**Almost sounds like a bouncy alert**
Last night I went out to dinner with a large group of people and ended up sitting with people that I didn't know. We started introducing ourselves, and I told them that I am a paralegal at a corporate immigration law firm. One of the ladies immediately started saying that I must have have opinions on the new Arizona law, and I basically said that yes, I do have some opinions without expanding further. I didn't really feel like getting into politics at the dinner table. Then she and the lady next to her starting talking about how awful it was, etc., so I decided to add some reality to the conversation. I told them that US law actually already requires anybody who is here as an immigrant or temporary worker to carry evidence that they are here legally, so the Arizona law really isn't changing much.
The first lady then said, Exactly! They are just using this law to persecute people. She went on a bit, then I tried to clarify and said that really the law is just saying that they have the right to enforce the current laws. Somehow she continued to misunderstand me, and she and the lady next to her started talking about how terrible it would be if this law started coming to other states. I gave up that point.
I can only assume that she had assumed that I would be against the law, and therefore took everything I said as being against the new law.