New York Times Blows Alabama Law’s “Racial Profiling” Argument Out of the Water



In their never ending zeal to attack Alabama’s immigration enforcement law, H.B. 56, the editorial page of The New York Times has inadvertently discredited one of the illegal alien advocacy movement’s favorite arguments against the law. Ever since the Alabama legislature approved H.B. 56 there have been dire predictions that the law would lead to racial profiling of Hispanics.

In yet another editorial attacking the law, “Alabama’s Shame (Cont.),” the pontificators at the Old Gray Lady zero-in on a single case that they believe illustrates the law’s overreach. A visiting Mercedes-Benz executive was pulled over by a Tuscaloosa police officer for a traffic violation. Since the German national did not have his driver’s license or other documents with him at the time, he was detained under H.B. 56 until matters were straightened out.

Okay, so we now know that H.B. 56 does not lead to racial profiling. So what does it lead to? Well, it apparently leads to more jobs for American workers and lower unemployment rates. New data show that during the first month that H.B. 56 was in place, unemployment in Alabama declined by half a percentage point, and in some areas of the state unemployment fell by a full percentage point. Critics of the law were wrong again: Americans jumped at the chance to fill jobs vacated by illegal aliens whose response to H.B. 56 was to vacate Alabama.

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Ira joined the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) in 1986 with experience as a journalist, professor of journalism, special assistant to Gov. Richard Lamm (Colorado), and press secretary of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. His columns have appeared in National Review, LA Times, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, and more. He is an experienced TV and radio commentator.

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    THERE’S NOTHING MORE RACIST OR VIOLENT THAN LA RAZA “THE RACE”.

    THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN AMERICA, IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA.

    THE MEXICAN SUPREMACY PARTY.

    IT IS FUNDED BY WALL ST. AND ITS AGENDA ADVANCED BY THOSE THAT BENEFIT FROM THE BILLIONS IN DEPRESSED WAGES THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION COSTS.

    BUT WHO PAYS FOR THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE, OR CRIME TIDAL WAVE? MEXICO? WE ARE MEXICO’S “FREE” PRISONS AND JAILS SYSTEM.

    http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-raza-beheadings-14-year-old-mexican.html

    FOURTEEN YEAR OLD MEXICAN BOY BEHEADS FOUR NARCOMEX RIVALS –
    Youth sought in Mexico killings arrested

    Edgar Jimenez Lugo, who authorities said was born in San Diego, was wanted on suspicion of killing rivals — allegedly beheading some — as part of his work for a violent drug-trafficking cartel.
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    December 03, 2010|By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times

    Reporting from Mexico City — A 14-year-old boy who says he’s been killing or working for drug cartels since he was 11 has been captured by the Mexican army after a monthlong hunt, authorities said Friday.

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    LET ME GIVE YOU A REAL PROFILE!

    THE STAGGERING LA RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE – TERRORISM ON, OVER AND UNDER OUR OPEN & UNDEFENDED BORDERS!

    http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-raza-beheadings-14-year-old-mexican.html

    FOURTEEN YEAR OLD MEXICAN BOY BEHEADS FOUR NARCOMEX RIVALS –
    Youth sought in Mexico killings arrested

    Edgar Jimenez Lugo, who authorities said was born in San Diego, was wanted on suspicion of killing rivals — allegedly beheading some — as part of his work for a violent drug-trafficking cartel.
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    December 03, 2010|By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times

    Reporting from Mexico City — A 14-year-old boy who says he’s been killing or working for drug cartels since he was 11 has been captured by the Mexican army after a monthlong hunt, authorities said Friday.