There’s more right-wing hate emanating from Arizona. Nasty state authorities are actually enforcing the law with respect to illegal immigrants. Can you believe it? And this just in: a police deputy shot an suspected illegal immigrant in the stomach with an AK47 . . . . no, wait, I got that backwards. It turns out that the suspected illegal immigrant — one of a gang hauling bales of marijuana along a smuggling corridor in Arizona — was toting the AK47. It was he who shot the deputy sheriff, not the other way around. Silly me. How did I get that wrong? “The shooting,” one news report observes, “came as Arizona grapples with backlash over its enactment of a tough new law targeting illegal immigration. Civil rights activists, concerned the law will lead to racial profiling, have called for a boycott of the state.”
What’s wrong with that last sentence? In Arizona, there is a problem — a big problem — with illegal immigration from Mexico. From Mexico, note. So how would you deal with the problem without profiling? The ask the question, in any sane universe (but not, apparently, in this universe) is to answer it. Andy McCarthy has a definitive reflection on the whole “racial profiling” meme:
The severe economic, social and criminal problem Arizonans are dealing with is illegal immigration from Mexico. If you say our law must be “race-neutral”in dealing with a problem in which race (or ethnicity/natural-origin) is unavoidably central, that is tantamount to saying the law cannot deal with the problem. That’s ludicrous. It would mean we must either be vigilantes or resign ourselves to suicide.
So here are the choices: 1) apply the law in a rational manner; 2) abandon the rule of law and embrace vigilante justice; 3) capitulate to the forces of anarchy, i.e., commit “suicide.” Which do you favor?
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