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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 08:34 PM
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Yeah, I know that I don't look like a Mexican
Edited on Wed Apr-28-10 08:39 PM by MrScorpio
But, let's say that I walked around Maricopa County while wearing one of these:



I wonder how long it would take one of Sheriff Joe's gang to show up and ask me for my papers?

Or, are they only concerned about Mexican "illegals"?

On edit:

Do you think one will be better bait?


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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 08:41 PM
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1. Which reminds me of a phrase from the liner notes of a Richard and Mimi Farina album
Where Richard(who, like Mimi, was partly Hispanic)remembered "getting turned away from lunch counters for getting a little TOO brown in the sun".
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oneshooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 08:42 PM
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2.  Have you read the law? n/t
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 08:45 PM
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4. So you're saying that it's not good enough...
Edited on Wed Apr-28-10 08:48 PM by MrScorpio
To give some yahoo with a badge a "reasonable suspicion" about by immigration status?

I wonder.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 08:45 PM
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6. Why don't you edjumakate us, Tex?
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 09:03 PM
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8. Your name says it all. NT
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 08:44 PM
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3. Reposting, in case you missed it the first time around...
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 08:45 PM
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5. Ooooo, Lemme look! nt
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 08:51 PM
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7. How many is a Brazilian?
;-)
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 10:15 PM
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10. Less than a Gazillion - me thinks nt/
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 10:14 PM
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9. Portuguese
Mom was born in Rio. Everyone takes me for Italian :shrug:

Well, maybe it's the way I talk. Born and raised in NJ.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 10:22 PM
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11. Pfft. I'm sure they'd pull you over just on "general principles".
:P
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-10 10:51 PM
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12. Hang out in Guadalupe, you will get a nice greeting from his deputies..
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