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Profiling

Dear Editor,

Considerable comments have been made about Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law. 70 percent of the State’s residents and 100 percent of the police support it. The liberals and most of the offenders call it profiling and believe that it should not be used.

How, then, can you enforce antiterrorism and immigration laws? Can anyone come up with a better solution?

If, for example members of certain ethnic group are known for their proclivity for suicide bombings and targeting of innocents, why shouldn’t the authorities have the ability to question individuals belonging to these specific groups?

If being in this country is illegal, why should the police be denied the authority to question individuals belonging to ethnic groups who compose the vast majority of violators?

All members of the aforementioned ‘groups’ are not illegal’s and terrorists, but the only way to find out is to ask and investigate.

There is a big difference between racial and ethnic bias and profiling. The former is prejudice and the latter good investigative work.

William J. Patsche

St. Clairsville

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