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Originally Posted by Alumiyum
I'm white, but am asked very frequently if I am Hispanic or part Hispanic. (As far as we know we're Scotch-Irish, but no one's bothered to research family history, so I probably got all the genes from some ancestor who very well might have been Hispanic, but it was past great-great grandparents.) I'm willing to bet I'd get stopped, and I'm certainly more likely to than a "lily-white blonde".
I agree with the concept, I just don't agree with how this is probably going to play out. And I certainly don't carry a birth certificate or ssn card. I feel like if this were done right, it could be productive. But it would be naive to think this isn't going to result in racial profiling. (Or in carding anyone with an accent).
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Exactly. The whole problem is not what it would do to illegal immigrants but what it would do to legal immigrants and American citizens. If you are really interested in cutting into the problem, there has got to be a way to tackle the problem without the real potential of discriminating against a minority population that has done nothing wrong.
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