Should AG Eric Holder accuse Arizona's immigration laws of "racial profiling" without reading the laws?

The law itself is not discriminatory, but look at what state is writing the law. Who do you think they are going pull over or request federal documents from? The few Asians, possible Russians, maybe a few very dark black guys that look like they may be from Africa, or just those with accents?

Nope, they are going to target hispanics. Maybe a few Native Americans because they look hispanic. There will be a lot of law suits from those that are legally here due to their race and/or color with false arrests, racial profiling, and numerous other complaints.

Watch and see. My husband is an American Citizen and Hispanic by birth. He is 40 yrs old so he is no "anchor" baby.

He has been pulled over so many times for miscellaneous reasons, tail light, blinkers, speeding when standing still, even asked for his papers several times, just a bunch of BS as soon as they allowed our police to do the same thing. The first year it was implemented in North Carolina there were over 500 traffic stops in Charlotte (over 12,000 state wide) just with people with hispanic last names, false arrests, attempt to deport without verifying with INS, and many racially profiled complaints. I had to go to court for my husband one time to prove there was no way he had been speeding pulling out of a restaurant with a 350 diesel pulling a 3 ton front loader on a half ton trailer going to the light at the corner less than 150 ft away.

He also asked to see my husbands "papers"I would like to know how you can be pulling that much weight and go 60 in a 45 in less than 10.5 seconds. I couldn't even do it in my mini van making my tires squeel! I had the officers citation history for the past 60 days pulled and the officers record showed that over 85% of his citations or arrests were of Hispanics or those with Hispanic last names.

I also video taped myself trying to attempt the same thing for the court AND brought in a letter from his boss stating that on that same date he was indeed pulling almost 5 tons at that time in that area. I did not sue I just wanted them to get that officer off the street for a while to prove a point that most of the local police and state troopers were unjustifiably pulling over those that fit the Hispanic profile. The following year there were not that many traffic citations written to Hispanics but it was more balanced.

It took me doing the work and publicizing it through the local media to get the point across that all illegal immigrants in this state are NOT Hispanic and everyone deserves equal and fair treatment under the law, Legally here or not. I did not need a lawyer and submitted my own case to the judge. Thank goodness we had a very impartial judge that day.

Believe me when I say that this will be the same thing. Check the traffic and arrest records next year after this law has had time to roll out, then see how many court cases over racial profiling and the like come to pass. It will be a mess.

It took 4 yrs for the officers in this state to calm down and do the right thing. Now, if someone is arrested and is suspected an illegal, their paper work is run through INS for verification and they are notified. Depending on the crime, they could be deported in 6 to 8 wks at a cost to the tax payers of $12,000 per person or held to do the time in a US prison (tax payer cost of $48,500 per inmate in this state) then deported at an additional cost of $1800 (transportation, court, food).

Those in Arizona are going to have a very hard time with this one. The only reason mostly is because they have 2nd and 3rd generation Hispanics living in their state and if they ask them for their papers what are they going to do? Have to get a passport for their own country?

For each person? That isn't right. That is like asking any other American citizen to do the same, white, black, asian, no matter how long their family has been here or how many generations back their family goes.

I just hope they figure it out before the stuff hits the fan and blows up in their faces.

Interesting how the bill was good as gold as it was written according to Brewer and Co.. Bowing to pressure it's been changed. Seems it wasn't as Constitutional as first thought. It's still piss poor legislation.

New Mexico has an actually good answer to the illegal problem. Putting an ICE office on site in their new detention facility. Hmm.

Arrest a criminal and then ascertain if they are illegal or not. If they are ICE is right there to take control. Rather than having officers making a decision as to whether or not someone should be asked their status.

Considering Brewer needs to get re elected it seems like something she can use as a rallying call.

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