Friday, April 23, 2010

Racial Profiling?

So Arizona has passed a law which will take affect tomorrow that gives the State Law Enforcement the opportunity to arrest illegals, charge them with crimes and prosecute them. So, who is screaming "RACIAL PROFILING!!" ? It wouldn't be the illegal hispanics would it?
So what is all the hoop-La about? The haters are screaming that this makes illegally crossing our boarder between Mexico and Arizon a felony. Guess what, folks. It's been a felony since the 1920's. But let's look at the history.

The first attempt at immigration contol occured in 1796. The law was ineffective since it only covered entry through certain states.

The first real law was passed as the Immigration Act of 1921 making it a Federal Felony.

Then the law was broadened and revised under the federal Immigration and Nationalization Act of 1952.

The law was further revised by the Immigration and Contol Act of 1995. This law not only tightened up the law but created the INS.

So by my arithmetic, illegal immigration has been a felony for almost 90 years.

But there's more to the history. The Federal Acts give the power to regulate illegal immigration to the INS and Border Patrol who acted as the police for INS. That was great until the second GW Bush term. In 1996 the INS estimated 6 million illegals in the U.S. Under Bush Homeland Security was formed. One of the departments taken over by Homeland Security was the US Border Patrol. In their wisdom, Homeland Security deleted all but about 100 Border Patrol positions leaving very few to patrol 1700 miles of border. In 2009 INS estimated 22 million illegals in this country.

Arizona has simply taken up the slake and filled the hole left by Homeland Security. Now tell me why this is racial profiling?

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