The U.S. attorney for western Arkansas insists that the bust of a Mexican family for hiring unauthorized immigrants was not a product of racial profiling, merely part of a consistent pattern of targeting those who knowingly hire people who aren’t in the U.S. legally. That means, I guess, that the Anglo businesses in Arkansas that hire thousands and thousands of unauthorized workers are doing so unwittingly. Right?

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