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Jon Stewart's Advice to Those Who Threaten Death in the Name of Religion

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines4/23/2010 1:59:18 pm PDT

re: #261 cliffster

Another good question. You’re looking very brown today, son. Have you been drinking? Jumping the border illegally?

I strongly favor closing the border and enforcing the law, regardless of what it does to the bottom line of the US Chamber of Commerce membership. Even so, this Arizona law is a very bad idea for the very reason you suggest.

My late stepfather and I used to go to work at about the same time of day (6AM) and from the same neighborhood (our homes were less than a mile apart). He was stopped by the police at least once a month and sometimes a lot more than that. I was never stopped at all. He was Hispanic, and looked it. I am mostly Scots-Irish and look it. The cops never asked him, “What are you doing in an upscale white neighborhood this time of day?” but that was pretty obviously the reason for their interest in him. He was a famous Tex-Mex chef, btw, and the author of a number of related cookbooks.