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Legal Racial Profiling

By Neil Shous, Esq.

Racial profiling is once again in the headlines. Not like it?s really ever gone away, but Arizona?s new legislation certainly catapults it back into the limelight. In the broadest and strictest illegal immigration law this nation has ever seen, the police will basically have the power to legally stop and detain anyone they feel may be in the state illegally. And immigrants who fail to carry their immigration papers with them will face misdemeanor prosecution. Although law makers ?claim? that racial profiling will not be tolerated, this statement might as well be made with a ?nudge/nudge, wink/wink? since this new law essentially authorizes cops to do just that. Last weekend, Californians expressed their outrage with the law with one of the largest demonstrations in the nation...continue to full post

Full post as published by California Criminal Defense Blog on May 07, 2010 (boomark / email).