Last Call

Colonel Mustard argues that liberals think all immigration laws are racist.

Laws aren't racist.  The people who selectively choose to enforce them, or to attempt to enforce them, only on specific groups of people based on prejudicial criteria or personal bias on the other hand...

That's kind of a problem.  I've actually got a question for the guy since he's a law professor and all:  what's the legal definition of "reasonable suspicion that somebody is in the country illegally", and how do you consistently enforce that?  Should Arizona, say, put up random citizenship checkpoints the way police check license and registration at sobriety checkpoints?  I don't think the law is racist.  I think the law fails the void for vagueness test based on the lack of definition of "reasonable suspicion that somebody is in the country illegally", is therefore functionally unenforceable, and therefore a really craptastic law that's a minefield for police in Arizona.

I do think the law is mean-spirited, invasive, and unconstitutional.  Laws aren't racist.  People who write them and enforce them selectively sometimes can be.