The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

And anti illegal immigration is not racist. I am indeed anti illegal immigration, but am not a racist.

That's true. I'm anti-illegal immigration too (though I suspect I disagree with each other on how the fact it happens anyway should be handled).

However, when you're allowed to someone stop someone simply because you've decided you have a reasonable suspicion that they're in the country illegally I'm going to say that most of the methods for reaching that suspicion are going to be racial and very easily move into racism. I'm guessing that an illegal Irish nanny in Yuma is going to have a lot less reason to be scared of this law than a legal hispanic busboy in Flagstaff.