Quote:I hear ya. But your missing my point. A criminal alien includes undocumented workers in the ultra conservative vocabulary.


Which leads back to my point. We then become a papers please society for a particular group with a certain melanin configuration...


I mean it's right there in his speech on Wednesday night.

 

I can't speak for how any one person defines criminal alien.  I can only speak for its actually definition.  The only undocumented workers who have committed a crime are the ones who intentionally entered into the United States by fraud or the ones who never presented themselves for inspection.  The vast majority came over on valid visas and overstayed, which isn't criminal.  

 

We don't even have anywhere near the resources to deport all the illegals we encounter currently, let alone if we became a "Papers please," society.  The constitution isn't just suddenly bypassed because we begin enforcing immigration laws.  There is still the 4th Amendment.  

 

A latino person can't just be pulled over for no reason by law enforcement. A latino person isn't compelled to answer any of a law enforcement officers questions if he is pulled over.  It's no different than if a cop asks you if you've had anything to drink or where you are coming/going.

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