All It Takes Is One Case...

[Cochise]

You know, for better or worse, most people are responsive to personal anecdotes. If there was one person mistakenly executed, there would be public outrage and a demand that a moratorium be placed on the death penalty, even if more lives would ultimately be saved through its continued application. That’s why I’m seriously, honestly saying that it’s socially and politically unwise to promote legislation that may possibly target Indian-looking people with Spanish surnames that might not be prone to carry government-issued ID. Before the petty nationalism ever began, Arizona was populated by a certain type of people, and it remains a state strongly populated by a certain type of people:

All of that is semi-autonomous territory, and they’re not enforcing state laws so much as selectively enforcing federal laws. But let’s say an O’odham from Pima County gets picked up, mistaken for an illegal or undocumented immigrant, and deported. The sheer audacity of treating the region’s oldest residents that way would draw anger from everyone. I’m whipping this horse beyond death, but it’s important.

 

[jamesrage]

You know, for better or worse, most people are responsive to personal anecdotes. If there was one person mistakenly executed, there would be public outrage and a demand that a moratorium be placed on the death penalty, even if more lives would ultimately be saved through its continued application.

So you are suggesting that if someone accidentally gets deported then Arizona will stop their law? You do realize that Arizona's anti-illegal immigration law mirror's the federal law and you do realize that there a few who allegedly get accidentally deported?

That’s why I’m seriously, honestly saying that it’s socially and politically unwise to promote legislation that may possibly target Indian-looking people with Spanish surnames that might not be prone to carry government-issued ID. Before the petty nationalism ever began, Arizona was populated by a certain type of people, and it remains a state strongly populated by a certain type of people:

All of that is semi-autonomous territory, and they’re not enforcing state laws so much as selectively enforcing federal laws. But let’s say an O’odham from Pima County gets picked up, mistaken for an illegal or undocumented immigrant, and deported. The sheer audacity of treating the region’s oldest residents that way would draw anger from everyone. I’m whipping this horse beyond death, but it’s important.

If the law racially profiles please point to where it does that.

Pdf : Revised Arizona immigration enforcement bill: full text

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.town...11df-9876-001cc4c03286.pdf.pdf?_dc=1272645050

 

[RightinNYC]

You know, for better or worse, most people are responsive to personal anecdotes. If there was one person mistakenly executed, there would be public outrage and a demand that a moratorium be placed on the death penalty, even if more lives would ultimately be saved through its continued application. That’s why I’m seriously, honestly saying that it’s socially and politically unwise to promote legislation that may possibly target Indian-looking people with Spanish surnames that might not be prone to carry government-issued ID. Before the petty nationalism ever began, Arizona was populated by a certain type of people, and it remains a state strongly populated by a certain type of people:

All of that is semi-autonomous territory, and they’re not enforcing state laws so much as selectively enforcing federal laws. But let’s say an O’odham from Pima County gets picked up, mistaken for an illegal or undocumented immigrant, and deported. The sheer audacity of treating the region’s oldest residents that way would draw anger from everyone. I’m whipping this horse beyond death, but it’s important.

Because the actual decision on whether to deport someone rests entirely with the federal government, I don't see how an error like you describe would be AZ's fault.