“Have it your way Snark. Don’t bitch the next time you have to take sick
kid to the emergency room and you have to wait hours because it’s filled with illegals.”
You’re right about that, but I’d rather bitch about that than give up our rights as a free society and turn the USA into a 3rd world police state. It’s not against the law to drive a beater car, or not have any money or be Mexican. It’s always a bad idea to give the govt. or their agents (cops) any more authority than they already have.
The cop you mentioned that had the great record busting drug runners. How many innocent people did he shake down, bully, or intimidate in the process of getting some drug runners. I’ve never been in any trouble with the law in any way, but I do have long hair and I do drive a van, and I have been shaken down at least a dozen times since I’ve been grown. Never been arrested after a shake down, but I have been threatened and strip searched and detained and all that crap. I don’t think it’s a good trade off to give up personal freedom because somebody, somewhere is getting away with breaking a law. It’s not in my best interests to trade my (or yours, or anyones) civil rights just so somebody somewhere doesn’t get away with something.
Something you have to remember, that while a citizen of hispanic descent 'may' get tagged occasionally, it doesn't take very long to detemine whether they're worth investigating further or not. Finally, no I wouldn't mind getting pulled over if it meant that we could finally get rid of these criminals. The problem is that bad and this government refuses to do anything about it even though these people have no Constitutional rights whatsoever in my book.
I sympathize with your personal situation, but from the way you describe it, I don't think you were getting pulled over for suspicion of being illegal....