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Originally Posted by dklassen
I hear what you're saying but I spent the better part of my life 30 miles from the border in San Diego.
Call it profiling or whatever you want but that's just the way it is. Do we really need to search 90 year old grandmothers from Iowa just to be fair to terrorists of a certain origin?
I lived on the "expensive side" of San Diego and you better not leave anything unlocked or unattended or it will disappear and cross the border faster than you can blink. Ask me how I know... numerous times.
Do others commit crimes? Of course they do but if you live close the the border in AZ, CA, TX you pretty much know where to look most of the time.
Crime is out of control and getting worse. Whole sections of the city are basically trashed. It's costing cities and states billions. It's the Federal Government's job to protect our borders. Can you say yet another EPIC FAIL?
Our boarders need to be locked down tight and the illegals rounded up and deported. Yes, show your papers. I'll gladly show mine.
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This is a democracy founded on the rights of the individual. Such a society does not solve the kinds of problems you refer to having occurred on the "expensive side" (read: "privileged"), of San Diego, or anywhere else, by ramping up law enforcement to the level of a police state. It's no different than establishing a military which eventually usurps greater power than the people it is supposed to protect. History has recorded how governments of people always perish with the rise of governments of force. (read: Nazi Germany).
I appreciate your frustration with the fact that there is a real problem with illegal immigration, but you are advocating the serious harassment and total disrespect for the rights of Hispanic citizens who will be swept up in the search for illegals.
And if the whole idea isn't unconstitutional enough, how will the Arizona law facilitate anything but racial profiling? If the Arizona police decide it's too hard to determine who might be an illegal Canadian, perhaps they will have to search out a bunch of blonde Scandinavians to balance out the number of Hispanics in custody.