Posted on 04/17/2013 1:21:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The immigration bill senators introduced Wednesday bans racial profiling by federal law enforcement officers in most routine encounters, such as traffic stops.
Under current federal law and court precedents, racial discrimination is illegal — but there is no specific ban on racial profiling by federal officers.
But buried inside the 844-page Senate immigration bill is a section specifically prohibiting the use of race or ethnicity as a factor in “routine or spontaneous law enforcement decisions, such as ordinary traffic stops.”
Still, that language already represents a compromise. An earlier draft of the bill, reviewed by The Washington Times, had applied specifically to all immigration law enforcement agents at the Homeland Security Department and had banned profiling on country of national origin as well as race and ethnicity.
The head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, the labor union that represents immigration agents and officers, said that would have ended federal immigration law enforcement altogether....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Federal officials don’t make “traffic stops”. They screen who gets on an airplane.
Federal officials don’t make “traffic stops”. They screen who gets on an airplane.
The traitors are really ‘going for it’.
Really? ever been through a border checkpoint near Mexico? I believe La Migre are Feds.
It's a misleading red herring thrown in by some dishonest drafters.
They want people to think this is about the supposed "driving while black" police stops.
Legally, you can pretty much ignore the "such as..." phrase. It doesn't limit the preceding language.
The important language is that ICE and the Border Patrol would not be allowed to use ethnicity in routine law enforcement decisions.
The problem is that they need to be able to do that to do their job.
To take a hypothetical, if our illegal problem was 90% Chinese people and Chinese people were 5% of the population, then they should focus their resources to a large extent on Chinese people. But under this standard, they should focus only 5% of their effort on Chinese people.
It's a way by the Left to make it legally impossible to control the Mexican border. The Republicans agreeing to this have been snookered again.
I stopped you because your tail light was out, not because you're Mexican. Is that an ordinary traffic stop?
We're so screwed.
. . . because we all know that someone getting their feelings hurt over racial profiling is far more serious than keeping gang banging criminals out of the country . . .
I wonder if there's anything buried in the 844 pages about closing the border????
Didn't think so.
>> 844-page Senate immigration bill
A morass of confusion by design to mean anything the tyrants want it to mean.
From my observation, persons who do not speak English as a first language and are suspected of being from Mexico (legally or illegally) are sometimes cut loose (where they might normally be tested for DWI) IF there is suspicion that they may possibly be here illegally. Officers don't want to open that can of worms.
Ok, you liberal morons, if a white guy commits a crime I want all people of color stopped and frisked. /sarc
Profiling should and MUST be used by law enforcement. Liberals certainly love a tossed salad over the melting pot.
Score one for the illegals.
So do we now have to stop an equal number of all races and genders as they run north across the Mexican border?
How about “national” profiling. There’s a chance he’s a Mexican national if he looks like a Mexican.
so they’re going stop going after white, Christian males?
If you are on the lookout for a Middle Eastern terrorist, you really won’t check out the blond, white guy, will you?
If you are looking for narcoterrorists from Latin American, are you looking for a bunch of white guys, of Chinese, or Eskimos?
Profiling is nothing but a composite guide to be used to look for known types of real or potential criminals.
Most 80 year old grannies are not profiled as mass murderers except by the TSA.
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