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Equally disturbing is what will happen in the mind of the policeman. The police talk today about how they do not wish to, and will not, engage in racial profiling. Yet faced with the option of using common sense and compassion, or harassing a person who has done nothing wrong, a particularly sinister aspect of Arizona's new immigration law will be hanging over his head. He can be personally sued, by anyone, for failing to enforce this inhumane new act.
I recognize that Arizona has become a widening entry point for illegal immigration from the South. The wave has brought with it rising violence and drug smuggling.
But a solution that degrades innocent people, or that makes anyone with broken English a suspect, is not a solution. A solution that fails to distinguish between a young child coming over the border in search of his mother and a drug smuggler is not a solution.
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Abominations such as apartheid do not start with an entire population suddenly becoming inhumane. They start here.
Maybe Desmond can get his tutu to the US to enforce immigration laws...
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ATLANTA (AP) - Federal agents say they have arrested 596 immigrants with criminal records during a three-day immigration enforcement sweep across the Southeast.
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She said three of the people arrested this week had been convicted of murder and 144 were convicted on assault charges.
Equally disturbing is what will happen in the mind of the policeman. The police talk today about how they do not wish to, and will not, engage in racial profiling. Yet faced with the option of using common sense and compassion, or harassing a person who has done nothing wrong, a particularly sinister aspect of Arizona's new immigration law will be hanging over his head. He can be personally sued, by anyone, for failing to enforce this inhumane new act.
I recognize that Arizona has become a widening entry point for illegal immigration from the South. The wave has brought with it rising violence and drug smuggling.
But a solution that degrades innocent people, or that makes anyone with broken English a suspect, is not a solution. A solution that fails to distinguish between a young child coming over the border in search of his mother and a drug smuggler is not a solution.
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Abominations such as apartheid do not start with an entire population suddenly becoming inhumane. They start here.
Equally disturbing is what will happen in the mind of the policeman. The police talk today about how they do not wish to, and will not, engage in racial profiling. Yet faced with the option of using common sense and compassion, or harassing a person who has done nothing wrong, a particularly sinister aspect of Arizona's new immigration law will be hanging over his head. He can be personally sued, by anyone, for failing to enforce this inhumane new act.
I recognize that Arizona has become a widening entry point for illegal immigration from the South. The wave has brought with it rising violence and drug smuggling.
But a solution that degrades innocent people, or that makes anyone with broken English a suspect, is not a solution. A solution that fails to distinguish between a young child coming over the border in search of his mother and a drug smuggler is not a solution.
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Abominations such as apartheid do not start with an entire population suddenly becoming inhumane. They start here.
Who is he and why does his opinion matter? I see you're just going to follow your talking points and just post every link that appears on Media Matters or HuffPo that is in oposition to it. Why don't you explain your view on it and what you personally think about it instead of just spreading propaganda.
Equally disturbing is what will happen in the mind of the policeman. The police talk today about how they do not wish to, and will not, engage in racial profiling. Yet faced with the option of using common sense and compassion, or harassing a person who has done nothing wrong, a particularly sinister aspect of Arizona's new immigration law will be hanging over his head. He can be personally sued, by anyone, for failing to enforce this inhumane new act.
I recognize that Arizona has become a widening entry point for illegal immigration from the South. The wave has brought with it rising violence and drug smuggling.
But a solution that degrades innocent people, or that makes anyone with broken English a suspect, is not a solution. A solution that fails to distinguish between a young child coming over the border in search of his mother and a drug smuggler is not a solution.
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Abominations such as apartheid do not start with an entire population suddenly becoming inhumane. They start here.
If you ever wonder how "civilized" people like the Germans could become implicit and complicit in the holocaust you need only read the responses to the OP's post. He who refuses to learn from history is doomed to repeat it.
Desmond Tutu is a truly great man and a hero who knows from tragic experience what can happen to a nation that begins down the trail of treating some people as less than human beings. He is sounding a timely warning we would do well to heed.
If you can honestly convince yourself that because another human being differs in language or skin color from you they are less deserving of decency and respect then I would suggest that you need to spend some time reading history and examining your soul.
If you ever wonder how "civilized" people like the Germans could become implicit and complicit in the holocaust you need only read the responses to the OP's post. He who refuses to learn from history is doomed to repeat it.
Desmond Tutu is a truly great man and a hero who knows from tragic experience what can happen to a nation that begins down the trail of treating some people as less than human beings. He is sounding a timely warning we would do well to heed.
If you can honestly convince yourself that because another human being differs in language or skin color from you they are less deserving of decency and respect then I would suggest that you need to spend some time reading history and examining your soul.
Oh please, save your breath. COME HERE LEGALLY! You have a problem with that?
Equally disturbing is what will happen in the mind of the policeman. The police talk today about how they do not wish to, and will not, engage in racial profiling. Yet faced with the option of using common sense and compassion, or harassing a person who has done nothing wrong, a particularly sinister aspect of Arizona's new immigration law will be hanging over his head. He can be personally sued, by anyone, for failing to enforce this inhumane new act.
I recognize that Arizona has become a widening entry point for illegal immigration from the South. The wave has brought with it rising violence and drug smuggling.
But a solution that degrades innocent people, or that makes anyone with broken English a suspect, is not a solution. A solution that fails to distinguish between a young child coming over the border in search of his mother and a drug smuggler is not a solution.
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Abominations such as apartheid do not start with an entire population suddenly becoming inhumane. They start here.
1. Tutu doesn't get a vote.
2. Tutu is empty handed in solutions.
3. The police state he describes are not permitted or sanctioned by this law, or any law on our books (save for enemy combatant status that we're trying to get in line with habeas corpus for years now).
4. The interpretation he's painting has no bearing on the actual legislation proposed.
Equally disturbing is what will happen in the mind of the policeman. The police talk today about how they do not wish to, and will not, engage in racial profiling. Yet faced with the option of using common sense and compassion, or harassing a person who has done nothing wrong, a particularly sinister aspect of Arizona's new immigration law will be hanging over his head. He can be personally sued, by anyone, for failing to enforce this inhumane new act.
I recognize that Arizona has become a widening entry point for illegal immigration from the South. The wave has brought with it rising violence and drug smuggling.
But a solution that degrades innocent people, or that makes anyone with broken English a suspect, is not a solution. A solution that fails to distinguish between a young child coming over the border in search of his mother and a drug smuggler is not a solution.
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Abominations such as apartheid do not start with an entire population suddenly becoming inhumane. They start here.
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oh huffinstuff ,of course.
