Does crackdown cross line? – Arizona efforts stir racial profiling claims From: chicagotribune.com
Tagged: Arizona, border, deportation, Maricopa CountyPosted on: May 27th, 2008
The newest tactic in America’s quickening effort to gain control of its porous southern border starts with a cracked windshield, a broken taillight or even a failure to signal a right or left turn.
That’s all the probable cause sheriff’s deputies here in sprawling Maricopa County say they need to pull over a vehicle they suspect might be carrying illegal immigrants.
If the driver or the passengers fail to produce a U.S. driver’s license or a proper Immigration visa, if they speak only Spanish, or if they can’t otherwise convince the officer they are in the country legally, they are likely to be arrested, jailed and handed off to federal Immigration authorities for deportation”*
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