• tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    If there are people that would fall into points 2 and 3 but are in non-Hispanic gangs and because of that alone they aren’t labeled as terrorists in the same way, how would this be constitutional? Not that the politicians proposing it care, but it seems like it would be struck down, or they would have to amend it to remove that sort of language. Maybe if they were claiming it was combating Mexican cartels or other criminal foreign nationals with a qualifier about nation of origin, they could try to argue that wasn’t racist.

    Edit: Ah I didn’t read the article, as another commenter pointed out:

    He said: “I apologize for using the word Hispanic, but I was not wrong. Again, these are Hispanic. Reality is they are Hispanic. There’s nothing to be ashamed with.”

    Humphrey said he will go back to the bill and amend the language from “Hispanic” to “undocumented here illegally, or something like that”.