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Originally Posted by ladygreek
It was VERY long ago that freed slaves had to carry pass cards. That is a poor and exaggerated analogy. I don't see it as profiling when someone is stopped for a violation and then can't produce a driver's license or any other proper identification.
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Soror LG, I guess we will have to agree to disagree on this one. I find this analogy very apropos.
In both cases, the suspicion is not based on what someone has done, but what they look like they might be ( a slave as opposed to a FPOC or an illegal immigrant as opposed to a citizen). In the case of the recent law, they are issuing 'clarifications' so that if someone is stopped for a possible violation THEN they can be questioned. Frankly, that is what the current federal law is so why was the state law required! Where Arizona went off track is that there was originally no restriction in this law that the stop must be for a suspected violation.
Correct me if I am wrong but how do you stop someone who might look like they are an illegal immigrant? Even the law's proponents don't even know what an illegal immigrant looks like. In Arizona, they are presumed to look Mexican.
Illegal immigrants come from all countries around the globe. Natural born citizens are from all ethnic backgrounds. You have people like Ken Salazar, current SecInt, who is of Mexican descent but whose family has been in this country since before many Western states were states!
This law sets a dangerous precedent. I pray the current boycott works as well as the boycott over the MLK Holiday worked...only more quickly.
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