"Police in suburban Scottsdale [Arizona] have begun routinely asking for proof of citizenship from every suspect they arrest and turning those who are in this country illegally over to federal immigration officials.

The procedure was started Oct. 15, a result of the September killing of Phoenix police officer Nick Erfle by an illegal immigrant, Erik Jovani Martinez…." (foxnews.com)

To have police officers not checking the citizenship of suspects and whenever identification is requested of a person is ludicrous, and law enforcement agencies should be sued and officers brought up on charges or fired for not protecting public safety and the common good.

The criminal influx, which far exceeds one police officer murder, that illegal and some legal immigrants bring to the U.S. is merely another addition to the list of social institutions they are toppling: a fair labor market, public education, health care, a common language, and local culture and community.

If only an extremely small minority of persons in the U.S. were illegal, then citizenship verifications as an additional layer of identification may be less mandated. However, when 10-20% or greater of the U.S. population is unofficially illegal, which includes their many anchor babies and chain migrationers, law enforcement and border security should be held accountable for their treasonous disregard to the American people.

Furthermore, the acceptance of the belief that sufficient identification of a person is through a driver's license, or a Mexican Consular ID, which neither verifies citizenship or requires authentic identifying documentation to obtain is absurd. A standardized driver's license ID or non-driving ID that verifies the person's documented identity and citizenship in a clearly marked way should be, logically, the only identification card to provide for people. Yet no identification card of this kind, excepting a U.S. passport (for travel outside of the U.S.), exists in the U.S.

Law enforcement should do their job. If the rule on the law books is that law enforcement officers shall not check citizenship while America is awash in a cesspool of illegal immigrants, then that rule is wrong and the officer is still accountable to do what is right and check citizenship and deport illegal immigrants. The excuse of, "but I was just doing my job", is not acceptable—the Nuremberg Defense shows that to be true, it officially recognized what had always been a bad argument.

"The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility…" —Nuremberg Principle 4