When "security" and "discrimination" meet.

Italy's fingerprinting of members of the country's Roma community is a direct act of racial discrimination, the European Parliament has said. (BBC News)

I find this statement particularly disturbing, "But former EU Justice Commissioner and current Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini defended the measure which he said 'does not target ethnic groups and is not inspired by racism but by the elementary need to identify anyone who does not have a valid document'."

Now, the question I have to ask, is how long before this is the justification in Prince William County, or any other part of the United States?