| So I am on the DFAT Travel Advisories mailing list... |
 So I am on the DFAT Travel Advisories mailing list...
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Jun. 17th, 2010 @ 11:31 am 
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There was just an update posted on the USA.
It includes this:
There are some 17, 500 Border Patrol Agents in the United States, 89% of which patrol the border with Mexico. If you are travelling in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona or southern California, expect to have your documents inspected by authorities without warning and on a random basis, including on public transport. For further information on the penalties for ‘overstaying’, see the Entry and Exit Requirements section below.
On 23 April 2010, the Governor of Arizona signed into law measures that make it a misdemeanour to lack proper immigration paperwork, such as a passport and Form I-94 or Form I-94W, if asked by law enforcement officials to show them. It also makes it unlawful to transport or harbour anyone unlawfully present in Arizona.
I get travel advisory updates for a bunch of countries; the USA is the only one that includes this sort of thing, that I recall.
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Arizona is a terrifying black hole of horrible Fail legislation, and the rest of the US is disgusted and disturbed by them (or at least, I am. Them and Utah, which has gone so far off the pro-life deep end that they've attempted to criminalize miscarriages).
It makes me glad I live far away from both those states and from the Texas and Kansas state school boards.
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