Yup. Had a feeling something like this would happen.
I have no problem with exercising the law and doing something about the illegal immigration issue. Heck, sometimes I can only shake my head at much of the opposition: I covered a town hall forum about the economics of illegal immigration, and a bunch of crowd members got up in an uproar when the keynote speaker -- an expert on economics -- used the term "illegal immigrants" instead of "undocumented workers," and constantly called for the guy to sit down and let the next speaker -- a member of a the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada -- speak, despite the fact that the expert was the
keynote speaker that was
advertised in all the forum's announcements and press releases. What's more, the Progressive Leadership speaker strongly alleged that the expert's group, the
Center for Immigration Studies, had ties to white supremacy, despite the fact that the group's leader is
Hispanic.
(People on the other side were just as bad, though: trying to shout down the Progressive Leadership speaker when he was citing studies that downplayed the effects of immigration that the expert was talking about. Honestly, I just left the forum with the feeling that we're all doomed to never solve the issue.)
But despite all this, when a law starts putting U.S. citizens in danger of something like this simply because of his race (and I can't think of any other reason that this man was detained), it needs to be adjusted or abolished. Simple as that.
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