Thats when you sue.

Yeah, its pretty embarassing and discouraging honestly.

OT: The fetishization of law enforcement is getting irritating. Transit police have no authority or training to deal with issues outside of their hired purpose of dealing with transit issues, they should absolutely not be allowed to apply force or interrogate people however they see fit. That goes for any law enforcement officer as well, how the hell does anyone think it's a good idea to have unchecked and unregulated law enforcers without proper training.

Good riddance to bad cops I say.
This guy shows up, asks questions he has no right or authority to ask and when put under pressure tasers a guy over a bus fare. Is this amateur hour?

But sure, let's give taser-man the power to conduct investigations in America's nonsensical immigration process.
I sense a pattern of putting "authority" over competence.

All police officers should be able to investigate and detain people under suspicion of being illegal immigrants. For example: If you don't speak a single word of english, and have no valid I.D. on you, you are probably an illegal immigrant.

As an Arizona resident I am getting sick of how many people have flooded over here in recent years. You can't even get a job at a fast food place, or Wal-Mart anymore unless you speak both english and spanish. These people don't just take jobs nobody wants. There are plenty of illegal immigrant cooks, grocery store butchers, security guards, and truck drivers etc over here. How do you get a job like that, while being illegal? Simple. Get a work visa and then overstay it. Your employer will be to scared of legal action to check and see if it is still valid.

Minimum wage is another issue. Paying someone $15 per hour for unskilled labor is not the answer. Fast food jobs are not careers, they are for high school kids learning to work. The difference here is employers are taking advantage of the fact that to outsiders, $9 per hour is a fortune and they don’t have to pay benefits to illegal or work visa employees. They are saving on both fronts. An American employee who is willing to work full time at $9 per hour is forced to have insurance and now the employer is forced to provide it and pay a portion of it thanks to the idiotic Democrats. Maybe employers and employees would have it better if we stop trying to mandate benefits coverage. Benefits used to be a perk offered by employers to entice talent, now it is a burden they try and avoid at all costs.

He doesn’t have the authority to ask if the person is her illegally? Why not? He has the right to ask for ID doesn’t he? The man committed a crime by not paying for his train ride, something that ends up costing people who do pay because the fees get raised due to those losses. I guess you Democrats like that sort of thing though, you like paying more so others don’t have to pay anything. It’s not like the cop is going around asking random people to see their ID, he was detaining someone for fair evasion. Apparently the illegal doesn’t care about the law here though because he feels he is entitled to live here illegally and ride the train for free as well.

Not if we tax imports more heavily. Why do you think other countries tax our imports so much? They want to keep jobs in there own country.

Technically they are all criminals because they are here illegally. They drive down wages and make jobs that Americans would work, jobs that Americans can’t work. Like I said in a previous post employers are not required to provide medical benefits to visa holders or illegals. Visa holders are supposed to make prevailing wage rates however illegals are not. Even at prevailing wage, the company saves money because they are not required to pay for benefits. That puts the American worker at a disadvantage because even at the same hourly rate the Visa employee costs the company less per year. In order to make the annual compensation equal the employer will need to lower the hourly wage of the American worker considerably to offset the cost of medical benefits. Now not only is the employee getting  paid considerably less per hour than the visa worker, they are also required to pay their portion of medical benefits out of the earnings they make, that lowers take home income even more. Depending on the line of work you could be looking at a $20K+ difference in take home pay per year between an American worker and a Visa worker. We arent talking about just dishwashers and farm laborers here. Illigals make up most of those jobs and essentially have the same affect for the same reason, only the companies arent required to pay them a ertain prevailing wage which means they can go even lower.

I'd rather have less if it means those people get to have more.

Menial jobs are fucked in the next 10-15 years anyway. Most of them will be automated. Even go to a McDonalds today, there's like 1/3 the staff there used to be because they just have orders handled by the touch screen displays.