Warp wrote:
>   Likewise with illegal immigration: The vast majority of illegal immigrants
> don't look like locals. 

Sure they do. We have a huge population of Americans of Mexican descent 
here, as well as a whole raft of people descended from the Mexicans who were 
here before the USA took over California.

There are large areas of the city where Americans who look like they might 
be Mexican outnumber Americans who look like they might be British.

This is the problem. It's not that we'll catch illegal immigrants. It's that 
the police will hassle Americans who look Mexican and not hassle the 
Americans who look British.

Or to put it another way, jump back 180 years. Pass a law in the northern 
part of the USA saying everyone had to prove they aren't an escaped slave. 
Do you think there's any way that wouldn't be considered a racist law today? 
Do you think there's any chance you wouldn't wind up locking up a whole lot 
more innocent black people than innocent white people?

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