Arizona Governer Jan Brewer says "charges that the new Arizona Immigration Reform law will lead to racial profiling are “just pure rhetoric.”
Wikipedia refers to racial profiling as : the "use by law enforcement personnel of an individual’s race or ethnicity as a factor in articulating reasonable suspicion to stop, question or arrest an individual, unless race or ethnicity is part of an identifying description of a specific suspect for a specific crime." [1] It is often confused with the more comprehensive offender profiling. The practice has became particularly controversial in the United States due to resulting violations of civil rights."
I have two female friends that currently live in Phoenix. They're blonde, with blue eyes. They're Swedish. Their work visa expired 3 years ago. They had to quit their job. They love it here in the U.S. They live in Phoenix (illegally) with a friend, a female, who is Mexican-American. 2nd generation, American, born and raised in Madison,Wisconsin, she lives in Phoenix, working as a teacher.
Say, they're out some where, and the cops see them. And now that the above law has passed-
Of those 3, who will the cops in Arizona ask to show identification and proof of American citizenship?
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If the police office is smart, he/she should ask all three, so that no one could say racial profiling was a factor. But the operative word is “smart.” If they are out individually, the Mexican – American is my choice.
the idea of being “smart” or not shouldn’t even come into play. No matter how smart one is, you cannot visually tell if someone was born in the state or 50 miles away in another country. That’s the greatest thing about this melting pot of a country. People come from all over the world…or their parents could have and they were born here. there’s no way to know…
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