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Last Friday, ABC News aired a controversial episode as part of its “What Would You Do?” segment in which a hired actor portrayed a security guard who racially profiled a Latino family in Tucson, Arizona. (The family members were also actors.) The purpose of the skit was to record the reactions of various onlookers with a hidden camera…
How incredible are the reactions?
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What a great video. This proves how ridiculous and racist SB1070 is. Despite the “polls” I think most people will not stand for it. SB1070 promotes harassment, period.
The video doesn’t even attempt to comply with the requirements of the Arizona Law. It is a hit piece aimed a belittling something it opposes without the decency of even understanding the underlying law it attacks. There are some legitimate arguments on both sides of this law, this video raises none of them.
Like most pro-illegal immigrant propaganda it is completely rubbish… There is more racial profiling from the racist Naui (harassing old white people) than in Az.
What about the racial profiling of italian immigrants?
I have to agree with Geoff now that I’ve seen the video. SB 1070 isn’t supposed to kick in until law enforcement is investigating a crime, stopping a traffic violator, etc. This is somewhat of a caricature.
What it does do is reflect really well on the regular folks of Tucson. I wonder if this is an especially liberal and/or tolerant part of Arizona, and somewhere else they would have got a different reaction.
Damn, I have to admit there is a very silly carpetbaggerish quality to this guard coming into town and acting that way. These Arizonans behave as though they’ve never seen anything like it, and here he is thinking that he’s bringing the Full Arizona! Well, good on all these bystanders.
Entertaining video. But I don’t think it “says anything” about Arizona’s law.
Vern,
There were many things wrong with AZ’s SB 1070.
1) If you recall, about a week after it was enacted, some of the most egregious examples of unconstitutional provisions were removed because of the protests.
2) When the judge ruled, she took what I think was a balanced approach…She ruled and prevented some of the remaining unconstitutional provisions form taking effect.
3) If you recall, AZ SB 1070 provision also allowed for demanding to know immigration status based on a “Reasonable Suspicion” and not necessarily on “Probable Cause” which already law enforcement possesses as a tool.
This Reasonable Suspicion standard is a much lower standard, and would be opening the door to Ethnic Profiling, as what is reasonable was never fully defined, and left room for Constitutional violations of Citizens and Legal Resident rights.
4) Another important matter, that even if police are first stopping someone on probable cause, for the LOCAL law enforcement to demand immigration papers was in VIOLATION of the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution, where a jurisdictional distinction is made between Federal and State rights and obligations.
Local law enforcement can only properly do this, if they have being trained to do so AND are working in conjunction with FEDERAL authorities, ie through the 287(g) program.
Francisco “Paco”
Don’t get the idea I’m suddenly an SB 1070 fan, I just think this video gave an exaggerated version of what it does. That’s why all the bystanders sort of acted like they were viewing a Martian in their midst.
1) That’s true, gracias a Dios.
2) Es verdad, thank God.
3) Is that still the case? Even so, the scenarios in this video didn’t even show “reasonable suspicion,” just Mexicans minding their own business.
4) All of this is true. I didn’t mean to come across as a defender of SB 1070. I don’t think I did if you re-read my comment.
When the Baby Boomers all retire and there are more folks collecting Social Security than there are those working and paying into it we’ll see some appreciation for the lifeblood of our land–the humble worker with a family to feed.