Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> No, but the notion that you can pick someone up because they *look* like 
> an illegal immigrant (which BTW violates the 4th amendment right to 
> protection against unreasonable search/seizure) *is* patently racist.

  Why does it have to be racism?

  Imagine that a woman is raped, and the police is immediately called,
and they suspect that the rapist is still in the vicinity. The police
ought to start questioning suspects they find. Male suspects.

  One could argue that only having males as suspects is discrimination,
that suspects should be equally male and female. But that someone would be
a complete idiot. It's 99.999% probable that the rapist was a male, rather
than a woman who raped a woman and was nevertheless mistaken for a man
(that has probably never happened in the history of mankind). Hence it
makes sense for the police to only suspect males and leave females off
the hook. If the police was stupid enough to start detaining females for
suspicion of raping a woman, they would be wasting valuable resources
which would be better used in searching for the actual rapist. After all,
law enforcement has only very limited resources to solve crimes.

  Likewise with illegal immigration: The vast majority of illegal immigrants
don't look like locals. Hence it only makes sense to prioritize the scarce
resources law enforcement has and concentrate on people who don't look like
locals. This is not racism. This is practicality. Questioning people equally
is only going to waste resources, which wastes taxpayers' money, and causes
less crimes to be stopped.

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                                                          - Warp

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