HUNT FOR ID FRAUD HITS LATINOS

New Sisyphus:

The Oregonian Engages in Self-Parody
Today's Oregonian greets us with a banner headline:

HUNT FOR ID FRAUD HITS LATINOS

Oregonian reporter--completely unbiased and quite professional, mind you--Esmerelda Bermudez reports the facts:

Workers at Oregon's Driver and Motor Vehicle Services have turned in nearly 200 people to police for suspicious documentation, an effort that overwhelmingly singled out Latinos.

This summer, the DMV changed a long-standing policy: Rather than simply refuse service to customers suspected of presenting phony or altered documents to obtain licenses or identification, employees began to alert police.

From June through August, 140 people were turned in to police -- roughly 94 percent of them with Latino names, according to DMV records obtained by The Oregonian.

Oh, no! You mean to say that enforcing the law resulted in revealing what everyone already knows, that the Latino "community" in Oregon is largely composed of people here illegally, using fraudulent documents to obtain government licenses and benefits? And that, by contrast, the European-American community is largely playing it straight and by the rules?

This must be stopped! Bring us banner headlines and graphics highlighting the obvious discriminatory effect of 94% of such names being Latino! We must at all costs stop this bigotry!