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Old 05-20-2010, 03:07 PM   #15 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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Originally Posted by dogzilla View Post
So let law enforcement in Arizona stop every single person who they spot heading north from the Mexico border. Or randomly stop every 10th car heading north. Or some other similarly racially neutral way of doing this.
It's my understanding that nothing like this was built into the law, and I think that's the problem. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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That should satisfy the US Atty general who apparently decided the constitutionality of this law based on what he read in the newspaper and not by actually reading the law.
He was apparently making statements based on what others have been saying---others being the newspaper and television sources he trusts. He didn't make a judgement or challenge based on that information, and I don't think he would have.

Though it just might satisfy him if it were built into the law.
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