Profiling Quotes
This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were relaeased. Nixon tended to have the worst stereotyped view of all minority groups.
The Congressman was a rabid foe of immigration in general and possible illegal immigration in particular (See {614687}). As his colleagues were trying to improve the methods of identifying illegal workers at the job hiring stage, they were very concerned that law enforcment and some employers would make judgments about the likely criminal status of a person based on his/her ethnicity, race or other general superficial characteristics.
Two weeks into Trump's Presidency, he issued Executive Order banning Muslims from 7 different Islamic countries fulfill a campaign promise that Trump would not allow Muslims into the country using the rational that they were a danger to Americans. One of the "dangerous" travelers was a 5 year old by who had been sent to join relatives in America. Spicer was asked why this child had been detained.
He is one of 4 Muslim Members of Parliament.
The police knew she was a leftist but most didn’t really understand what that meant. In those days, police were not very well educated and many had no more than a few grades of elementary school. They were assigned to keep order at her public speeches (where there were sometimes protestors threatening violence), but the police would often erroneously assume that something she would say was illegal—freedom of speech was not what it is today. She was quite used to the harassment. Most police at the beginning of the 21st century are still generally undereducated with only a small minority being college graduates.
