On February 16, 2012 the Salt Lake Tribune had an article on page A11.  The name of the article is ""Papers Please" law would harm all Utahns".  The article was written by Chris Burbank, who is Salt Lake City's chief of Police.    The article centers around the HB497 "Papers Please" law that has been on hold since May of last year.  The proposed law would require immigrants to carry their paperwork with them or face the possibility of being arrested.  Chief Burbank makes some valid points when he stated that Salt Lake has such diverse communtity that would ultimately suffer from the federal governments inaction with regards to the inadequate immigration laws.  Police officers would end up spending their time chasing paperwork and as a result would spend less doing what is more important...protecting the community.  Not only would it strain the police departments resources but you take a huge risk that people would stop working with the police in fear of being questioned about their immigration status.  I know we need to do something about the immigration problem we have in this country.  It would be better if the federal government addressed the problem themselve, but since they haven't the individual states must now come up with their own solution.  I welcome anyone wishing to live in the United States.  What I have an issue with is the amount of illegal immigrants living within the United States.  If we were to visit any other country we would need to keep our passports etc. on hand...surely we could figure out some organized way to tackle this issue and make it uniform through out every state.  How hard would it be to go from one state to another and keep up with the changing laws?  It's not just something that one state has to figure out, but something the nation needs to solve and make uniform.  So, the constitutionality of this proposed law will ultimately be decided in court.  Good luck!