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Monday, December 25, 2006

Racial Profiling?

   I ran across this article on Monday evening and it did nothing but piss me off!

By Jim Forsyth
Mon Dec 25,2006

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, with some saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s.

They accused the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of "racial profiling," or selective enforcement against Hispanics, for arresting 1,300 workers on immigration violations in December 12 raids at meatpacking plants in six states.

"We are demanding an end to these immigration raids, where they are targeting brown faces. That is major, major racial profiling, and that cannot be tolerated," said Rosa Rosales, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, at a news conference.  Read This

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   Let me get this right! If our Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement rounds up a group of people that should not even be in this country in the first place, then the poor Hispanics are victims of "racial profiling"?  The last I heard it was the Hispanics that are sneaking across the border into the U.S. Not the Canadians, Jamaicans or the  Jehovah's Witnesses!

   For you assholes that do not know the difference. This is not racial profiling! This is upholding the law of the land! 

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