Posted by
Georgiaboy on Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:20:29 PM
A town near where I live has provoked an interesting argument about illegal aliens. The tiny town of Pendergrass, Georgia has about 2 miles of highway 129, a 4 lane divided highway, in its city limits. It cracks down pretty hard on speeding and makes a ton of money in fines. But, it came out that over the last few weeks and months a huge percentage of the motorists arrested are Hispanic--more than 70%. The local newspaper cried foul, saying the the PD was racially profiling. The local populace took a different view, the letters to the editors were very supportive of the Pendergrass police. Their comments ranged from anger that all the illegal hispanics were driving up their insurance by driving without insurance, to pointing out that hispanics are getting arrested because they drive illegally. When generally law abiding citizens get pulled over, they get a ticket; when Hispanics get pulled over for speeding, they get arrested because they often don't have driver's licenses or insurance. Just a micro picture of a wider national dynamic, I think; the elites wringing their hands about how to treat all the illegals nicely, while the average person, frankly, doesn't give a $%#*. Washington, take note.