Santorum:
http://www.gop12.com/2010/04/santorum-defends-az-law-they-are-what.html
"If the people committing crimes look a certain way, you're foolish not to include that as part of your police work, and you know, that's not profiling, that is doing your job and understanding what's happening.
The fact of the matter is the vast majority of people crossing the border are Mexicans. That's just the reality. And if they were something else, we'd be profiling something else. But they are what they are." Is it any surprise that Rick Santorum was defeated 59-41 in Pennsylvania in his re-election bid of 2006?
He should be careful about profiling in principle because his ethnic group has been frequently portrayed in movies -- and I don't mean as artists of the High Renaissance.
This law is likely to promote crime by making illegal aliens more hostile to the police even when they are victims of crimes. Enforcement of immigration laws has never been a prerogative of state or local police.
I have no problem with the cops picking up criminal suspects in the normal course of law enforcement and then offering notification that a criminal suspect is possibly an illegal alien. Racial profiling for illegal aliens? Almost certainly unconstitutional.
