It's not racial profiling.

Lately it seems like everyone and their mother is up in arms over the Arizona immigration law. I'll just throw it right out there - I love it. I think every one of the 50 states ought to do the same thing. Not that Massachusetts ever would, but I can dream. But everyone seems to be concerned about the same thing - are we going to be racially profiling now? Horrors! Not in tolerant America! Here's the big fat problem with that.

Hispanic isn't a race.

Webster's online dictionary gives this definition:

His·pan·ic   [hi-span-ik]
–adjective
1. Spanish.
2. Latin American: the United States and its Hispanic neighbors.
–noun
3. Also, Hispano. Also called Hispanic American, Hispano-American. An American citizen or resident of Spanish or Latin-American descent.

It's simply not a race. It's an ethnicity, which is differente. So by nature it cannot be racial profiling because it's not based on a race. That said, if we ID'd based on skin color I'd object to that because it's more or less the same thing. But that's not what will happen. We'll ID everyone. "But . . . but . . . America will become a 'show me your papers' country," opponents splutter. Folks, we already are. When Social Security was established, the American people were promised that our number would never be used as identification. So tell me, what do you have to provide for your driver's license, passport, college application, and doctor's visits? Why, your Social Security Number. We already get ID'd all the flipping time, so we might as well get rid of the illegals that drive up crime rates and take jobs. Don't bother challenging that claim or I'll bury you in statistics. And I have personal experience with both.
So what do we do with them after we arrest them? Because I, for one, don't want to clog the jailhouses with the buggers. Easy solution: fly them to Mexico and tell them we'll shoot the next one we see coming to the beach in an inner tube or jumping the border. And do it. Sounds harsh, huh? But the cold fact is that these people are criminals. They have no respect for our country or the rule of law. If they did, they'd get in line like they're supposed to. But they're selfish and lawless. So they do whatever the heck they want without regard for our people or country.

Get them out.


What do you think? Why? Personal experience?


Leah

P.S. I don't hate hispanic people. My roommate for two years in college was hispanic and she was the bomb diggety. I love her to pieces. But she's legal.