Legalizing Racial Profiling? Or Fighting Illegal Immigration? Is There Anything Wrong With This?

[tai38]

By now you have all study of Arizona's attainable new law..yet to be signed by it's governor. The bill would it make it a crime for immigrants to have no alien registration document, and undocumented citizens would be charged with "trespassing" simply for becoming in Arizona. The bill permits police to question and arrest people with no warrant if there is "affordable suspicion" about their immigration status. It would become illegal for people to employ illegal immigrants or to transport them anyplace in the state, even if they are loved ones members. Properly, how about that? Do you like it? Is this the answer? If you decide to rant and rave against this, tell us why. Give us options to this...never just inform us you do not like it. If you say it is unconstitutional, inform us why you believe that.

[Elwood]

Geppetto said: 1 And don't mess around with the topic...just deal with the question! 44 months ago

[Bolton]

[Arvind]

I believe most of those things were already illegal, but police weren't enforcing them - other than Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County. I've heard him on the radio several times saying he was getting a lot of heat for simply enforcing laws that were already on the books in Arizona, and some people didn't like that.I think this is a signal most of Arizona is coming around to his way of thinking. Upwards of a million illegals are flowing through the state, bringing with them crime, drugs and gang violence. One-third of all the prisoners in US jails are illegals, almost 700,000 alone! Something has to be done.

[Milo]

And don't mess around with the topic...just deal with the question!

[Choni]

I see no problem with the police questioning their immigration status. It is for our protection. However, I heard that they were allowed to ask for documentation even without suspicion. In this case it is a violation of their rights.

[Zimra]

Lychnobite said: 2 I support all forms of profiling whether they be racial, sexual or religious. There appears to be a direct conflict of interest between the DHS and the border patrol who are under orders to not do their job because of political pressures. I also believe that 9/11 could have been prevented if more profiling were conducted. It's not such a radical concept for people in this country illegally to be treated like criminals, but to grant them a pass because they are not white is inherently racist. 44 months ago

[Biaiardo]

MorningDew said: 4 I see no problem with the police questioning their immigration status. It is for our protection. However, I heard that they were allowed to ask for documentation even without suspicion. In this case it is a violation of their rights. 44 months ago

[lamarr3]

I support all forms of profiling whether they be racial, sexual or religious. There appears to be a direct conflict of interest between the DHS and the border patrol who are under orders to not do their job because of political pressures. I also believe that 9/11 could have been prevented if more profiling were conducted. It's not such a radical concept for people in this country illegally to be treated like criminals, but to grant them a pass because they are not white is inherently racist.

[Fulbert]

What's wrong with it is that not all illegal immigrants are Hispanic. Thus, while the police will be more able to find and arrest those here illegally(and, yes, if they're breaking one law, they could well be breaking others), there will be other people who still won't be arrested. My oldest sister was briefly engaged to a man who was from Great Britain--illegally. I guess he came here on something or another and merely stayed, continuing to work like any other illegal immigrant, taking jobs from citizens. Then, one day, my sister answers the phone in his house and it's the guy's wife calling him all the way from England. Awkward. Telling. Indicative of the problem. So, is enforcement of the law on darker-skinned folks "discrimination" if each of them is nevertheless breaking the law?  danielpauldavis 44 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.