Lawyer: Border Patrol should be investigated for racial profiling

[Kadie]

Lawyer: Border Patrol should be investigated for racial profiling
By ANDREW GLAZER, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, May 31, 2006


(05-31) 17:08 PDT Los Angeles (AP) --


A civil rights lawyer on Wednesday demanded authorities investigate a roundup of hundreds of undocumented immigrants in what he called a desert dragnet based on racial profiling.

In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, attorney Luis Carrillo claimed U.S. Border Patrol agents only pulled over people with brown skin in the five-day operation known as "Operation Desert Denial."

More than 600 undocumented immigrants were detained from May 19 to May 24 along Interstate 40 near Barstow.

No light-skinned people were detained, Carrillo said.

"They gave people with blue eyes and light skin a free pass," he said.

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[Selatius]

1. He could win his case and the border patrol will stop everyone

In which case, we'd need even more border patrol agents to handle the increased workload. We never had enough to begin with.

[FreakinDJ]

3. I thought SCOTUS allowed the racial profiling

Wasn't this challenged before when they started profiling Muslims after 911

[Terran1212]

2. Attacking the immigrants themselves just isn't solving anything

There's serious global problems causing this immigration problem, and this witch hunt against poor people crossing the border is just going to make things even worse for everyone involved.