Reply #5: Look at it this way

[lbrtbell]

I've never had a drop of alcohol in my life, yet if I drive past a police checkpoint, I can be stopped to see if I'm driving while drunk. Have I done something to make me a suspect? No. Am I being "profiled" because I'm out on New Year's Eve and I happen to be driving? Yes.

Also, if I drive to California, my car will be stopped at the state border so the authorities can look over my car and make sure I'm not transporting produce that might carry insects that could harm California's crops.

Going by what the Obama administration is arguing here, the local cops shouldn't be allowed to stop me, because the feds have authority over everything, and the Constitution prohibits illegal search. They have no right to search my car for fruit!! Damned profiling Nazis, thinking that everybody who isn't from California is carrying fruit in the back seat!!

The point is, if we're allowed to be randomly stopped to see if we're drunk, or even transporting fruit, why the hell shouldn't people be randomly stopped to see if they're here illegally? (And before anyone claims I've never known racial prejudice, I have very dark hair/eyes and am mistaken for being Hispanic if I happen to get suntanned.)

Anytime you're in a country that's not your own, even if traveling for pleasure, you ALWAYS keep your passport with you, no matter what race you are. So if you're randomly stopped in a place like Arizona, and have legit ID, it's not a problem, is it?

If I get stopped, I have a driver's license and SS# to prove I'm a citizen. Workers who are here legally have proper ID. The only people who would object to showing their ID are people who don't have it, i.e., people here illegally.

I welcome legal immigrants from any country. But if your first act in this country is to break the law by coming here illegally...that's kind of like breaking into someone's house and expecting them to let you stay there as a houseguest.