Immigration: Profiling

The case for profiling is unpopular, but when you look at the crowds that are advocating "comprehensive immigration reform" what do you see?  Hoards of brown skinned, Spanish speaking individuals.  Yes you will find a white-skinned minority amongst the crowd, but their numbers are few.  The link between illegal immigrants and racial appearance would seem to be obvious and logical.  When the majority of illegals entering the U.S. are coming from south of the border and are brown-skinned, Spanish speaking some profiling is the logical and sensible thing to do. 

If check points can be set up to check for drunken drivers and licenses, why not for citizenship status?  If you have legal status there is little inconvenience in "proving" citizenship status.  In fact showing citizenship would seem to be a patriotic duty.

The next question would seem obvious--if you don't profile how do you check for citizenship?  Those of Hispanic origin do not come up with solutions--other than making it legal to be illegal--a recourse which seems undesirable for many reasons.  Allowing 12 to 20 million illegal aliens to become citizens with the stroke of the pen is not the answer, for that would make a mockery of our immigration rules and put a burden on our economy.  Some proponents of amnesty point to taxes being payed by illegal aliens, but that just makes the point that to do so means they are stealing someones identity in order to hold a job.  If not they are being paid under the table and that is another "crime" being committed.  In fact the argument that illegal aliens are "poor law abiding persons" is untrue, for being here is illegal, living here is illegal, working here is illegal, accessing medical services for free is illegal, accessing our social security system is illegal, their children often join ethnic gangs, and the list goes on.   

So some profiling would seem desirable.