Show Us Your Papers: Stupider Than Previously Assumed

Says a reader at The Atlantic:

The truly entertaining bit about the new papers-please regime in Arizona is that it's actually harder for Americans to demonstrate that they're legally in the US than it is for anyone else.

[Few Americans have] a passport (the most recent figure I've seen is 25%) or citizenship card, let alone carries it with them. Driver's licenses and social security cards don't demonstrate anything about the holder's legal presence. In contrast, someone who is illegally in Arizona and might well already have an illicit social security card has little downside to acquiring knockoffs of whatever documents the local authorities want: I predict Arizona's next booming industry will be forgery.

So all SB 1070 will do is make it tougher for American citizens, make it easier for undocumented aliens to appear legit and give criminals selling fake documents a giant economic stimulus? Genius move as always, wingnuts.