Ted Robbins of NPR offers "Immigration Bill Puts Civil Rights Defenders On Alert" (npr.org/templates/story/story.php?f=1015&ft=1&storyId=126241841). He lies and misleads about the provisions of the recently-signed Arizona immigration bill:

Local police and sheriff's deputies are required to stop anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally. Whoever they stop must produce ID proving their legal status. If they don't, officers have to arrest them... The law allows police to take race into account when they stop people so even some of those here legally say they fear being stopped because of the color of their skin.

1. As with Anne Kornblut and Spencer Hsu and with CNN, Robbins is lying: police won't simply be stopping anyone who they think is here illegally; it will have to be part of a lawful contact, such as a traffic stop. See the last link for the details.

2. As I read the bill, officers aren't required to arrest people who can't produce documentation, they're only allowed. (Other provisions allowing citizens to sue authorities for failing to enforce the law might come into play in that case.)

3. See this for a discussion of the last sentence in the excerpt; Ted Robbins isn't telling the whole truth.