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Originally Posted by Anonymous Member
They can also do it for suspected bank robbers, suspected drug dealers, suspected rapists and other suspected criminals. What is your point?
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You do understand that they can ask for proof of citizenship and detain anyone for clarifications without any indication that the person committed a crime, right?
In other words, the law allows law enforcement to ask for papers or id from anyone they have a "reasonable suspicion" of being in the US illegally. Now, being in the US illegally is a matter of status. Unless they saw someone cross the border, or immediately by the border, I've yet to understand how anyone can have a "reasonable suspicion" that another person is here illegally without unfairly burdening an ethnic group more than others.
And the support for this law comes with the tacit support of those who know it will involve racial profiling. After all, just look at the difference between the levels of support this law has and a national id law has.
Because if the matter is really to weed out illegal immigration, then a national ID is much more relevant than having a system that treats driver's licenses from some states as enough proof, while from others as insufficient, and that allows LEOs to ask for papers from one group of people, but not the other.