Thoughts on Racism and Illegal Immigration

I've been reading some articles on the new AZ law and have some thoughts to share:




If you want to exterminate any aspect of racial profiling; make sure no actions are ever committed that would insinuate racial motivation, then this is what we have to resort to:

1) We cannot ever arrest, accuse, or imprison an unequal amount of people from each race. If 20 white people are pulled over for a traffic violation in a day and 19 hispanics have already been pulled over, then we have to pull over exactly 1 more hispanic by the end of the day, no more no less, despite the severity.

2) We have to assign every single person a defining race, which will have to be very generic for logistic purposes. It doesn't matter if you're from Mexico or Brazil, you're in the same group. If you're from Spain or Portugal, you get thrown in the European group, even if your family has been here for 180 years. If you're from a mixed race family, then we have to determine exactly which race is most dominant in order to classify you.

3) We have to have an equal amount of inmates from each race in prison. If we bring in 2 extra Asian Americans, then we have to go out and "find" 2 more of every other race, maiking up crimes if we have to in order to preserve equality. There must also be an equal amount of guards from each race and a complex matrix to make sure that each inmate shares an equal amount of time with inmates from each race to avoid segregation.

4) Every single person must carry at least 3 forms of documentation to provide authorities to show that they are legal immigrants upon asking, including those from the Native American group. If an officer pulls over a Native American and asks for documentation, he must then spend the rest of his day meticulously finding someone from every other racial group to pull over and question, even if said officer lives in a remote Wyoming village. Said officer must immediately be fired and replaced if he/she fails to meet the racial quota by the end of the day for being a bigot.

5) I could go on, but you get the picture. I'm not saying racism and profiling don't exist, but if we accuse everyone out there of being racist and profiling a certain race without looking at the context of the situation, these are the kind of reforms we have to look forward to. Sometimes pulling over a dark-skinned person and inquiring about their legal status, in a state that has an apparent problem with illegal Hispanics, isn't so much racial profiling as it is logic. And these legals getting swept up, are they being beaten and imprisoned indefinately, or are they simply being inconvenienced? If I got asked for my ID by a black police officer who wanted to make sure I wasn't an illegal from Ireland, I seriously doubt I would throw such a fuss about it