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Isn't this just a "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" rebuttal?

• leereeves 10y ago
  It sounded like "if you aren't breaking the law, you have nothing to fear". I'm not saying that's true, or not. I don't know. How many people have been incorrectly detained or deported by Arpaio?
  • pyre 10y ago
    I'd say that dealing with Arpaio and worrying about treatment as a minority are not necessarily intertwined issues. Arpaio's office isn't the only law enforcement outfit operating in the area. He's just at the county-level. You still have city- and state-level (?)[1] law enforcement plus border patrol. [1] I'm not specifically sure how AZ works this -- e.g. California has "highway patrol" but Michigan has "state police".
    • leereeves 10y ago
      That probably has more to do with location than politics. I've seen more Border Patrol in San Diego than in Phoenix. And Phoenix is not within 100 miles of the border, while San Francisco is (the border includes the oceans), so Phoenix may actually have a theoretical advantage there. https://www.aclu.org/constitution-100-mile-border-zone https://www.aclu.org/constitution-100-mile-border-zone