[Video]: author of AZ immigration law doesn’t even know what’s in it

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Thanks to Immigration Talk with a Mexican American for sounding the alarm off on this.  Watch Senator Huppenthal squirm as he falsely states that this new law does not legalize racial profiling (it in fact, does legalize racial profiling because it forces police officers to stop someone if they have “reasonable suspicion” of someone looking like an “illegal”, which can be dangerously interpreted as anything the police arbitrarily chooses, for ex. if someone merely looks brown). See for yourself: incredibly, it appears Sen. Huppenthal does not even know what was in his own bill:


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I’ll add to this by repeating what I have said on this previous post of mine:

…it seems that the focus right now is in how this law will lead to unprecedented racial profiling. While that is important to point out, the topic of how this law will probably lead to an increase in crime rates is getting lost in the media coverage.  When you talk about this with your friends, be sure to point out how this law will destroy the Arizona police’s ability to work with the immigrant community to report and combat crime because all trust between the two parties will be destroyed.

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  • ron

    I watched this last night on Hardball. You almost could make a drinking game on the multiply repeated phrase “murder rate was 250 in 2006 and has dropped to 125″. It seems that was the only statistic he memorized.

  • http://www.fairgift.co.uk/ Fair Trade

    Senator Huppenthal – how on earth do people this dumb get to represent other people… no thinking person would trust Huppenthal to represent a hamster let alone humans.

  • Eloise DeSpain

    I am a third generation native Arizonan, born and raised in the Barrio of Tucson. My grandmother was born in Sonora (Arizona) during a time before Arizona was a state (1912) and before the Gadsen Purchase. She was born at home and she never had a birth certificate or a Social Security number as she was a self employed widow who worked at home doing laundry for anglos. She raised 5 sons all of whom attended the University of Arizona and received advanced degrees in various fields of science. She was my rock and my compass until she died at the age of 92. I would go to jail before I would ever consider telling this hard working, highly ethical woman that she would have to leave the state of Arizona……………to go where, and to what?
    I am sick and tired of the Republicans in Arizona, and for that matter the whole entire country. No one ever mentions the statue of Liberty or Ellis Island which is where and what the other half of my family had to endure, the baths of lye and disinfectant, the name changes, the forced inscription.
    This is crazy, we have lost our moral compass and I am deeply sadened by it. Who do these people think they are? This Senate Bill 1070 does nothing but set civil rights in this country back 100 years. I’m just glad that I still have the right to vote, but that might be next! Wake up America.