thedguy
rides with Rebecca Black.. in the back
While I'm completely against racial profiling, there are also other reasons to oppose the new Arizona law.
It will encourage mistreatment of workers. Illegal immigrants come to America, in part, because people are willing to hire them. Well now a sweatshop employer or an agricultural property-owner has no incentive whatsoever to follow OSHA regulations with illegal immigrant laborers. You can make them work as long hours as you want, for as little pay as you want, in as dangerous conditions as you want, and so long as it's still better than going back to Juarez, those illegal immigrants you're employing won't go to the authorities. Even if you don't care about the illegal immigrants themselves, we as a society don't want sweatshops and slave labor being perpetrated by American employers, do we?
This will effectively make it okay to commit crimes against illegal immigrants. Rapists will rape female illegal immigrants, because the crime victims won't contact law enforcement and risk deportation. Burglars and muggers will steal stuff from illegal immigrants, and the illegal immigrants won't go to the cops because they would then be deported. So, as a consequence, you're going to have American citizens running around committing all sorts of crimes and never being caught for it. That's going to have serious negative consequences on society.
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Playing devils advocate here.
That could have their desired effect of having scared Illegal's move away. Though I'm willing to bet it will probably just push them more into either Texas or California, rather than back into Mexico. With that being said, there are a LOT of Hispanics moving back to their home countries just because the work has gone away. When you can't afford your house, electric, gas, water bills, you start to do things like drain the pool and let the grass over grow a bit.