Tag: illegal immigrants
Welcome To Arizona. Prepare To Be Stopped & Searched If You're Not White.
MayorBob.
Posted to Politics on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 07:49:04 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Racial profiling is a nasty business. It means that if you are black or brown, you are more likely to be stopped, questioned and searched by the police. It means your civil liberties are less by virtue of your skin color. When the profiling becomes blatant and offensive enough, it's time to go to court, as happened with Arizona back in 2001. Rather than drag out things, the state Department of Public Safety (DPS) reached a settlement (pdf doc) in 2006 with plaintiffs, agreeing to end racial profiling. They also agreed to collect data on racial and ethnic breakdowns of traffic stops and arrests. Two years after swearing to play nice and not profile, DPS faces renewed charges of racial profiling -- charges backed up by the data collected by their officers.
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NY Governor Does 180 On Licenses To Illegals
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 02:42:21 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
New York Governor Elliot Spitzer has rescinded his plan to give illegal aliens a drivers license, in the face of excruciating grass roots pressure which has seen his popularity drop to near President Bush levels.
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