we can all guess why the police chose to stop gabino and marta. profiling hispanics and immigrants is the most efficient way to get someone deported. but you can't tell if someone is undocumented by the way they look or dress or where they live. in chicago, a puerto rican constituent of mine was detained for five days under suspicion of being undocumented. indeed, sadly, senators, there are hundreds if not thousands of cases of unlawfully detained u.s. citizens and legal residents in the united states each year in violation of their constitutional rights. some of them have even been deported and then been brought pack to the united states of america. that's not an old story, that's a story of today. the federal government took a step in the right direction when it legally challenged the show me your papers law in alabama, south carolina, and arizona, because the state laws are unconstitutional and interfere with the federal government's authorities to set and enforce immigration policy. but it makes no sense to file suit against unconstitutional l