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No Racial Profiling?

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I don’t know enough about the situation to know whether this Arizona law that the Governor just signed is good or evil, but I am really confused on his stance that it will not include racial profiling because that is patently illegal. Am I missing something? Aren’t like 99.9% of illegal immigrants in Arizona Hispanic? Is there a huge pipeline from Denmark or Belgium that I don’t know about?

I mean if you are going to arrest people for being illegal immigrants and they are all Hispanic – it would seem like not racially profiling would be a colossal waste of time. Do neither or do both, just don’t play semantics with me.