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Soft focus on hidden-camera video of illegal aliens

A online video showing hidden-camera footage of groups of illegal immigrants walking through the Arizona desert is creating a stir online and in the media. But there’s been little focus on the producer, an anti-immigration group from Washington, D.C.... Read more»

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Jul 22, 2010, 9:15 am
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Why doesn’t some “mainstream” news organization duplicate the hidden camera project?  See how the “results” compare? 
Simply throwing data from one agenda-driven group against the data of another agenda-driven group might not result in anything more “accurate” than “the ‘truth’ lies somewhere between the two.”

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Jul 22, 2010, 9:18 am
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Perhaps I should have chosen “rests” rather than “lies” when commenting on something relating to news emdia.  :):)

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Jul 22, 2010, 9:20 am
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make that “media.”

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Jul 22, 2010, 3:50 pm
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Not sure what the criticism of the hidden cameras video is all about.  It is not as if the activities you report being portrayed are unusual or unexpected.  Compared to your own data, 850 in 60 days is not a big number. 
On S. B. 1070, what is all this nonsense about racial profiling?  Law enforcement in AZ (and any other state) have plenty of laws to use to engage in racial profiling if that is what they want to do.  Those raising the profiling issue need to explain to the rest of us how provisions in the 1070 law would make racial profiling more likely.  It seems to me, the basis of the racial profiling argument is nothing more than the recognition that because of the proximity of the Mexican border, the likelihoood of those identified as illegal aliens under 1070 will more probably be Hispanic, the old post hoc ergo propto hoc bogus logic.  On the other hand, do the left wing activists raising the racial profiling bug-a-boo have any evidence that AZ law enforcement personnel engage in racial profiling?  If they do, that is a separate issue that needs to be addressed.

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