Strange (and dangerous?) Immigration law.

[Slimebeast]

I don't understand the controversy because the police and other authorities do the same thing all the time already.

Let's say cops decide to look for drugs at a club. They wait outside and stop customers based on "reasonable suspicion". They won't pick people just randomly, they will actively choose people with typical appearance associated with the use of drugs, based on the cop's own (subjective) experience. They question and possibly frisk the persons, but that's not the same thing as arresting a person.

If you go through that customs thingy in airports - which people are the customs guys more likely to check for drugs and other stuff? They don't do it randomly, they choose people based on lots of different characteristics no matter if it's politically correct or not.

Same with asylum seekers (who in the EU every nation seeks to stop even before they have a chance to enter your country - meaning at the airport). They check the papers based on the ethnical looks of individuals. A Swedish looking person will never be asked to show his Visa when entering through any Western European airport.

Same with Mafoo's example of airports and the search for terrorists. Why would they start searching the bags of an ordinary looking family with 2 parents, 2 kids and a dog?

The proposal says "would require police to stop anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant." and "the police must stop people on “reasonable suspicion”".

This is ordinary everyday police work and has nothing to do with discrimination. It's a certain infringement on your personal integrity, but that's how the police must work - to check lots of innocent people to find just a few criminals.