No Roads For You, Arizona Lawmaker Says to Illegal Immigrants (and Bail Jumpers)

Arizona State Rep. Carl Seel
(that’s him pictured) is getting
plenty of press mileage from his bill banning illegal
immigrants from using “public resources” such as roads, public
schools, “or the services of any public entity in this state.”
“Services” apparently include toilets in government buildings,
which has local journalists tittering. Oh yeah; bail jumpers and
parole violators would have to use the bushes (those aren’t
“services,” are they?) outside the Capitol Complex, too—though
that’s a recent addition. Seel has been
trying to ban furriners from the highways and byways for years,
and finally tacked on the other stuff in an effort to convince
people he’s not just completely obsessed with immigrants.

For the record, Carl Seel is completely obsessed with
immigrants, and also a bit of a
whack-job birther.

The current (completely not obsessed with immigrants)
version of his legislation, HB 2434, reads:

A.  A person commits unlawful use of public resources if
the person uses any public resource while present in this state in
violation of any regulation, statute or court order or any other
operation of law that has determined the person is not lawfully
present in this state or that precludes the person from lawfully
entering or remaining in this state, including an executive office
for immigration review deportation order, a signed agreement to not
return to the United States between the person and the United
States Immigration and customs enforcement or an order by another
state requiring the person to not leave that state while on bail or
a similar court order.

B.  Any record that relates to the immigration status or
illegal presence of a person in this state is admissible in any
court without further foundation or testimony from a custodian of
records if the record is certified as authentic by the government
agency that is responsible for maintaining the record.

C.  Motor vehicles that are used in violation of this
section are subject to seizure for forfeiture in the manner
provided for in chapter 39 of this title.

D.  A violation of this section is a class 1
misdemeanor.  A second or subsequent violation of this section
is a class 6 felony.

E.  For the purposes of this section, “uses any public
resource” includes driving on a public road or highway, accepting
any public benefit, attending a public school or using the services
of any public entity in this state.

You’ll notice that the bill authorizes state officials to snatch
motor vehicles from foreigners seeking opportunity in this country
(no, I don’t care that they’re violating immigration laws to do so)
and, oh yeah, bail-jumpers. That would be civil asset forfeiture
“without
court process.”

In Seel’s favor, he also wants the state of Arizona to
tell the feds to stuff their gun restrictions. I don’t know how
effective such a law would be, but devoting more of his time to
even a Quixotic effort to expand freedom would be an
improvement over a jihad against immigrants—especially one that
uses legalized theft as an enforcement tool.