of which are Western European countries. Naturally, this caveat has groups enraged over the potential for racial profiling.”

So, according to Snyder, it’s not reasonable to presume that a Canadian or a Western European person is here without proper documents. Everyone else: got papers?

Snyder’s reasoning?  He doesn’t want to upset Canadians who winter in his state.

You can read the entire post HERE.

Mientras tanto, are you planning your next trip to sunny Florida? See if you can rustle up a passport from Luxemburg.