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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Not necessarily. The problem will come with stating articulable suspicion that the person being detained has committed a crime, if all the police can say is "well, he looked like he might be from Mexico."
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Yeah, I think the points about discrimination and racial/ethnic profiling went way over Ghostwriter's and PiKA2001's heads:
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
I think we should sit back and see how this ends up being enforced. I don't believe that cops are going to start pulling over hispanics just to see if they are here illegally, I think they will do immigration checks in conjunction with criminal history checks when they already have a subject for DWI or assault or whatever infraction/misdemeanor.
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We can't predict the future but we can look at what has happened more often than not when such laws and practices exist. If the law doesn't outline the do's and don'ts of it while acknowledging how it can be mishandled (I'm not saying laws necessarily do this), that gives the power and discretion to law enforcement--sounds familiar.
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