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Originally Posted by turbotalon1g
Oklahoma wants to adopt this awesome law too.
Like I don't get pulled over enough already. I'm down with keeping useless immigrants out, but thats like saying lets rid MN of all the swedes, guess who is going to get pulled over then.
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Originally Posted by Matt D.
If you are here legally then I don't see what the problem is.
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Originally Posted by A//// Guy
I dunno but if I were legal and looked mexican and I got stopped every other day to check if im legal or not, Id probably get pissed.
The profiling thing kinda bugs me, even though there really is no way around it. We need to control our borders more, it should be on a federal level, not just a state level.
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Edit: I quoted these ^^, but then read on and agreed with most said in the thread.. so stopped quoting :P.
I understand the reasoning, the issue is how it's used and regulated(nearly impossible). I'm with most in this thread saying they are two sided on it. I agree with most said here as well. The issue is, as racial profiling gets tighter and tighter, it becomes a slippery slope and worries a lot of us about where it is all heading(or could head). One more step in a certain direction is just one step closer to an uncomfortable/scary scenario for our future.
Being a Muslim(even though I am Indian and not an "Arab"), and not being white is already a pain in the arse these days traveling(air travel). The fact that I know for a fact that I will be looked at suspiciously by everyone at the airport(travelers as well as workers), then to know "the call" will be made on the black phone at the counter when I'm checking in(and I'm at the counter because most self check-in kiosk's will deny me/my name when trying to check in), then to know I will be "randomly" searched when going through the security lines, and then to know/feel that a lot of people give me looks on the plan and in the gate seating area just makes air travel non appealing anymore. It is unnecessary for me and all other non whites to feel this kind of stress and disrespect when travelling.
There is an Arab stand up comic who jokes that Arabs are the new "Black's" in America.. It's pretty much true. So looking like I could be an Arab was bad enough, now looking like I could be Mexican is just one more to add to the list.
BTW, going through the legal immigration process is a HUGE pain in the arse as well. I've been going through it for 4.5 years now with my wife(she is from India) and it's still not finished. It's just a BS system for those who are doing it the right way.. Seems easier to do it the other way.
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