A lot of hysterical finger pointing and bellowing have been done about the potential practice of "racial profiling" as Arizona seeks to secure her border with Mexico.
Consider this hypothetical case:
Pretend, for a moment, that you are a private border security guard working for a company called TOTALSECURE. Your company, TOTALSECURE, has just been awarded a contract by the state of Arizona to guard the entire Arizona-Mexican border. The goal stated in the contract is to reduce successful illegal border crossings into Arizona by 50%. The contract is performance based which means TOTALSECURE does not get paid a dime if they do not meet the objective of 50% reduction in successful illegal border crossings.
As a border security guard for TOTALSECURE you will earn minimum wage. But for every illegal immigrant you arrest and who is confirmed to be illegal by the law, you will receive a $1,000 bonus. On the other hand every person you arrest as an illegal immigrant who is later shown to be here legally, will cost you $2,000.
After receiving your assigned territory and equipment, you request to see pictures of the previous 1,000 illegal immigrants arrested in your territory. You are shown a book containing pictures of 911 Mexicans, 21 Colombians, 13 El Salvadorans, 11 people from Afganistan, 8 Iranians, 6 Egyptians, 4 Sudanese, 11 Jamaicans, 10 Cubans, and 5 Caucasians of undetermined citizenship.
On your first day of the job, who would you be looking for?
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