Racial profiling?
The first I remember hearing of profiling of any kind was from the Georgia Highway Patrol. One officer, over a period of a few years, developed a profile of the average drug runner, a person or persons who used the interstate highway system to transport vast amounts of illegal drugs through Georgia on its way to points north. A suspect matching 3 or 4 profile points, including an infraction such as speeding, would be stopped and as the officer spoke to the driver and looked inside the car at what might then be in plain view, additional profile points were matched until the officer had probable cause to believe the driver was involved in some illegal activity.
Most don't realize how strong the term probable cause is in law enforcement, nor its many applications. Simply put, it is the point of law in which police will temporarily suspend your civil rights, and any other rights you might think you have, while they attempt to prove you have broken the law.The Georgia Patrol officer, by the way, racked up a remarkable number of drug-related arrests, scores of convictions and his actions resulted in millions of dollars worth of illegal drugs never making it to the streets. But I digress.
I personally take great offense with the rhetorical comparison of immigration enforcement officers, who legally and with due process, took into custody persons who entered this country illegally and/or under false pretenses, with Nazi soldiers who participated in nothing less than attempted genocide. There is a vast difference, but that wouldn't fit the agenda of the Hispanic activists who demonstrate their total disregard for the truth, the facts, history and the laws of this nation as they seek to usurp the law of the land they claim as their own and further inflame a seemingly incurable situation.
Yes, America was built largely upon the blood and sweat of immigrants, but the Hispanic activists fail to mention those immigrants they so proudly and loudly hail all stopped at the border to register and then worked to learn the language and become legal and contributing members of this society. They didn't slip into the country under the cover of darkness and deceit to demand we learn their native language and adopt our laws to accomodate their presence here.
And when did Mexican and Latin American become racial descriptions?
I don't think the threats of economic upheaval will serve the best interests of these Hispanic activists or their cause. Nor do I consider them valid. In fact, if upper-class Americans were forced to pay a legal wage for lawn service and babysitting, it would have a positive effect on the economy. Perhaps most of that money would stay in this country, and that is certainly not something the Mexican government favors.
Some future administration will have to correct the vast problems created by not only by the indifference of current and previous administrations, but also by the illegal aliens who, by their own actions, placed themselves, their families and, for that matter, all of us in this situation. Afterall, they weren't exactly brought here against their will.
How refreshing it would be if occasionally those who raise their voices against the United States to assign blame for their situation would take a closer look at their own house and perhaps accept some of the responsibility.
Racial profiling indeed.
Most don't realize how strong the term probable cause is in law enforcement, nor its many applications. Simply put, it is the point of law in which police will temporarily suspend your civil rights, and any other rights you might think you have, while they attempt to prove you have broken the law.The Georgia Patrol officer, by the way, racked up a remarkable number of drug-related arrests, scores of convictions and his actions resulted in millions of dollars worth of illegal drugs never making it to the streets. But I digress.
I personally take great offense with the rhetorical comparison of immigration enforcement officers, who legally and with due process, took into custody persons who entered this country illegally and/or under false pretenses, with Nazi soldiers who participated in nothing less than attempted genocide. There is a vast difference, but that wouldn't fit the agenda of the Hispanic activists who demonstrate their total disregard for the truth, the facts, history and the laws of this nation as they seek to usurp the law of the land they claim as their own and further inflame a seemingly incurable situation.
Yes, America was built largely upon the blood and sweat of immigrants, but the Hispanic activists fail to mention those immigrants they so proudly and loudly hail all stopped at the border to register and then worked to learn the language and become legal and contributing members of this society. They didn't slip into the country under the cover of darkness and deceit to demand we learn their native language and adopt our laws to accomodate their presence here.
And when did Mexican and Latin American become racial descriptions?
I don't think the threats of economic upheaval will serve the best interests of these Hispanic activists or their cause. Nor do I consider them valid. In fact, if upper-class Americans were forced to pay a legal wage for lawn service and babysitting, it would have a positive effect on the economy. Perhaps most of that money would stay in this country, and that is certainly not something the Mexican government favors.
Some future administration will have to correct the vast problems created by not only by the indifference of current and previous administrations, but also by the illegal aliens who, by their own actions, placed themselves, their families and, for that matter, all of us in this situation. Afterall, they weren't exactly brought here against their will.
How refreshing it would be if occasionally those who raise their voices against the United States to assign blame for their situation would take a closer look at their own house and perhaps accept some of the responsibility.
Racial profiling indeed.
posted by noozguy at 11:24 AM
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