Last week, Nevada said it was buying voting machines for the entire state, and it demanded paper receipts for all voters.
"I ran into a Nazi checkpoint in the middle of New Mexico where they were demanding papers or jail," he said.
Across the region are fast food shops, car washes, furniture stores and other establishments that have had sheriff's deputies unexpectedly rush in demanding papers.
All sorts of unexpected and nasty things happen when a state empowers the police to demand papers of suspected illegal immigrants.
The assumption of the Italian film-makers – that no border police would demand papers from a bride wearing a white dress – paid off.
Religious zealots patrolled places where men and women met for a stroll and a chat, demanding papers to prove the nature of a couple's relationship.
Other states have declined to enact copycat laws modeled after Arizona's notorious SB 1070, which requires police officers to demand papers from a person who they have "reasonable suspicion" to believe is in the United States unlawfully.
Among other things, the law requires local police to demand papers from anyone officers have any reason to doubt is a citizen — anyone, in other words, who looks Mexican.
The men and one Romanian woman staging the protest came to Seville two weeks ago to set up camp in the university sports area and to demand papers for the right to work in Europe.
We think they aren't just demanding papers because you look illegal.
