On 5/1/2010 10:51 AM, Warp wrote:
> Stephen<mca### [at] aoldotcom>  wrote:
>> On 01/05/2010 6:13 PM, Warp wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>> ...
>>>     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.
>>>
>
>> Obviously Finland does not have a large immigrant population, about 1%
>> excluding Finnish Swedes as far as I can make out.
>
>    3%. But I don't understand what that has to do with anything. It still
> doesn't change the fact that immigrants typically tend to look distinctively
> different from natives. Especially illegal ones (because it's rare for
> someone who could pass for a Finn to want to immigrate illegally here).
>
>    I'm pretty sure that a significant percentage of illegal immigrants in
> the US can be distinguished by their looks. If you saw a Finnish person
> there I don't think it would be highest in the list of suspects of illegal
> immigration.
>
>    You can call it racism if you want. That will not change the facts.
>
This is actually not accurate in many cases. Something like 90% of some 
areas of Southern California **do** all look just like the illegals, and 
not because they are all illegals. The same argument was made for going 
after Middle Easterners, instead of whites, and the last, and only two, 
idiots captured trying to blow up planes in the US have been 
***white***. Ok, you could argue its not *quite* the same thing, but 
seriously, ethically, and rationally, you need to at least *try* to be 
neutral about this BS, because some not too bright twit might just let 
through the one, "He don't look like no illegal", that turns out to be a 
serial killer, or something, instead of a guy that takes a menial job 
washing pots at the local restaurant.

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