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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
See that's where you are wrong. The new law says that all they need is suspicion that the person is an illegal immigrant. If all this law said was that law enforcement could check immigration status on someone accused of a crime, I don't think I'd have an issue, but that's NOT what this is saying. Police can stop someone presumably minding their own business on a street corner just for seeming to be an illegal immigrant. Now ask yourself what would make someone suspicious as an illegal immigrant then ask yourself how that won't result in racial profiling.
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Yes. Thank you. Perfect explanation. Dumb law, no, WRONG Law.
As an aside to this discussion: The Constitution and the Bill of Rights? Does that sound familiar? "unreasonable search and seizure..." or am I confused?
No one seems able or willing to define "seeming to be an illegal immigrant" in constitutional terms. When that happens, I'll listen.
Or is it (the definition) like pornography ("I can't tell you what it is but I know it when I see it" - and I'll send a Starbucks gift card to the first GCer who tells me the source of that quote)?
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