On Sun, 02 May 2010 14:47:07 -0400, Warp wrote:

>   Maybe I'm being dense here, but I still don't get it.

There is a difference between "we have a specific crime that we are 
looking for suspects for" and "we are doing random checking to see if 
someone might have committed a crime".

To use your rape example, suppose instead of "we're looking for a white 
male because of this specific case we're looking into" the police started 
by collecting DNA samples from all white males just *in case* a crime 
were committed.

That's the difference.  What the Arizona law does is not tie the act of 
"being an illegal immigrant" to a specific instance of a crime.

Does that make sense?

Jim

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