Thread: Racial profiling legal says AZ prof

Racial profiling legal says AZ prof

One of the go-to experts in the SB 1070 debate has been Professor Gabriel Chin at the University of Arizona.

In Tuesday’s Washington Post, Chin and University of California Davis Professor Kevin Johnson argue that the U.S. Supreme Court and the Arizona State Supreme Court have allowed racial profiling when it comes to immigration enforcement. (Read their essay here.)

According to the professors, “Supporters and opponents of SB 1070 assume that racial profiling is unconstitutional, largely because many Americans believe that it ought to be. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court has approved the racial profiling permitted – indeed encouraged – by SB 1070.â€

Arizona has a majority Hispanic population. How can pulling over a hispanic for a traffic violation be profiling?

It is a sad time in this nations history. The Federal Government willfully REFUSES to do its duty to protect citizens and now is trying to stop the States from protecting citizens too. Who will be there for us?

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"Supporters and opponents of S.B. 1070 assume that racial profiling is unconstitutional, largely because many Americans believe that it ought to be. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court has approved the racial profiling permitted -- indeed encouraged -- by S.B. 1070."

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-205692.html

Arizona has a majority Hispanic population. How can pulling over a hispanic for a traffic violation be profiling?

That is not true not even New Mexico which has a larger per centage has a Hispanic majority population.

Demographics of Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1 Race and ethnicity. 1.1 Religion. 2 Other; 3 References; 4 External links ...
In addition, Hispanics and Latinos made up 29.0% of Arizona's population. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Arizona


Hispanics in New Mexico were 42.1 percent of the total state population, the highest proportion for any state.
Hispanics were. 12.5 percent (the national ...
www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-3.pdf

Racial and ancestral makeup

According to 2008 American Community Survey estimates,[6] California's population is:

42.3% White (not including White Hispanic)
36.6% are Hispanic or Latino (of any race)
12.5% Asian
6.7% Black or African American
2.6% Multiracial
1.2% American Indian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California

OK, I misspoke, or typed. Sorry. Maybe I should have referred to the Border areas of the State of Arizona.
Just looking around here in Texas, the number of Hispanics has EXPLODED in recent years. I have to wonder how old your stats are and how do you know all illegal hispanics were counted? Do we assume they all answer the census survey and do it honestly?