Defenders of AZ law: a rebuttal

By Ruben Navarrette, UNION-TRIBUNE COLUMNIST
Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.

If Arizona’s new immigration law is supposed to be the best thing since warm tortillas, why do supporters have to prop it up by engaging in falsehoods and scare tactics? Let me count the ways:

• The law bans racial profiling.
Truth: Racial profiling is already banned by federal statute, yet it happens. The Arizona law requires that once local and state police make contact with someone over an alleged infraction, they must determine legal status if they have “reasonable suspicionâ€