The uproar is not targeted at the whole thing, but this part:
Officers have to interrogate everybody who looks like an illegal immigrant. Or anyone could sue him or her of not doing their job.
In short, this is a new version of "pull off every car with American-American in it, cus they all look suspicious".
Some police stations are against it because it puts them into a lose-lose situation. If you interrogate someone who looks "illegal", the victim can sue the police for "racial profiling". Now if the officer don't use racial profile, they will be sued for not doing their job.
It's not like some of the right-wing media described, "they wanna open the border". Nobody said let the illegals get in, but this part of the law put police in a really bad position.
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