"It's not MY problem" --- Interesting interview, thanks Christian. The expression 'It's not my problem' signals the drawing boundaries between YOUR problem and MY safe ground - usually characterised by integrity and right-mindedness. In this case he's drawing boundary between the interviewer's concern with racial profiling and his own supposedly colour-blind application of the law to any wrong doing. 1m 20 seconds: 'A lot of the people come from Mexico and they come here illegally, it's not MY problem, so we're just enforcing all the laws and we're going to continue to do so..'

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu