Sunday, June 06, 2010

Opinion: Ruben Navarrette Jr.: The truth about Arizona's immigration law

This writer lists many false beliefs and the truth about the new immigration law in AZ. Read the whole article to read all of them. - - Donna Poisl

By Ruben Navarrette Jr., San Diego Union-Tribune

If Arizona's new immigration law is supposed to be the best thing since warm tortillas, why do supporters have to prop it up by engaging in falsehoods and scare tactics? Let me count the ways:

The law bans racial profiling. Truth: Racial profiling is already banned by federal statute, yet it happens. The Arizona law requires that once local and state police make contact with someone for an alleged infraction, they must determine legal status if they have "reasonable suspicion" that the person is in the country illegally. It is naive to assume an officer can make that call without taking race into account.
Click on the headline to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.

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