Reply #32: What I don't understand is YOUR presumption that anyone is denouncing this law [View All]

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because they support illegal immigration.

The denunciation comes because of the obvious racial profiling that is rolled into the bill and the obvious FACT that it will affect people of Hispanic decent to an extremely disproportionate degree.

It's not a suspicion that it's an effort to harass Hispanics here legally, it's a suspicion that all Hispanics will be harassed based merely on a set profile that determines who should or should not be asked for ID.

If you truly believe that this will not target legal residents in disproportionate numbers based on their race, then you either (a) are fooling yourself; or (b) have never spent any significant amount of time in Arizona (I grew up there, lived there for almost 20 years and know what the police there are like).

Once again, it comes back to the adage regarding trading essential liberties for temporary safety. So tell me, do you also support racial profiling of people of Middle-Eastern decent?