[quote=@mdk]

If you had to guess, what percentage of illegal immigrants in the state of Arizona are Latino? Ballpark.[/quote]

About eighty percent, but that's not the point. Joe and his appointed deputies were absolutely fully one hundred percent racial profiling. Under the training that Immigration and Customs Enforcement supplied deputies were told that Mexican ancestry was [i]one[/i] factor among others that they could use without violating the legal requirements. Then ICE revoked this from the MCSO and so they started their own program and detained people that they couldn't actually arrest and incorrectly assumed that simply being an alien was a federal crime. The MCSO has no authority to detain people based purely on suspicion (that they're Hispanic) and nothing else. It isn't automatically a federal crime to be in the country without authorization hence the whole unreasonable search and seizure that was going on. 

Even when using the smuggling defense someone being an illegal doesn't violate Arizona criminal law. And when deputies were extending traffic stops to 'investigate' the occupants of a vehicle other than the driver beyond reasonable suspicion that's also a violation of the Fourth Amendment. 

MCSO has been doing immigration and immigration–related enforcement operations even when it had no accurate legal basis for doing so.

[quote]I don't think there is any way to enforce immigration law in that state which [i]wouldn't[/i] look racist. I am absolutely against racism, but absolutely FOR immigration law. The order Joe violated was [i]not[/i] "stop arresting brown people," it was "stop enforcing the law."[/quote]

It was also "Hey maybe stop violating the Fourth Amendment we've told you about this before." 

[quote]I appreciate that yes, it looks pretty ludicrously racist on the surface but like I said [i]I don't know how you could do that job and NOT look racist.[/i] I mean, short of building a wall.
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Having probable cause beyond just "It's a car full of Hispanics in a county that is 31 percent Hispanic" is a good start.