Posted on 05/02/2010 9:48:51 AM PDT by Steelfish
May 02, 2010 Clinton Says Arizona Immigration Law Invites Racial Profiling FOXNews.com
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday said that Arizona's immigration law invites racial profiling, in one of the toughest statements made to date by an Obama Cabinet member about the controversial state policy that has revived national debate about illegal immigration.
Clinton said the law was "clearly a result of frustration" in the state over the difficulty of securing the border and stopping the flow of illegal immigration. But she said immigration law enforcement is the purview of the federal government, not the states, and condemned the policy itself as flawed.
"It is written so broadly that if you were visiting in Arizona and you had an accent and you were a citizen from my state of New York, you could be subjected to the kind of inquiry that ... this law permits," she told NBC's "Meet the Press."
Asked whether the law invites racial profiling, she said: "I don't think there's any doubt about that."
The Arizona policy would make illegal immigration a state crime and empower local law enforcement to question people about their immigration status and require them to show documentation or face arrest.
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Racist police alert.
Shilary has either not read the law, or she is deliberately pandering to racist Mexican illegals to score cheap political points as usual.
Bill or Hilary Clinton, don't make no difference. They are both inveterate liars.
Your problem, Winston, is that you are insane. You haven’t taken the time and hard work required to be sane.
One more time: when Inner Party members say anything that might arguably result in inflaming passions, in any event that is patriotic dissent. Remember that.
However, if outer party members—peasants, `bitter clingers’ and the like: if they say they disagree with, for example, axioms such as “freedom is slavery”—well, that is hate speech, pure and simple, and it must be severely quashed with more patriotic dissent.
Are you ready now? Again Winston, how many fingers? (holding up hand, reaching for dial)
She makes this statement without any hint of shame or apology for the fact that the federal government intentionally refuses to enforce the law. Every day, more and more, I view the federal government as the enemy.
I’ve never been disturbed by profiling. It’s how the police limit their suspect pools. Most ‘serial killers’ are white men. Most terrorist are Muslim. Most gang members are black or Hispanic. Most white collar crime is committed by 50 something white dudes. Most prostitutes are women. Most illegal aliens are Mexican. None of this upsets me. In fact, if the police didn’t ‘profile’ they’d be stupid idiots and wasting a lot of time.
The police should never pull folks over for ‘looking Mexican’. But, if the police have a reasonable reason to be talking to you and you’re not a citizen, than too damn bad. If I was wondering around the country of Germany or Japan or Mexico for that matter with no official status, I’d expect the exact same treatment from the police. This is common sense.
Arizona should simply state that they are enforcing the very same laws that Mexico has on its books. Case closed....until the feds actually do their job!!
The only difficulty in securing the border with Mexico is the Federal Governments lack of interest in doing so.
Believe me we could close her up so tight a rat couldnt come across if we wanted to.
Hillary is an “illegal immigrant” to New York. MY STATE?
LOL - to Hillary, everything is the purview of the federal government, so there's really nothing to parse here...
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