Does Arizonas Illegal Immigration Crackdown Amount to Racial Profiling?
Does Arizonas Illegal Immigration Crackdown Amount to Racial Profiling? Monday April 19, 2010#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) This week Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is expected to sign the toughest legislation to curb illegal immigration in the country. But opponents of the proposed laws–which would allow police to ask anyone they reasonably suspect of being in the country illegally to cough up papers–say it will lead to racial profiling. “How can you ‘reasonably believe’ someone is an undocumented immigrant if you are a local cop?” Muzaffar A. Christi of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington pointed out in the New York Times. “Federal agents have training on that, but local cops don’t know that,” he continued. If Brewer enacts the proposed legislation, Arizona would become the first state in the nation to allow local law enforcement to determine people’s im
