What would Martin Niemoller think about Arizona?

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Just because the law says you can't racially profile doesn't mean it won't happen any more than laws against unethical behavior by our legislators work.

You know why the American government didn't put German immigrants into internment camps like they did for the Japanese immigrants during WWII? Because there were just too dang many of them. If you had walked down an urban street in the southwest recently, you would realize that if the police were using nothing but skin color to determine suspicion, they'd never finish the job.

If this law had been enacted in Ohio, then I'd say yes, there would absolutely be racial profiling going on. Down here, Hispanics are like 30% of the population. Too many to profile on any meaningful generalized level.