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Russell Pearce: “It prohibits racial profiling in this bill, which, by the way, the federal law doesn't.”

On the recordJuly 29, 2010
It prohibits racial profiling in this bill, which, by the way, the federal law doesn't.
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Russell Pearce

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Pearce asserts that the immigration law he sponsored includes provisions against racial profiling.

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