Jenin Younes

So painting with a broad brush, I mean, generally speaking, officers aren't really supposed to go up to you and ask you for identification or whether you're in the country illegally unless they have some reason to believe you specifically are, like just looking at someone and saying, I think they're illegal is not a good basis.

But it's hard to delineate exactly.

So it's not a huge issue for them to walk up to somebody on the street and say, hey, can you show me some identification?

But you have every right to say no, and they can't use that against you.

So whether or not you're a citizen or whether or not you're here illegally, you can walk away, and they're not supposed to do anything.

And if they do do something, that's against the law.

Yeah, so they are not supposed to be making traffic stops generally, although there are some people who are claiming otherwise.

Their jurisdiction is really to enforce immigration law, patrol the borders and make sure people are not here illegally and that kind of thing.

It's really state and local laws and state and local cops who are supposed to be enforcing traffic law.

Now, what happened with Renee Goode was that they said that she was obstructing their enforcement attempts, their attempts to enforce immigration law.

And there is some law saying that that would be a basis for law enforcement doing something.

I don't think it rises to the level of an obstruction of their operation.

Like her car was just a little bit, you know, in the street.

That's not like she's, I think what we're- What does obstruction look like?

Something really like, if you had a lot of people who were like creating a barrier or something so the officers couldn't do their, whatever they were doing, I don't really think they should be going up to people's houses and knocking and asking if they're here legally.

I think it's probably legal.

What's the legality on that?

I think it's legal and you have every right to shut the door or not open it or they can go up to your house.

I don't think it's very good practice in terms of like creating trust with the public and it's just kind of, you know, just not great.

Yeah, I think that would violate some civil rights law.