TheRealMafoo on 28 April 2010
| CommonMan said: Indeed cops should be able to ask the question, my concern becomes when they ask the question. If a person is doing something wrong, and the cops catch them, well of course they should present some kind of ID. If they are being questioned because their skin is too brown or because they have an accent, to me that is wrong. What I need to know is what is the consequence of immigration? I hear a lot of "they take all of our jobs!" but that was said of the Irish, and the Chinese before them, and the Germans before them. These spasms of anti-immigration feelings seem to happen in cycles and none of the floods of immigration have ever destroyed this country. I don't understand why our country of 350,000,000 people can't handle a larger population when our country is roughly the same size as China which has 4x the population and not nearly as developed an infrastructure. I'm not saying that unchecked immigration is a good idea, I've just never undersood on a macro scale what horrors come along with a more lax immigration system. |
No one is talking about immigration. We are talking about people breaking the law.
thousands of mexicans enter this country legally to work, and I think that's great. But we are a country of laws. If you break one, you need to be punished, even if the law is stupid (like pot being illegal).
Telling the cops they are now allowed to ask someone if they are breaking a law if they look like they are breaking the law, is stupid. Very stupid.
