Warp wrote:
>   In fact, what I have done is to oppose the idea that law enforcement asking
> random people for their ID 

Even that wouldn't raise the outcry we have here. But police aren't being 
told to check *random* people. They're not stopping every tenth person 
driving past, like they do with the sobriety checkpoints. They're stopping 
people who *look* like an illegal immigrant.

They are using a profile. They aren't using "random". Stopping "random" 
people isn't anything to do with "If 90% of the lawbreakers are X, then you 
should check people who are X", regardless of what X is.

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