Holder: US to watch Arizona for racial profiling-hasn't ruled out filing a second lawsuit

[kpete]

Source: MSNBC

Holder: US to watch Arizona for racial profiling

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department hasn't ruled out filing a second lawsuit challenging Arizona's immigration law if evidence shows racial profiling at work, Attorney General Eric Holder says.

The Obama administration sued Arizona last week, arguing that the state is impinging on federal responsibilities for dealing with immigration. The state law requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person's immigration status if there's reasonable suspicion the person is in the country illegally. It also requires legal immigrants to carry their immigration documents.

The suit didn't deal with concerns about racial profiling so that it could focus on the most serious problem with the law, Holder said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation." In six months or a year, his department might look into the law's impact on racial profiling, he said.

"If that was the case, we would have the tools and we would bring suit on that basis," Holder said.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who defends the state immigration law as constitutional, said she believes federal officials would have included racial profiling in the suit if they thought it was an issue.



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[laughingliberal]

1. K & R nt

[COLGATE4]

2. Accidental Governor Jan Brewer

couldn't find her ass with both hands and a flashlight.

[AlphaCentauri]

3. Why not embrace immigration reform?

racial profiling is happening everywhere there is a hispanic

[davidinalameda]

4. there is?

and you do realize you're quoting a fascist in your sig line?

[boppers]

5. Dr. Seuss had some issues, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss#Political_views

[davidinalameda]

9. he was a fascist?

didn't see that in the wikipedia article

[boppers]

13. He just supported putting U.S. citizens in U.S. concentration camps.

What's the appropriate political label for that?

[davidinalameda]

14. so did FDR and a lot of Americans

were they fascists too?

[boppers]

6. You're from West Virgina, right?

http://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/taking-west-virginias-racial-profiling-problem

Is there another state you'd like me to google?

[AlphaCentauri]

7. The "shirtless ones" were not the brownshirts of Hitler

low-income and working class Argentines were referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones"

[davidinalameda]

10. did they support Peron?

then they supported fascism

[AlphaCentauri]

16. I see, Nixon and Kissinger were communist

as Nixon, Kissinger and Mao got along

[EFerrari]

11. You surely have some kind of evidence for calling Eva Peron

who was a supporter of Israel, a fascist.

[timo]

12. thats dumb

here where I live its 99 percent hispanic, I dont think we have a white cop on the force.....think before you speak!!!

[AlphaCentauri]

17. Are they picking on Blacks and Whites asking for their papers?

[timo]

18. nope

we dont have but a handful of whites and even less blacks..like I said 99% hispanc

[AlphaCentauri]

19. then?

[timo]

20. well

you said everywhere there is a hispanic there is racial profiling and we dont have that shit here!!

[Jefferson23]

8. Good! n/t

[Romulox]

15. Does not compute; law has not gone into effect, and likely will not. nt