Posted on 06/05/2010 5:40:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A California Republican congressman on Friday would not apologize for a comment about immigrants he made in April in the context of Arizona's controversial new immigration law.
The law requires that state law enforcement officials ask for identification from people they suspect are in the country illegally if they are stopped for other reasons. Critics say that could lead to racial profiling of Latinos.
Rep. Brian Bilbray -- a supporter of the law -- was asked on MSNBC in late April how officers could identify illegal immigrants without using ethnic characteristics.
"They will look at the kind of dress they wear," he said. "There is different type of attire, there is different type of -- right down to the shoes, right down to the clothes. But mostly by behavior."
Immigrants-rights protesters gathered outside Bilbray's district office on Friday and demanded an apology, according to San Diego 6.
The congressman told the network he would not apologize:
Bilbray spoke exclusively with San Diego 6 and when asked to give an apology he said, "Apology for what?"
Bilbray says he's done nothing inappropriate, that his comments come from years of experience interacting with the Border Patrol. "Look, if you were raised along the border like I was -- if you had as much interaction with border patrol agents as I have -- you'd know that there's a whole lot of things that maybe the general public doesn't know about."
WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND .. unless it’s NOT being UNDERSTOOD ON PURPOSE ..??
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It’s all about buffaloing the ignorant, and the young.
>> It’s all about buffaloing the ignorant, and the young.
Well said.
This is our country. We speak English here.
Brian Bilbray, Darrell Issa and Duncan D. Hunter are 3 of the 5 Congressmen here in San Diego and great Conservatives.
Brian Bilbray, a Republican former mayor of Imperial Beach who, in the 1980s, commandeered a bulldozer and shoveled sewage on the beach back into Mexico
skeeter, Bilbray won’t back down. I’m from his home town. Once when Mexican sewerage was coming across the San Diego border Bilbray rented a skiploader, went out on his own, built a dirt berm, and then used the loader bucket to shove the sewerage back to Mexico. Bilbray has had this same aggressive personality since he was a teenager.
I think you’re right.
Just like the same types who always say “it’s un-Constitutional, when they are well aware that most of the people they are talking to HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS.
Good for Brian Bilbray. I’ll remember this guy should he ever run for higher office.
Welcome to FRee Republic, and thank you for expressing your personal knowledge of the Congressman.
Just like the same types who always say “it’s un-Constitutional, when they are well aware that most of the people they are talking to HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS.
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Like a lib I used to share and office with: He was shocked that “separation of church and state” are not in the Constitution.
Thank You.
Thank You.
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