If you read the law, then you all ready answered your own examples question. What don't you understand about the words "lawful contact"? The scenario you described does not constitute lawful contact, so you would be fine with your milk in hand taking your casual stroll, even as an illegal. Next time you drive to get your milk with a busted tail light, be prepared. Just because you (as an illegal) are doing one thing and not another, doesn't mean you are not actively engaged in a crime by being here illegally. 

Really? The current Federal Law makes no provision to prevent profiling. The Arizona law does.

You don't understand the US right then, otherwise you'd know they support a strong defense, internally and externally. Besides the agency's are in place now, just not being used effectively. Less illegals also mean less infrastructure (hospital beds, schools and teachers, regular police, prison guards, etc. If there were no illegals in the country ICE could be much smaller. How is this "Big Government"?

So why not let all thieves go free? They are just trying to provide for their families, right? Let me ask you this Arty, would you do something "illegal" that you knew was wrong and you could get caught doing? If your country encouraged you to (Mexico) perhaps you would. Isn't it easier to be a burden on someone else rather than solve your own problems? Mexico illegal immigration laws are much tougher than the US laws. Ever wonder how many Guatemalans were shot by Mexican boarder guards?

You say it will not help the economy. Who pays when an illegal goes to the emergency room (or school, prisons, or uses any other "service")? Here's a hint, it's not their employer. Maybe those employers (who I believe should be fined heavily for each illegal they hire) will need to hire legal residents, who pay federal income tax, and don't send 40% of there income out of the country (billions $$$ annually).

It is a fact that some illegals supplement their "low" wages by dealing drugs or prostitution. How would removing this not reduce crime? Our prisons are full and a large portion of that population are illegals. Also, what about illegals that are robbed or exploited by the people bringing them over?

You can solve the problem by announcing Canada to be a sanctuary for illegals, to further your compassion. They can just pass through the US and go to Canada. I wonder what "free" health care would "cost" if Canada suddenly had 12 million more people to take care of? Is that a price you are willing to pay? It would be cheaper for the US (and safer for illegals) to operate a non-stop train from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. Canada need do nothing but open their loving arms.

Actually, the law does no such thing.  It was carefully written to make sure that you cannot be forced to abrogate your rights.  There is nothing new in the law other than the statement that they will enforce current laws.

That is a bigoted statement (albeit I understand not intentional).  The truth is that the majority of citizens, of all races, are no more affected than you on your daily jog.  There is no threat, desire or intention of keeping anyone down.  There is a threat to maintain the law.  And again the way the law is written, if you are from the UK and here illegally, you are going to get the same treatment as someone from China or El Salvador.

YOu seem to imply that there is a nobility in breaking the law.  Yet the US is probably the most tolerant of illegal aliens of any nation on earth.  They are not deprived of anything while here, until such time as their legal status is determined.  Have you read the laws about the non-citizens of the countries you think are being persecuted, even your own?  I think not.  But you have read the disinformation being propagated by race baiters of this country, so you have jumped to an erroneous conclusion.  Let me re-iterate for you that while Canada does have classes (a weak hold over from the fact you are still subject to the crown), America has never and will never have classes.  And the law cares not care if you are Carlos Helu or Ivan Triponovich.  But the race baiters and bigots of this country have made sure that Mr. Helu is grouped with a dirt farmer in Guadalajara, not because of anything rational, but due simply to their own bigotry.

No, but what it will do, what it is doing is bring the true racists out of the woodwork.  They are the ones that talk the talk, but when it comes to reality, they are as bigoted as David Dukes.  The only difference is they have a D behind their name, and so have been immunized by the press from such revelations in the past.  The law is exposing the underside of true racism due to their own ignorance

Good point!  The law is fixing the federal law.  Arizona is basically stating they will not blindly follow a bad federal law without making sure that it is NOT racist.

Well, unlike Mexico, Canada does not shoot illegals.  But I dare say their treatment is not as well defined as it is in Arizona.  In canada, you have no appeal.  If you are illegal, you get your ass deported fast.