Yes. It is remarkably stupid to assume judges, juries, officers, detectives, political action groups and politicians will all hop on the "lets be racist fuckwits" wagon just because of your bias against the police.
Hey, what do you call assuming someone behaves in a certain way just because of who they are or what they do?
Profiling! The same mortal sin you presume the police officers will commit, you yourself are committing against them! What a glorious hypocritical discussion we're all having here. Lets keep this thread unlocked for shameless and self-rightous bigotry.
I'll make the same assumption about a *portion* of said law enforcement because I work with them. Some are blatantly racist. That said, others are Hispanic themselves. Actually, a LOT of law enforcement personnel on the border are Hispanic. I mean, two of the major job requirements are that you live in the area, and speak at least passable Spanish.
If people want to come here and work and pay taxes, I say let 'em in, just get a basic cataloguing. Americans tend to forget--when most of our ancestors came here, there were no reams of paperwork to fill out, no hundreds of dollars worth of clerical fees and licenses to pay, no lengthy background check. My great-grandparents got off the boat, gave their names in a barely understandable dialect of German, said what country they were from, and what state they were headed for. That was IT.
I think the immigration issue really should take a backseat to the narco-war issue. That shit is starting to make the Taliban look like a British polo club by comparison. They found a handful of corpses in some caves near Cancun the other day, with their f**king
hearts cut out and "Z" (probably for "Zetas") carved into their stomachs. I know Federal agents who have flatly said that they would take a year's detail in Baghdad over a month in Juarez.