Raymond Caballero: Arizona's immigration law: Dividing us as a nation

Oregonian:

The framers of the constitution “conferred against the government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.”

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that in 1928. If you wanted to summarize our constitution in one sentence or describe the liberty you should feel in the United States, that’s it. It’s the belief that everyone, equally, can walk down any street or sit at home and be left alone. You expect that protective shell to be disturbed only when there is probable cause to believe that you have violated the law. Racial profiling creates a double standard and is a serious violation of these fundamental principles. The Fourth Amendment is not a sliding scale in which your rights depend on your race or the per capita income of your surroundings.

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