I find all of this fuss quite humorous; the federal government has had basically the same law as Arizona on the books for nearly thirty years now. However, bei

I find all of this fuss quite humorous; the federal government has had basically the same law as Arizona on the books for nearly thirty years now. However, being the feds, they arbitrarily enforce laws as it suits them (mainly because they have so many criminal laws now that there is no way they could consistently enforce them all -- even if they press-ganged a tenth of the population into the US marshalls). The issue here is that Arizona is deciding to enforce such an unjust law. Why is it unjust? Because it is a "positive" offense (I.E. it violates no one's natural rights) -- an offense that would not exist without government. Traditionally, systems based on English common law restricted the punishment of "positive" offenses to fines (a tradition sadly abandoned by most Anglo nations now), regardless of whether said person was a "citizen" or not. To be fair, the old English common law didn't have (or need) the concept of "citizenship" in the first place. Citizenship generally only enters into a society when there is special privilege associated (I.E. a leg-up on the rest of society) -- which is the main reason people are upset about "illegals", as they are partaking of pillage (aka entitlements) the citizens thought reserved unto themselves. So what is the better alternative? Simplify the legal code, such that citizenship is irrelevant? Or have an even more complex system that requires such brutal enforcement to be held together? Or is it the one world government? I would posit that the last two choices are inappropriate -- brutal enforcement and complex laws destroy trust in a society, while a one-world government cannot hope to meaningfully represent the diverse aims of man; it would be a sub-optimal outcome at best, and inescapable tyranny at worst. However, no one will accept simplifying laws such that they are not an affront to justice and liberty, as those who have secured themselves entitlements and other powers will not release them without violence. So, sorry guys. There's no solution to this problem that won't cause worse trouble down the line. To be fair, it's not like we have a choice in the matter anyways -- the only votes we ever had (or can ever have) is our money...and we gave away that control in 1913.