Comments on: Hotels, landlords may soon want to check your immigration status

By: Miguel

Miguel — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 00:53:00 +0000

ok we will also arrest one of your previous presidents for lying to the WORLD about the WMD…….

By: Ken Morris

Ken Morris — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 23:06:00 +0000

Correct. The US also requires people to carry valid IDs, and to produce them when an authority demands, which sometimes happens. Meanwhile, Arizona as we all know upped the ante for showing IDs for anyone with a Spanish accent. CR is hardly unique among the world’s countries.

As for agreeing or disagreeing with the law, I tend to disagree with it as a general matter. I am not comfortable with states requiring people to have papers, and charging them for them. (One of the reasons there are so many illegal Nicas in CR is because many can’t afford the papers, not because they couldn’t obtain them legally if they had the money.) I wonder where it was decided in like international law that everybody in the world is obligated to pay for state-issued papers. States have become incredibly powerful, and my Libertarian streak recoils at that.

Yet, in the real world (divided into nation-states) governments do end up having to regulate who can and who can’t be in their territory. In this real world, it’s a small thing to carry an ID and produce it when asked.

Meanwhile, regarding CR, I have to wonder what the folks who keep getting asked for their IDs are up to. I have lived here 8 years and no cop has ever stopped me on the street to ask to see my ID. Granted, it could happen any day, but it hasn’t happened so far.

By: Frank Castle

Frank Castle — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 22:59:00 +0000

I don’t know where you have lived in the USA, but I have been asked to produce ID, papers, several times in my life in the USA by law enforcement personnel. That be said, I don’t really agree with that either. Also, almost all good guide books to Latin American countries state that you should have your passport (or at least a copy of the main page with you photo, name, country, etc and the page of your current visa stamp allowing you to be in that country) on your person or very close by. That is standard SOP and has been for years.

By: prdatki

prdatki — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 18:37:00 +0000

What the Government needs to is arrest the Last President for Corruption , theft,etc then audit all elected officials past and present.

By: Chris Perkins

Chris Perkins — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:30:00 +0000

Nazi germany? The comments below are just ignorant.

By: duke ster

duke ster — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:57:00 +0000

Yes I agree with you–it feels very much like a communist country when you are stopped and asked for your papers==the USA doesn’t do that to me–never– Costa Rica is pure shit–to me anyway.

By: Upset with goverment of CR

Upset with goverment of CR — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:43:00 +0000

Nazi Germany use to ask for paper everywhere you went now CR goverment will ask the same. The other day i was walking in San Jose andwas stopped by two police that asked for my Cedula or passport. When i asked why they where stopping me they said your white and look like a tourist. I showed them my Cedula and said make sure you don´t travel without documents in CR or you could be detained. Nazi State is still very alive in the world.